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Pick Six: Nigerian-British writer Yomi Sode

Mon 01 Jun 2026

For this month’s Pick Six we turned to award-winning Nigerian-British writer Yomi Sode who will be performing at Lakeside Arts on 11 June as part of Nottingham Poetry Festival.

Theatre Interview: Sam Harry Macgregor actor and writer from Hold The Line at Nottingham Arts Theatre

Wed 08 Apr 2026

Hold the Line is a new play coming to the Nottingham Arts Theatre that lifts the lid on life and work at the NHS 111 telephone service. Rising star Sam Harry Macgregor, who wrote and stars in the play, talks to Leftlion about the journey...

Bon journal: writer Andrew Tucker Leavis on launching the New Nottingham Journal

Wed 03 Dec 2025

All that Nottingham’s literary scene was missing, said poet Rory Waterman, was a “name-brand literary journal”. Grace Sanders speaks to Andrew Tucker Leavis, Editor-in-Chief of the New Nottingham Journal, about how he decided to rectify that issue, with LeftLion’s help…

Southwell Scriptorium Writers Meeting- Online/ In-person

Sat 29 Nov 2025

Submitting to Agents for Creative Writers

Sat 15 Nov 2025

How to Write Horror and the Effects Of Fear

Wed 12 Nov 2025

Southwell Scriptorium Writers Meeting- Online/ In-person

Sat 25 Oct 2025

Free, Online Creative Writing Groups for Autistic Writers In the North

Thu 23 Oct 2025

Free, Online Creative Writing Workshops for Global Majority, Autistic Writers

Tue 14 Oct 2025

Gainsborough Young Writers' Group

Sat 11 Oct 2025

Mansfield Young Writers' Group

Thu 09 Oct 2025

Southwell Scriptorium Writers Meeting- Online/ In-person

Sat 27 Sept 2025

Actor, Writer and Director Ryan Symons on The Void: Thunder Road’s chilling new sci-fi horror

Mon 08 Sept 2025

We caught up with writer, director and actor, Ryan Simons, about Thunder Road’s chilling new sci-fi horror, The Void. Catch it at Mansfield Palace Theatre on Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 September...

Write With Me Tuesdays - Six Week Course

Tue 02 Sept 2025

LeftLion Interviews Podcast #12: Writer James Graham on Dear England, Sherwood, Broadway, London theatre and writing for stage and screen

Mon 25 Aug 2025

Our latest episode is a conversation with the Notts-born Showrunner of BBC TV's Sherwood, who is taking Notts to New York stages and returning home to celebrate the 160th Birthday of Nottingham's Theatre Royal...