We’re bringing the party to Leeds in just 10 days time! More than 100 amazing events in 35 venues across the city from Wednesday 4 March to Sunday 8 March. LLF20’s ambitious programme has something […]
Big Bookend team member, Halima Mayat, interviews West Yorkshire author of short-form fiction, N J Ramsden, on his writing and reading habits, and his most recent publication Nothing’s Oblong. What inspired you to write Nothing’s Oblong? I always wanted to write
Have you ever thought of volunteering for a festival or just getting involved with something you are passionate about? We all did and three years down the line, the Big Bookend is fast becoming part
Co-ordinator of the children’s programme for this year’s Leeds Big Bookend, Vicky Pointing, shares her experience and advice from the festival. Perhaps you’re an aspiring children’s writer, or maybe you have kids of your own and think
This week, Richard Smyth examines the interplay of happiness and unhappiness in literary work, and what draws people to read melancholic writing. I’m writing this on the International Day of Happiness. Happiness has a complicated
Rebecca Leeming, an English Literature graduate and Leeds Big Bookend volunteer, shares her passion for Roald Dahl’s life and work in this week’s post. ‘And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around
You may or may not have stumbled across a page on our blog called Yorkshire Literary Festivals & Book Fairs… Why not kick off the new year with a literary event or two? We have
Our next napkin story winner is Jenny Beech, and her flash fiction piece ‘Something Out of Science Fiction’. The News has been strange these past days. Flickering images of peculiar shadows, the sounds of screams
