Headingley LitFest: Yorkshire Noir - Helen Cadbury, Nick Quantrill, Alison Taft, Nick Triplow

Sunday, 15 March 2015

Yorkshire Noir - Helen Cadbury, Nick Quantrill, Alison Taft, Nick Triplow

Helen Cadbury, Nick Quantrill, Alison Taft, Nick Triplow

Audience comments:

Photos: Richard Wilcocks

Really interesting. A fabulous articulate discussion and an excellent introduction to new authors, to read and look out for.

Great event. Well balanced between authors talking about their own books and Q & A. More crime fiction events please!

Excellent evening with interesting authors. Good readings (bought book of one author simply due to reading). Approachable and friendly authors. Many thanks for a great evening.

Excellent evening. Well balanced panel. Alison Taft was a good chair.

Fantastic! Learnt so much. Wish it had gone on far longer.

Was fabulous and really enjoyed it. Took my mom for Mothers’ Day … was well worth it!

Interesting evening. Good speakers. Felt informal and relaxed. Informative. Entertaining.

Informative and enjoyable. Well up to the hoped for standard and a lively evening throughout. Thank you.

Good insights into how different writers go to their tasks. Let’s have more of this kind of event.

Lots of fun and informative about how to write and create ideas.

A good evening. Interesting to hear the background to each of the author’s books and when they started crime novels etc. Nice and informal.

Very interesting to hear about the craft of writing.

Interesting and enlightening evening.

Very interesting talk with different perspectives.

I arrived promptly at 8pm so missed the readings. Discussion interesting.

Superb! Thank you!

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LITERARY HEADINGLEY

Headingley is just the place for it! Don't expect a big circus with marquees, though: we're not at that stage yet. We're all volunteers as well.

Our venues include the HEART Centre on Bennett Road, the New Headingley Club on St Michael's Road, friendly cafés, historic local cinemas, Headingley Library, people's houses and the historic Leeds Library in Commercial Street, city centre.

Headingley's Literary Links

Headingley has strong connections with many writers:

Arthur Ransome was born in Headingley, J R R Tolkien lived at 5 Holly Bank and also at 2 Darnley Road, West Park when he was reader in English Language at the University of Leeds 1920 - 25, Alan Bennett lived over a butcher's shop opposite the Three Horseshoes, now Royale Dry Cleaners.

Lucy Newlyn has published poetry about her early life in Headingley, George Orwell stayed at 21 Estcourt Avenue with his sister Marjorie and her husband Humphrey 'Humpy' Dakin (with whom he visited the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth), T S Eliot used to visit his mother-in-law in Weetwood Lane, William Fryer Harvey was brought up in Spring Bank, Trevor Griffiths lived just off Victoria Road on Winstanley Terrace, Jon Silkin's first office of STAND magazine was his flat at 144 Otley Road, Sir Geoffrey Hill lived in Shire Oak Road, Peter Redgrove lived in Headingley between 1962 and 1965 when he was Gregory Fellow of Poetry at the University of Leeds, and playwright Kay Mellor still lives near The Hollies in Far Headingley.

Wilson Barrett, the charismatic first manager of the Grand Theatre, Leeds (a prolific playwright as well), lived in Beech Grove Terrace, Woodhouse in the 1870s. His house was a meeting place for many writers, artists and visitors to Leeds - such as W. S. Gilbert, George Grossmith and Atkinson Grimshaw.

Headingley LitFest 2020 was the thirteenth. The fourteenth will take place from March 2021 and will be adapted to the rules of the Covid pandemic. We are now a proud part of the annual Leeds Lit Fest.