Reading doesn’t have to be a lonely hobby – Chapel FM Arts Centre is here to prove it! 

Readathon is an overnight reading event. Come for all or part of this Midsummer's Night and help read an entire book out loud, or just listen. 

Watch the sunrise through the stained glass in Chapel FM's beautiful radio theatre, followed by a Readathon Big Breakfast.

Blur the Lines returns for a special event celebrating their 10th show since their very first one which took place at the inaugural Leeds Lit Fest. 

Expect a night of powerful performances featuring poetry, rap and more! It’s been quite the journey, with two sold out shows at Leeds Playhouse plus an event in association with Come Play With Me, this year they’re also at Howard Assembly Room for Leeds Jazz Festival 2025. 

SI Leeds Literary Prize is the biennial award for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women writers.

A national award with proud Yorkshire roots, the Prize has supported the careers of many successful writers, including Bradford's Saima Mir, Kit de Waal, Mahsuda Snaith, Amita Murray, Season Butler and Stella Oni.

An exclusive one-off event showcasing the legendary White Rabbit Books, purveyors of some of the best books about music and pop culture in recent memory. 

Join us for a special panel event with White Rabbit supremo Lee Brackstone, writer, poet, cultural critic and memoirist Adelle Stripe and the one and only David Keenan, author of the cult classic This Is Memorial Device and several other works of genre-bending fiction and non-fiction.

 This is our showpiece event for Leeds LitFest 2025 and is not one to be missed.

Join the Northern Fiction Alliance and Hyde Park Book Club at the Summer Solstice Book Fair! Drop in between 11am and 3pm to browse the latest books from the North's best indie publishers.

They'll be selling everything from poetry to short stories, sci-fi to literary fiction, so pop along to find your new favourite book.

 From 3.45pm onwards, settle in for some author readings, followed by networking drinks with the authors and publishers. 

But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It? is the new book by Boff Whalley, musician, author, and a founding member of the anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba and commoners choir. 

These stories are about real lives and real people - stuttering, wayward, disjointed, funny, ridiculous and unplanned. 

Boff will be at the beautiful Mill Hill Chapel to talk about, and sing, the stories that make up the book.

Lucy Vine is a writer, editor and the bestselling author of novels Hot Mess, What Fresh Hell and Are We Nearly There Yet?

Laura Wood is an academic and a writer. She is the winner of the Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for New Children's Writing and the author of the Poppy Pym series.

They’ll be talking romance with Rebecca Ryan, who will be moderating our event.

Poetry showcase with poets associated with the University of Leeds Poetry Centre. Join us for a reading of poems celebrating or insired by Midsummer with poets including Ian Duhig, Rob Miles, Maia Elsner, Kate Simpson, Matt Howard, and others to be announced.

Florence Grimes is a 31-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. After a dismal end to her girlband career, she's living in West London, single, broke and unfulfilled with only her son Dylan to keep her afloat. But then Alfie Risby, the ten-year-old heir to a frozen food empire and Dylan’s school rival, mysteriously vanishes on a class trip, and Dylan becomes a prime suspect. 

Join two highly-acclaimed Yorkshire-based writers for an evening of conversation and performance. Andrew McMillan and Maria Ferguson are known primarily as poets. However, Andrew recently published the highly-acclaimed novel 'Pity', and Maria has written and performed two award-winning one-woman theatre shows. 

Alongside conversations led by acclaimed poet Matt Abbott, Andrew and Maria will treat the audience to live performances of their work.