The Northern Short Story Festival Academy is delighted to announce that a further 6 promising writers are to join its now well-established Academy programme in 2023. Since its inception in 2018 the Academy has...
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...
We are delighted to announce that applications for the Northern Short Story Festival Academy will open on September 5th. What’s it all about? The Northern Short Story Festival Academy is a development programme which...
It’s the first meeting of the NoShoSto Book Club on Tuesday 25th September at The Doghouse Bar and to celebrate we thought we’d start with one of Leeds’ finest contemporary writers, Clare Fisher. Clare Fisher‘s debut...
For our second #UrbiWrite event, we are taking you out of the city! Join us on Saturday 27 October from 10.00-3.00pm, at the Leeds Ukrainian Community Centre, with an opportunity to share your work and socialise afterwards...
The Northern Short Story Festival and Leeds Big Bookend, in partnership with the Carriageworks Theatre, and supported by Arts@Leeds and Leeds City Council, bring you #UrbiWrite. Register here. What’s it all about? Need a quiet...
“Welcome, weary traveller! I hope the journey wasn’t too arduous – although there isn’t a whisper of wind this night, the seas can be quite choppy and you’re looking quite rattled…oh, you didn’t come...
We announced our longlist for the Walter Swan Short Story Prize 2017-18 last month. We are delighted today to announce our shortlist and details of the prize giving event and Anthology launch which will take...
Thank you to everybody who entered The Walter Swan Short Story Prize 2017-18. The competition closed in October with over 300 entries from all over the UK and internationally. The standard was extremely high. Our...
2018 already! How did that happen? Happy New Year to you all. Thank you so much for all your support in 2017. We really did have an excellent year and it’s worth spending a...
