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Q&A: Tony Hawks
We chat to comedy writer and musician Tony Hawks ahead of his live Q&A screening at City Screen this Wednesday.
National Storytelling Week
Did you know this week is National Storytelling Week?
Review: Script Factor
Here’s the view from the audience at this week’s instalment of the Script Factor scriptwriting competition at The Basement.
Sci-fi author to crowdfund novella set in York
Today we met with writer Jessica Meats, who’s self-publishing her latest novella, Codename Omega: Omega Rising.
O&O Loves: Haruki Murakami
Let John Donnelly introduce you to the greatest genius of modern magic-realist literature.
Will Self amongst big names at York Literature Festival
A host of leading names in literature have been confirmed for this year’s York Literature Festival, including Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, journalist and novelist Will Self, and celebrated Yorkshire playright Simon Armitage.
REVIEW: Dinner and Dickens
The Lamb and Lion Inn has plenty of room this Christmas, and there are 20 seats in the top parlour offering a particularly up-close-and-personal approach to Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
The Poet Laureate Comes to York
Join us for an audience with Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, who will perform a selection of her well-loved and…
The Literary Explosion
After the announcement in October that funding had been secured for the 2013 York Literature Festival, plans for the upcoming…
The Great British Ghost Story
A sensation prickles at the hollow of your neck; cold embalms your limbs. The book slips from your rigid fingers. Reading can be dead scary. Shaking the cobwebs off the covers of some of the best supernatural fiction for All Hallows’ Eve, this is the Great British ghost story.
York Literature Festival 2013 to go ahead
York Literature Festival have been awarded £6,236 from the Arts Council to stage the 2013 Festival. It is the first time ever that the Festival has recieved funding.
National Poetry Day is here
York is a hotbed of open mics: poetry & prose, writing workshops, storytelling events, music & poetry nights; you name…
REVIEW: Silver Threads
Silver Threads by Jade Kennedy (2012; Valley Press) This slim volume of 21 poems, most of delicate length, takes the…
The treats of York Literature Festival
On Wednesday 7 November 2012, the York Literature Festival, with the York Museums Trust, will present ‘An Evening with Alexander McCall…
An eerie twist for local writers
Stairwell Books, a York-based small press publisher, will be launching their new anthology of ghostly poetry and short stories on…
The Spookyn Word: Pressed by Unseen Feet
The Spoken Word Open Mic night runs every first Tuesday of every month with resounding success developing the poetry and…
