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19/03/2026

Authors Liz Mistry Liz Mistry moved to West Yorkshire in the late 1980s. Her two gritty crime fiction police procedural novels set in Bradford – the DI Gus McGuire series and her DS Nikki Parekh series – embrace the city she describes as ‘Warm, Rich and Fearless’ whilst exploring the darknes...

19/03/2026

Huge thanks to Alex and Alison from the RHS for arranging a wonderful workshop at the Nowell Mount Community Centre in Leeds yesterday. What a lovely group of people, with a lot of energy inspired, no doubt, by the beautiful spring weather. We’re looking forward to reading everything that came out of the session, but special thanks to Kim Hall for sending this response afterwards.

19/03/2026

03/03/2026

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08/02/2026

Announcing the new anthology call for submissions! open to anyone connected with Leeds Trinity University, as students, staff, or Wordspace, the Writers' Festival, or any other writing events connected with the University. Here are the details: https://www.facebook.com/share/17pLVW91U9/

The 2026 anthology brought to you by Leeds Trinity University!
This year's anthology theme is: Power

25/11/2025

In addition to our IRL Wordspace open mic, there will be the usual monthly online version as well, Monday 1st December. Join us for a Christmassy-themed hour of fiction and poetry. Bring and share. Message for the link.

25/11/2025

Wordspace has been sent this info about an event people may be interested in:

Tickets are now on sale for ‘Way Marker’ - a folk horror tale of isolation and dark secrets brought to you by The Librarian of Weeping Bank.

📍Left Bank Leeds
25 Nov 2025, 6.30pm

🎟️ Tickets :
£8 with this link (£12/£10 for everyone else!)
www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-ldkmlpp

In Weeping Bank, they say The Librarian writes by moonlight and locks away his stories at dawn. But every now and then, by candlelight and under the watchful glow of a single brass lamp, he reads one or two of his chilling tales to rapt audiences across the country.

This is storytelling as it once was - eerie, immersive and dangerously close.

"a masterclass in the art of the modern ghost story" Bronte Schiltz, writer/journalist

A WORD OF CAUTION: The Librarian’s readings contain moments of considerable unease and are deemed unsuitable for children and the faint of heart.

To learn more about The Librarian, his dark tales and the village of Weeping Bank, head over to www.weepingbank.com

The ghost stories of Weeping Bank, researched, written and read by The Librarian.

28/10/2025

The workshops have been and gone, but we would welcome submissions up until 15 November.