BIG BOOKEND - Key Persons
Anna is a writer, a runner, a long-distance walker, a mother, a teacher and a reader.She is the Academy Facilitator of the Northern Short Story Festival. Her most recent novel, Tainted Love, was published in 2016, and her first, Falling Through Clouds, in 2010 (both Bluemoose Books). She has also published a collection of short stories, Legging It (Pennine Prospects, 2012) and her play, The Room was performed at the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival 2013. Anna is particularly interested in the links between writing, walking and the landscape. She is currently working on her next novel, East Coast Road, as well as a PhD on writing and walking in woodland.
Fiona is a founder member and Director of the Leeds Big Bookend and Northern Short Story Festival. She has put on hundreds of literary events in Leeds over the last 10 years. She is a founder member of Leeds Lit Fest which won Best Literary Festival at the Saboteur Awards 2020. She works as the Marketing and Communications Officer at The Leeds Library.
Molly is a freelance digital content creator for the Northern Short Story Festival and Leeds Big Bookend as well as a Library Projects Assistant. Originally from Cambridgeshire, she now lives in Leeds.
Job Titles:
- Editor, Northern Short Story Festival Academy Anthology