Leeds Lit Fest is back!

This year’s festival is supported by Leeds 2023, the citywide celebration of culture which will interweave themes of untold stories, radical acts, playful adventures and future generations.

The Festival is very excited to be hosting poet, playwright, memoirist, performer and broadcaster Lemn Sissay OBE (above) as he brings his memoir My Name is Why to Carriageworks Theatre (Fri 3rd March).  In it, Sissay reflects on his childhood, self-expression and Britishness, and in doing so explores the institutional care system, race, family and the meaning of home.

Become a WOWser

LEEDS 2023 and WOW - Women of The World Festival are on the lookout for young women and non-binary and gender non-conforming people to join them for a FREE twelve-week programme.

It’s an opportunity to develop skills in festival making and explore gender equality through activism and the arts. The WOWsers programme offers the chance to build new networks with other participants, artists, and activists, and to create their own event as part of a WOW festival in Leeds. 

WaterLANDS - artist opportunity

A part-time artistic engagement residency has been funded to work with the restoration team and partners working at the Great North Bog site which spans large parts of northern England and their community.

As key partners in WaterLANDS, Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP), at University of Leeds, will be taking part in the selection process.

Six events for Leeds literature lovers this October

Out of Many Lit runs from 4-8 October with a host of events showcasing writers of Jamaican and wider Caribbean heritage and guest contributors — from budding young community writers to national treasures and international names across this five-day festival of literary talent unprecedented in the North. It is part of the Jamaica Society Leeds-organised Out of Many Festival which runs until February 2023.