Leeds Big Bookend

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✨🚨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 👀

@Yorkshire_Tales Thanks! Slowly building up followers and engagement. Not in any rush though.

@BigBookend Good luck! Tried BlueSky but packed it in after 2 months. Feels like talking to yourself unless you have a LOT of followers.

We're no longer updating our Twitter/X. If you'd like to keep up to date with what's happening at the Big Bookend, please follow us on one of our other channels. Mainly posting on BlueSky: 👉 BlueSky @bigbookend.bsky.social 👉 Instagram @bigbookend 👉 Facebook @BigBookend

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-write…

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.

@Sarah_L_Brooks @JamesLovegrove7 Wow, Sarah! Wonderful news.

Really happy to see The Cautious Traveller’s Guide on this list! Thank you so much to @JamesLovegrove7 for choosing it!

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

@JackLSimpson @NewWritingNorth @JustLence @mattabbottpoet @LeedsArts @LeedsInspired @VisitLeeds @CllrSalmaArif @alexsobel Can't wait to pop in! Well done, Jack. Another space for creatives in Leeds!! Bring it on.

📚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 ✨

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-gel…

I'm feeling the ❤️ You could too. Join the brilliant @redladder Board. #TrusteesWeek

📢 Would you like to join our board of #trustees? Head to our news page👇 redladder.co.uk/join-our-board… 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

Still time to get your tickets!

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!

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

Tickets available here! Might be of interest, @WritersLeeds, @LeedsLit, @BigBookend 📚📚 trumanbooks.co.uk/event/debut-cl…

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/opportunity/wa…

6.15pm on Tuesday October 15th, with @ChrisNickson2 ,more information here: theleedslibrary.org.uk/events/brody-a…