The arts class war starts here for 'We Are Poets' and Leeds Young Authors
Mick's Leeds Young Authors anti high arts funding rant that stayed in the top 5 Guardian most viewed web articles for a couple of days...
How the BBC rewrote history to disrespect Leeds... again
Mick slaps the nut on the BBC, it's disrespect for Leeds and it's re-writing of history. For the Guardian. Read it here #MickMcCann #BBC...
'Leedsness' and Our Hidden Writing Heritage
Leeds has had a huge influence on national thinking and writing that it appears to know little about. In this Guardian piece Mick McCann...
LS13: A New Generation of Leeds Writers
LS13 an anthology of Leeds writers, released to coincide with The Big Bookend, gets reviewed by John Lake, author of the Leeds 6 Trilogy....
Taiwanese lass hunts cool in Leeds and exports it all over the world
Shang Ting Peng's thoughts and pictures about her adopted city have gone viral. Deservedly so, because they spring from a fresh and...
Leeds, The Promised Land - We can Create It, Despite London
Mick reviews the staging of Anthony Clavane's award-winning book The Promised Land and breaks into a pseudo-working -class hero, northern...
Mick's Trilogy of Culture Vulture Articles
Mick explores the nature if 'Leedsness', Leeds literature past, present and future, based around a Waterstones' event featuring Ian...
Punk publishing - a clarion call from noir-est Yorkshire
Getting out tales of darkest Leeds isn't easy, here Mick talks about the complexity of indie publishing and explains some of the Armley...
Leeds creatives and representations of the working class
Across the centuries Leeds creatives have made some important contributions to how we perceive 'ordinary people'. Here Mick explores...
Delivering cool: new digital eye on Leeds Fashion Show
The seventh annual event has watchers online this year and Mick McCann is one of them. Read it here #MickMcCann #Fashion #Leeds #Guardian
