41 The Scrubbins Todmorden Dear everyone, A joyful and merry festive season to you all. What a year it has been! For the Family Thompson – Colin, Helen, and sons Tom and David – this has been a year of highs and lows. Christmas 2019, when Colin had just lost his job, was a low point for us. Little did any of us know back then how much worse things […]
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Dear Friends of the Northern Short Story Festival, After five years at the helm, I’ve recently made the decision to step down as director and programmer of the Northern Short Story Festival. In 2015, I saw the need for the North to have a festival celebrating this precise form. Our region was and is full of excellent shortform writers, and the excellent presses who publish them. My aim was always […]
Wednesday 30th October, Hyde Park Book Club, Gaia Holmes + SJ Bradley + host Kimberly Campanello. £3 The Northern Short Story Festival is proud to support the launch of Comma Press’ Resist: Stories of Uprising, an addition to their acclaimed “Protest” series. Join local authors Gaia Holmes (Lifting The Grand Piano By One Leg) and SJ Bradley (K Blundell Trust Award Winner) who will be talking about their short fiction, […]
The Northern Short Story Festival is proud to announce its Autumn programme. With guided walks, workshops, Hallowe’en themed fancy dress, political writing and FRIGHTFEST minifestival to scare you silly, there’s plenty going on this October at the Northern Short Story Festival. Saturday October 19th: Guided walk & Creative Writing workshop, Middleton Park with Richard Smyth (FREE) We are over the moon to be announcing […]
Reading and Q&A: Resist: Stories of Uprising. Reading & Q&A – Comma Press. Saturday 1st June, 4.30pm-5.15pm. Tickets £4/Free.
Saturday 1st June, 4.30-5.30, Carriageworks Studio Theatre Resist: Stories of Uprising Reading & Q&A – Comma Press Hosted by James Nash. Building on the success of Comma’s previous project, Protest, this anthology challenges 20 acclaimed authors to get under the skin of key moments of British protest. Working closely with historians, crowd scientists, and activists, these stories reimagine events through the eyes of the people involved, and take in every […]