📢Attention all book lovers 📖

We’re really looking forward to Leeds Lit Fest 2024! 

Here’s some things we’ve got going on throughout the festival 📚

🎟️Tickets
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Thanks to everyone buying tickets for this year’s festival 🙏

A record number of tickets went on the first day & some events are likely to sell out in the next week.

Get yours & check out what’s going on 👉

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🚨Leeds Lit Fest is back🚨

Join us & some of the country’s favourite writers, poets & thinkers

Simon Armitage’s LYR, Stuart Maconie, Salena Godden, John Agard, Dj Paulette w Dave Haslam, Helen Lederer & LOTS more

Tickets available now: leedslitfest.co.uk

Pass it on 🤝

SI Leeds Lit Prize is a brilliant opportunity for unpublished Black and Asian women writers and they're open for entries NOW. Alumni include Wenyan Lu and the mighty @[email protected].

Check out the links below for more information on what they're about and how to enter 🙏

The Sid Chaplin Award is back! Open to writers at any career stage who are:

📖 From a working-class background
📖 Currently based in the North of England
📖 Working on a novel, memoir, short story collection or essay collection

Submit by 28 March: newwritingnorth.com/northern-write…

Lads there are still a few places left on this - my 12 week Exploring the Urban Weird Short Story Writing course - in person in Leeds from May - August this year. Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/short-fictio…

Thanks to everyone sharing the dates & generally supporting.

For those asking, you can join the mailing list on this link;

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Be first to hear when tickets are announced 🎫

Hurray! We have a very special event as part of this year's festival. Just a teaser for you.

Local writers/word lovers, come and join us for an evening of spoken word in #ilkley ! 👇 Tell your friends 📣

Discover Ilkley Ilkley Chat failingwriterspodcast Northern Short Story New Writing North

Writers of Leeds! Last few tickets available for HarperNorth workshop on 09.01!

Come along to hear about:
📚 Getting into publishing HarperCollinsUK
📕 Becoming an author
📚 Tips for writing and inspiration!

Grab your tickets while you can:
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Don't miss the fantastic Writing on Air 2023 festival from ChapelFM Arts Centre. It's all free!

Programme starts this Friday: chapelfm.co.uk/elfm-player/sh…

Stoked for the triple launch of SALT · Independent trade publisher, est. 1999 short story collections by me, David Frankel & david gaffney at Hyde Park Book Club on Sunday 17th Sept. It's free, starts at 6pm, and hosted by the fabulous S. K. Perry. Hope to see you there! eventbrite.co.uk/e/salt-modern-…

'On the last Waymaking point before the Afterlife, Waymaking Apprentice Violet and her boss Harriet must battle foul weather and bad tempers to bring a mysterious vessel safely in from the waves.' Feat music from Marnie Glum, on 21/7 ChapelFM Arts Centre book:

chapelfm.co.uk/events/list/20…

Calling nature writers!
Anita Sethi 🍃 will get our pens moving in a free workshop this September at Libs and Museums

Gaia Holmes and Bloodaxe Books poet Yvonne Reddick will join Anita on a panel to talk about writing craft and style!

eventbrite.co.uk/e/writers-day-…

So proud of you Sarah Davy! Well worth waiting for this announcement. You kept us on tenterhooks!!

👋BRAND NEW RETREAT👋
Join us for this amazing two-day retreat at the beautiful Old Swan Hotel in #harrogate -the hideaway haven of Agatha Christie!

⏰ 3-4 June Sat & Sun
💸 Payment on a sliding scale
💕Support & care from WLAG tutor Sara Sherwood
✍️✍️✍️
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🍍🍒Hi Fruits! One last stretch for the next issue - we are REOPENING submissions for the rest of MARCH ONLY! Our theme is still ‘Interconnection’ - send us your most exciting, most daring, funnest work - but PLEASE, no poetry! We’ve filled our quota 🍒🍍

fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/

We're excited to launch our Experimental Writing Prize for unpublished writers with School of English Route 57 . Word limit 1500, deadline 28 April, open to writers anywhere in the UK (excl Univ. Sheffield staff & students). Details here: routefiftyseven.wordpress.com/competition/