Vote by midnight tomorrow:
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We'd
love you to vote for Leeds Lit Fest as Best Literary Festival and
This New North ed by SJ Bradley and Anna Chilvers as Best
Anthology!
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You
have until midnight on 7th April to get Leeds literature on the
longlist!
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Dear
Friend
We need your help once again to get Leeds lit folk on the longlist
for the Saboteur Awards 2021. Over the last few of years we've
had several Leeds and Yorkshire writers and literary organisations
make the shortlists. In 2017 Remembering
Oluwale won Best Anthology and last year Leeds Lit
Fest won Best Literary Festival. We'd really love to keep that
excellent track record going. The awards are important for
highlighting the indie lit scene, for the national recognition
they bring to the individuals and organisations concerned and they
can also help secure funding. It's been a very difficult 12 months
for the arts world. The Saboteur Awards offer a pocket of light to
writers, performers and organisations who work so hard for
literature.
I want to promote the Leeds lit scene and so I'm going to make a
few suggestions for nominations. You will have your own
preferences but if you don't then perhaps you would consider
my suggestions. Whatever you decide, please spend a few minutes and
vote. It will make the world of diffference to those nominated and
certainly brighten their day if they get on to the longlist. You
have to nominate in THREE categories for your vote to count. You
don't have to vote in all but you do need to write N/A in those you
aren't voting for. My suggestions are:
BEST LITERARY
FESTIVAL: Leeds Lit Fest. Last month we
delivered 25 digital events in challenging circumstances. LLF21 was
really well attended and hugely enjoyed by our audiences. The
festival partners had to be extremely creative in the programme
delivery and very adaptable to the ever changing circumstances.
BEST ANTHOLOGY: This New North ed by SJ Bradley
and Anna Chilvers and published by Valley Press. This Anthology has
come out of the Northern Short Story Festival's Academy programme which
champions Yorkshire writers. There's some fantastic new Northern
writing here.
BEST
COLLABORATION: Fit To Bust by Pamela Scobie and
Hannah Stone published by Runcible Spoon Press. A
fun, fabulous, quirky poetry collection that unwraps female
desire and attire.
BEST POETRY
PAMPHLET: This is Virus by Joe Williams. Joe uses the austerity of found
poetry as an antidote to troubled times, in which our future – as
Camus wrote – feels suppressed. The bleak isolation of these words
may provide a meaning to ours.” Alicia Fernández
You can vote
here: http://sabotagereviews.com/2021/03/31/saboteur-awards-2021-votes-open/
Voting closes on Wednesday 7th April at midnight. Just two days
away!
Thank you very much.
Best wishes
Fiona
The Leeds Big Bookend and Northern Short Story Festival/ Leeds Lit
Fest Partner
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