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 […]
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We are thrilled to launch our 2019 Festival programme at the first ever Leeds Lit Fest, on Wednesday March 6th at Carriageworks Theatre, 6pm. 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 publishers and authors, the festival has won plaudits for its innovative programming and affordable, accessible ethos. […]
Surrealism in Fiction Workshop with Yan Ge The Northern Short Story Festival is thrilled to be hosting top Chinese author Yan Ge in Leeds for a “Surrealism in Fiction” workshop, and Salon. Saturday 9 February 2019, 1- 4pm at Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds Tickets/ £16. Available from Carriageworks website. Subsidised* tickets £5. Email us to book. (northernshortstoryfestival at gmail.com) Surrealism in fiction: being magical, whimsical or uncanny. As soon as storytelling was […]
Writer Judy Birkbeck reviews Table Manners, by Susmita Bhattacharya, published by Dahlia Publishing, 2018. Susmita Bhattacharya’s first collection ranges between India, Cardiff and Singapore and other places, and focuses on family relationships and cultural differences or the clash between generations, but above all the treatment of women in various societies. In Summer of Learning, a girl and her parents experience difficulties when visiting the father’s family in India on a long-planned […]
Writer Judy Birkbeck reviews The Sing of the Shore, by Lucy Wood, published by 4th Estate, 2018. Lucy Wood’s first collection of short stories, Diving Belles, centred around Cornish folklore and was peopled with house spirits, mermaids and so on. The Sing of the Shore is more earthy and tangible; it does not show the picture-postcard Cornwall of sandy coves, rugged cliffs and expansive sea views. Rather, we see the realities […]
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 Leeds Library. The 12 selected writers form the first year’s intake to The Northern Short Story Festival Academy which was launched this year. Among them is a Pushcart nominee, the winner of the Bare Fiction prize, the winner […]