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, […]
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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 […]
Next weeks’ Northern Short Story Festival will bring a selection of award-winning Northern publishers to our Festival Hub area (open all day on Saturday.) Ahead of our big festival weekend, festival intern Beth Lenderyou looked a little more in detail at some of the presses which will be with us all day. It can be easy to believe that the publishing industry is inaccessible and all but confined to London, […]
I’ve ringed the dates on my calendar with a fancy purple marker pen (not that I could forget!). The leaves are already bristling with the promise of exciting events at the forthcoming NoShoSto Festival. Here are just three which I’m particularly looking forward to. On Saturday 1st June, 2pm, the award winning short story writer C G Menon will be running a workshop called ‘Credible and Compelling Writing’. Through […]
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 […]