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14th - 22nd June 2025. Returning for its seventh year, the city’s award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the city’s literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond! #LLF25
A huge thank you to all Leeds Lit Fest writers, performers, volunteers, friends, supporters and all of you who came along to our events. We literally couldn't do it without you. Here's to 2026. We're planning for it already!
June 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What a day to close Leeds Lit Fest with..we're going out with a bang!

✨ Windrush Day w/ Howard Gardner, 11am, Truman Books
✨ Gemma Styles: Why Am I Like This? 1pm, Brudenell Social Club
✨ Boater, a life on England's Waterways - Jo Bell, 5pm, Hold Fast Bookshop

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June 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The penultimate day of Leeds Lit Fest! 🙌 We've got an exciting line-up for you today!

Have a looksie 👀 www.leedslitfest.co.uk

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June 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
✨🙌 On Day 7 of Leeds Lit Fest, it's @boffwhalley.bsky.social who is taking centre stage!

🙌✨ Join us today at 7pm for an evening with the founding member of Chumbawamba. It'll be an evening of storytelling through song and conversation. Organised by Holdfast Leeds

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June 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Time flies! How is it already Day 6 of Leeds Lit Fest? 😱 For Day 6 we've got exactly 6 events for you to join right across town!

There's still time to join us: www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/

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June 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
✨ Ready for Day 5? ✨ This evening has three ace events for you to meet fellow lit and poetry lovers!

What's on today: www.leedslitfest.co.uk

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June 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
What a cracking conversation between our two Wild Women writers @emilyzmarshall.bsky.social and @rachelbower.bsky.social .So generous, open and honest about their writing and their lives. A real privilege to be there.
June 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
🙌 Day 4! 🙌 We feel so grateful for this great line-up across town! Poetry, music, folklore... No matter what kind of lover of the written word you are, we've got something for all.

Last minute tickets: www.leedslitfest.co.uk

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June 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Goth night has kicked off back in its Leeds heartland! @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @simonprice.bsky.social and @stuhennigan.bsky.social taking me back to my uni days. Long live Goth sub-culture.
June 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Explore the darker side of books with us on 🤘Day 3🤘 of #leedslitfest2025!

Join us after work at Hyde Park Book Club: www.leedslitfest.co.uk

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June 16, 2025 at 6:08 AM
📖 Day 2 of Leeds Lit Fest is here! 📖 Swap your books, watch a show, learn about publishing & test your literary knowledge with a quiz! We're all about building community in our amazing city and would love to have you join us! 🫶

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June 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Speaking of celebrating @northodoxpress.bsky.social 5th birthday, here they all are! We've had a great morning hearing about this amazing small press. 50 books published in 5 years. That's amazing!
June 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
📣 Aaaand we're off! 📣 Day 1 of Leeds Lit Fest is here and we've got six great events on today 👏.

Grab a last-minute ticket and join us: www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/

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June 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The 7th #Leeds Lit Fest kicks off tomorrow. With 30+ events at venues across the city, this is our most eclectic mix yet reflecting an increasingly thriving literary scene.

Tickets are available for many of the Festival’s events still. Join us: www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/

#literature #festival
June 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT! This June, Leeds Lit Fest is back with 9 days of events in venues across the city. A collaboration of writers, venues, programmers & poets. A gathering of homegrown people & guests from afar.

For more info on the programme & to book tickets: www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/
April 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
So happy about this! Save The Date ~ Leeds Lit Fest is back,
14-22 June. Please share.

A collaboration between venues, organisers, writers & performers, we’ve once again got an action packed week of events taking place in venues across #Leeds

Stay tuned for the programme announcement coming soon.
March 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
About to start debut author Rachel Bower's It Comes From The River. Portrays strong Northern women's voices against a folklore thread.
February 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Hello writers! Hello readers! Give us a follow and together let's make 2025 the best Leeds Lit Fest yet.
January 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM