Sarah-Clare Conlon

Writing On Air is a literature festival on the radio – with more than 50 events running 23 to 27 November.

Levenshulme Old Library has commissioned brand-new festive ghost stories from six writers for three special atmospheric lantern-lit reading events after hours in the Carnegie building.

Jeffrey Wainwright launches his ninth collection of poetry, Here On Earth, with an online reading and chat with John McAuliffe from the book’s publisher Carcanet.

Exploring our natural world through words, music and poetry, Kendal Mountain Book Festival should be a top pick for lovers of nature writing and avid explorers everywhere.

Part of Manchester Literature Festival, the annual John Rylands Poetry Reading with Manchester’s Carcanet Press is an event all in itself, and this year is no exception, welcoming “one of America’s most original, influential, and productive of lyric poets” Carl Phillips.

Poets & Players is a must-go for lovers of words and music, presenting poets established and emerging, with the autumn season kicking off with headline poet Lorna Goodison.

Open Eye Gallery invites you to join in a collective reading of TS Eliot’s seminal long poem The Waste Land, 100 years after it was first published.

Poetry meets tennis and live literature meets theatre in LOB, a piece that explores moving through sporting spaces as a queer body, written and performed by Roma Havers, Young Identity alumna and Learning Officer at Manchester Poetry Library.

Gravity is an exciting festival hosted from Liverpool’s Calderstones Park over the weekend of 29 September to 2 October, described as “a festival for our times that fuses great writing with intimate conversations”.

Join the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and his band LYR (Land Yacht Regatta) for a poetry performance with a difference as they premiere Barnsley – An Unnatural History.

This event marks the launch of the new book Twelve Cries from Home: In Search of Sri Lanka’s Disappeared by Professor Minoli Salgado, Professor of International Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Part of Ink Slingers: Farsley Literature Festival, Truman Books presents a panel with five highly respected Northern indie publishers to dive beneath the surface of what can be an opaque industry.