Please note: this event is taking place at the Hyde Park Book Club Join poets and fellow Dream Catcher editors Hannah Stone and Joe Williams in conversation on Hannah's most recent collection, The Invisible Worm (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2023). 'Part threnody, part celebration of friendship’, these poems celebrate Hannah’s friendship with Rosemary Mitchell, and explore […]

Explore the art of zine-making in the gorgeous setting of the Leeds Library. You’ll be introduced to what a zine is: a DIY, creative, experimental way of putting together words and images, which can be about whatever you want. The workshop leader will demonstrate different ways of folding paper to make a classic zine format. […]

An unmissable reading from two Leeds-based poets with debut collections from the mighty Peepal Tree Press. Emily Zobel Marshall’s Bath of Herbs explores the complexity of mixed-race, hybrid identities and relationships to the English and Welsh mountains, fells, rivers and shorelines from an ‘othered’, unmappable, positionality. Adam Lowe’s Patterflash is a PBS Recommendation, receiving acclaim […]

Dietrich, Lemper, La Voix…The cabaret has given rise to some of the most boundary- pushing female performers of the 20th & 21st Centuries. Yet the songwriters that get remembered remain staunchly male. No more, we say! Amy J Payne, Anna Pool and Oliver Rundell invite you to a relaxed and intimate cabaret of words and […]

Whether you like your crime fiction on the cosy side or on the dark side, this panel discussion with Northern Crime Fiction authors is a must. Liz Mistry writes gritty Bradford and Scottish thrillers, Christie J Newport thrills her readers with dark twisty plots and Catherine Yaffe offers psychological depth, twisty plots, and unforgettable characters […]

John Taylor has not taken the sartorial world by storm. Nor has he lived up to the family legacy –– something his father is keen to remind him of, at every opportunity. The worst part? His father has been dead for quite some time. The Tailor’s Ghost is a Dickensian yarn set in the coal-black […]

Creative poetry and storytelling workshop 'Once Upon a Now' is a creative poetry and storytelling workshop led by F R Kesby, author of 'Here Be Monsters'. In this session, participants will explore myths, fairytales and legends from across cultures and history, then rewrite and reshape them for a modern age. Using prompts, discussion and guided […]

Step into the shadowy, exuberant world of 18th-century London as poetry collection A Cloud of Witnesses is brought to life in a bold, in-character performance by Miss Bianca. Three hundred years ago, on a freezing cold night in February 1726, following an undercover entrapment operation, the authorities begin raiding gay venues in London. At the […]