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Leeds Big Bookend retweeted
✨🚨Save The Date ~ Leeds Lit Fest is back!🚨✨
The city’s award winning festival of words & thought is back 14-22nd June 2025 📚
A collab between venues, organisers, writers & performers.
Stay tuned for the programme announcement coming soon 👀
Leeds Big Bookend retweeted
Writers in the North of England! The #NorthernWritersAwards 2025 are open for entries until 6 Feb 🏆
New to writing or already published? Fiction or poetry? Wherever you are in your journey, you could win cash prizes, mentoring, career support and more.
newwritingnorth.com/northern…
Leeds Big Bookend retweeted
Delighted to read this review of 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' in the Sunday Times by @MrRavoon Graeme Richardson. I was particularly pleased with the phrase about 'accessible complexity', paradox being a theme of the book and of life in contrary Leeds, a via negativa less-travelled.
Leeds Big Bookend retweeted
Really happy to see The Cautious Traveller’s Guide on this list! Thank you so much to @JamesLovegrove7 for choosing it!
Congratulations to @Sarah_L_Brooks on Cautious Traveller being on @FT top books of 2024: ft.com/content/1c7ef50d-0bdd…
Leeds Big Bookend retweeted
Northern writers / readers📚
We have a good selection of northern writing @HPBCLeeds & new place Holding Patterns
But anything we should def have / may have missed? Feel free to share own stuff / friends
@northfiction @northodoxpress @BigBookend @HarperNorthUK @LIVEwirePoetry
Leeds Big Bookend retweeted
📚Leeds readers & writers 📚
We’ve opened a new little spot in town (2 Albion Place), with a little nook, a quiet place to read / write in the bustle of town
Open 10am every morning 🖊️ No rush to keep buying more ✨
Leeds Big Bookend retweeted
Happy #TrusteesWeek to our brilliant co-chair Fiona Gell
Get to know her better here.
Thank you for all your hard work @BigBookend
redladder.co.uk/meet-fiona-g…
I'm feeling the ❤️ You could too. Join the brilliant @redladder Board. #TrusteesWeek
Happy #TrusteesWeek to our brilliant co-chair Fiona Gell
Get to know her better here.
Thank you for all your hard work @BigBookend
redladder.co.uk/meet-fiona-g…
Leeds Big Bookend retweeted
📢 Would you like to join our board of #trustees?
Head to our news page👇
redladder.co.uk/join-our-boa…
Then please post on socials, include in newsletters, daub on walls, skywrite with a plane, or share however you can.
Thank you, team RL x
#TrusteesWeek
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Still time to get your tickets!
Excited to share #Sanctuary with our home town of #Leeds this Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th November @LeedsPlayhouse
Still time to grab a ticket
redladder.co.uk/whatson/sanc…
Can't resist a selfie with fellow @redladder Co-Chair, Dick and #Sanctuary banner! We've been at RL HQ today finalising plans for a very special campaign as part of #TrusteesWeek. More very soon!
Book sale @theleedslibrary on Commercial St until 3pm today. Lots of book bargains to be had!
Leeds Big Bookend retweeted
Inflated book prices from the names
May work for online giants, supermarkets and high street retailers.
But for Indie bookshops they pose a massive problem!
Indies curate differently, they have to & without that we would simply not be here!
@thebookseller
@BookCornerHX
Leeds Big Bookend retweeted
Tickets available here! Might be of interest, @WritersLeeds, @LeedsLit, @BigBookend 📚📚 trumanbooks.co.uk/event/debu…
Leeds Big Bookend retweeted
Wandering Imaginations: Female Writers
We are seeking applications from emerging female fantasy and sci-fi writers based in the North of England and Ghana to take part in a writers exchange.
📆 Deadline: Friday 25 October
🔗 Learn more and apply:
bradford2025.co.uk/opportuni…
Leeds Big Bookend retweeted
6.15pm on Tuesday October 15th, with @ChrisNickson2 ,more information here:
theleedslibrary.org.uk/event…
Join us on Tuesday 15 October for a very special event as Frances Brody and Chris Nickson talk historical crime fiction, Leeds, God’s Own Country in a discussion that promises to range far and wide and to include some local stories and strange facts.
bit.ly/4dYHbGS
Leeds Big Bookend retweeted
Little piece in the Times on the Book Club today
The team’s absolutely amazing, and it’s quite a bonkers set of things we do / they have to work on… so always very gratifying when ppl are into it
Books are the future, read all about it 📚
📸 @orjenise
Honestly, @redladder never fail to deliver. #Sanctuary is absolutely of the moment. Raw, powerful, emotional - yes, I cried. Well done to the professional cast and the fantastic chorus from @CAPACOLLEGE. If you get chance please go and see this as it tours.
⛪️Sanctuary⛪️
Sanctuary is a brand-new musical, with @trwakefield
& @CAPACOLLEGE, that welcomes us in & asks the question: do we want safety & freedom for only ourselves, or for us all?
One more chance to catch it @trwakefield before it goes on tour!👇
redladder.co.uk/whatson/sanc…
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Leeds Big Bookend retweeted
🚨 Last few tickets for the Leeds Lit Fest fundraiser tomorrow 🦦
A full day (from 2pm) of writers reading out loud, performing. Some £5 tickets to snap up too, all proceeds go to supporting the festival
All welcome
bit.ly/3X181IN
