Sarah-Clare Conlon

Love words? Head to Lawrence Batley Theatre’s monthly night of words, shared spoken and sung, hosted by Rose Condo.

The team at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House continues its deep dive into one of the famous 19th-century author’s texts: Wives and Daughters.

Celebrating the autumn 2025 issue, PN Review is hosting a special reading event featuring Sinéad Morrissey, Ophira Gottlieb, Evan Jones and Padraig Regan.

More Song is back for its last event of the year with readings from Dom Hale, Alex Marsh and Elvire Roberts, plus an open mic – don’t miss this!

With the help of some exciting contemporary poets, Fly On The Wall Press presents an online poetry panel: Paths into Poetry.

We’re taking one last look at the cityscape as Elizabeth Gaskell’s famous protagonist Mary Barton might have experienced it, focusing in on the Christmas scene.

A celebration of poetry with invited guests and ‘lucky dip’ open mic. In September, Ian Duhig, in October, Helen Mort.

Poetry at the Dusty Miller is a now regular night with invited readers, organised by poets Carola Luther and Ian Humphreys in the Coiners’ Room in the Mytholmroyd pub.

The Lake District’s famous Sam Read Bookseller has teamed up with HarperNorth to present an author talk and Q&A as Caro Giles chats about her memoir, Twelve Moons.

Manchester Literature Festival has largely finished for 2023, but this Bookend event welcoming Naomi Alderman “in conversation” joins a couple of others for an extra sprinkling of book magic.

Head to Factory International’s new building Aviva Studios for the very first Poetry Slam to be hosted there, led by vibrant Manchester-based wordsmiths collective The Poetry Place.

There’s a double helping of Lisa Robertson this November: first at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds then, next day, at Peste bar-cum-bookshop loitering on the liminal edgelands of Ancoats in Manchester.