Abi Hynes launches her debut short story collection Monstrous Longings, featuring contemporary fictions of a feminist speculative lilt that explore the themes of love, hunger and obsession.
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Richard Price will be reading from and chatting about his latest poetry collection, Late Gifts, which is published by Manchester’s Carcanet Press on 26 October.
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Thomas Morris was recently heralded as one of the latest Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists cohort and his short-story collection Open Up has just been published by Faber.
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University Green-based Blackwell’s Bookshop is hosting an evening of poetry with their friends at The Emma Press, an independent publishing house in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.
Free entry
We’re heading online for the launch of The Coming Thing, the latest book – a brilliant long narrative poem – by Martina Evans, chatting to fellow poet Julia Copus.
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This in-person reading and discussion by poets Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo and Denise Riley is part of exhibition season The Weight of Words at the Henry Moore Institute.
Free entry
Chorlton Book Festival takes place from Friday 20 September to Saturday 28 September, with a small but no less juicy version for 2024 as Chorlton’s lovely Carnegie library undergoes renovation.
Free entry
Leading independent press Salt Publishing is a champion of the short story, and this showcase gives you the rare chance to hear from Clare Fisher, David Frankel and David Gaffney.
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Novelist and philosopher Lars Iyer’s latest book, My Weil, is set in Manchester and is described as “scathingly funny”.
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TS Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Fred D’Aguiar launches his latest collection with Manchester’s Carcanet Press, reading extracts from For The Unnamed and chatting about it with poet and editor André Naffis-Sahely.
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We’re heading to House of Books & Friends to join Manchester’s Fly On The Wall Press as they launch Rachel Grosvenor’s debut novel The Finery.
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Morecambe Poetry Festival is back for a second year, welcoming household names including Brian Bilston, Carol Ann Duffy and Roger McGough.
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