The Leeds Big Bookend’s own Vicky Pointing was a Napkin Story winner with her flash fiction piece, ‘Neighbourhood Witch’. Neighbourhood Witch I’m all for integration, but really, this has gone too far. The zombies – […]
Following on from last Friday’s post, here is another winner from the Napkin Story Project by McBookishness. The competition asked Leeds writers for short but scary flash fiction. The stories would be published in napkin format for
As part of the Napkin Story Project by McBookishness, The Leeds Big Bookend Blog is showcasing some of the fantastic flash fiction works that are now published in napkin format. The competition asked Leeds writers
Chair of The Leeds Big Bookend, Daniel Ingram-Brown, explores the effects of Tony Harrison’s poem V in today’s world and what it really means. This post was originally published on the Leeds Church Institute blog,
Leeds author, Anthony Clavane examines Eddie Waring, Rugby League, Yorkshireness, revenge, revolution, betrayal and why trilby hats went out of fashion in his latest play, Playing the Joker, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, 19th-23rd November.
Aissa Gallie, one of LS13′s twenty contributors, shares the influences and inspirations that led her to writing. What does it mean to be a writer? This question I have mulled over for many years in
LS13 writer, AJ Kirby, considers Leeds’s ever-growing situation in the literary world. London-based Tottenham Hotspur Football Club always used to talk about it being their fate to win a trophy in a year ending in a
Wes Brown explains the inspirations behind his Leeds-based novel Shark. Vladimir Nabokov describes inspiration as a ‘throb’ in the spine. That it comes ‘hot’ and ‘brief’. Shark is about many things. Class, masculinity, alienation. It
Last weekend, I was at The Leeds Indie Book Fair, a month after our own Big Bookend festival in the centre of Leeds. The first thing that struck me was how brilliant for Leeds that
