LEEDS LIT FEST 2023: 25 FEB – 5 MARCH Leeds Lit Fest is back! Returning for its fifth year, the city’s award-winning festival of words and thought will take place across a diverse range of the city’s spaces and aims to bring together, and help develop, the city’s literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from the UK and beyond. This year’s festival will tie in with Leeds 2023, the […]
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This Dreaming Isle with Jenn Ashworth & Andrew Michael Hurley Britain has a long history of folk tales, ghost stories and other uncanny fictions, and these literary ley lines are still shimmering beneath the surface of this green and pleasant land. Every few generations this strangeness crawls out from the dark places of the British imagination, seeping into our art and culture. We are living through such a time. This […]
Leeds Lit Fest 2020 Launch Party With Peepal Tree Press Our friends at Leeds Lit Fest launch their 2020 programme on Wednesday February 5th, and they can’t wait to tell you all about it. Come along to the glorious Leeds Minster, find out what the Festival is all about and enjoy readings from some of Leeds’ very own Peepal Tree Press authors including Khadijah Ibrahiim, Monique Roffey, Seni Seneviratne, Jacob Ross, Roger […]
The Northern Short Story Festival is thrilled to announce its 2019 Festival will take place from 31st May – 2nd June 2019. Programme details will be launched at a special event on March 6th at 6pm, at Carriageworks Theatre. Described as “revelatory, educational, inspiring”, the Northern Short Story Festival, now in its fourth year, is the North’s only dedicated Short Story Festival. Host to a diverse range of prizewinning […]