Leeds Lit Fest 2020 Event Submissions Window Open!
Leeds Lit Fest is back – and it needs you! Following its inaugural event in March – the first citywide literature festival Leeds has ever had – Leeds Lit Fest 2020 will return on...
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Horror Out Loud with Lucie McKnight Hardy
In advance of our FrightFest@TheLeedsLibrary Horror Out Loud event on Saturday 26th October, we asked Lucie McKnight Hardy, whose stories also appear in Best of British Short Fiction and have also been published by...
The Power of the Personal by Northern Short Story Festival Workshop Leader Barney Bardsley
MEMOIR – or creative non-fiction – is enjoying a gathering popularity among contemporary readers. Why should that be? Because everyone loves a personal story, powerfully told. Despite the old-fashioned tinge of the word itself –...
Leeds Literature Shortlisted in Three Categories in the National Saboteur Awards 2019
After only its first year, Leeds Lit Fest has been shortlisted as Best Lit Fest in the Saboteur Awards 2019. Leeds writers are nominated in two other categories – Joe Williams for Best...
Our Fiona, shortlisted for a Yorkshire Women Volunteer Award
The Leeds Big Bookend is delighted to announce that our driving force, Fiona Gell, has been shortlisted for the Project Volunteer Award of the Year, organised by Yorkshire Women Volunteer Awards. She continues to...
Northern Short Story Festival 2019 Workshop Leader Courttia Newland Chooses His 3 Favourite Place-Centred Short Stories
A sense of place anchors a short story. Expertly created, a sense of location places our feet in the world of the short story, and makes the reader feel that they have really ‘been...
Northern Short Story Festival 2019 – Have You Got Your Tickets Yet?
We are thrilled with this year’s Northern Short Story Festival programme and tickets are going fast. Taking place on Friday 31st May – Sunday 2nd June, the fourth Northern Short Story Festival will be at...
David Peace Launches The First Ever Leeds Lit Fest on Monday!
Launching the first ever Leeds Lit Fest this Monday (18th) will be the internationally acclaimed Yorkshire-born writer David Peace. Named by Granta magazine in 2003 as one of twenty ‘Best of Young British Novelists’, he is the author of the...
What Leeds Means To Me by June Taylor and Ali Harper
Two Leeds authors, June Taylor and Ali Harper, reveal why they’ve chosen our city as a setting for their novels. June Taylor – Author of Keep Your Friends Close published by Harper Collins (Jan 2019). “I was...
The Northern Short Story Festival Academy Announces Support For 12 Yorkshire Writers
The Northern Short Story Festival Academy is delighted to announce that it will be supporting 12 short story writers from Yorkshire in 2019. The announcement came at a reception on Monday evening at the...
