Thea Lenarduzzi reads from her debut book Dandelions, winner of the 2020 Fitzcarraldo Editions / Mahler & LeWitt Studios Essay Prize, and talks about it to the University of Manchester Centre for New Writing’s co-director Kaye Mitchell.
From £3.00
The next event in The Portico’s Rewriting The North series, which celebrates writers and writing connected with the North of England, features Catherine Simpson and Adam Farrer.
From £3.00
Word Central is a long-standing live literature favourite at Central Library and features open mic performers and a special guest, brought to you by Manchester Libraries and Flapjack Press.
Free entry
Two of our favourite Manchester institutions – Peter Barlow’s Cigarette and Carcanet Press – are teaming up to present an afternoon of alternative poetries.
Free entry
Like place-writing, then this could be one for you, as Manchester-based writer and The Real Story co-organiser Adam Farrer launches his debut book Cold Fish Soup, winner of the 2021 NorthBound Book Award, at a reading and in conversation event with Portico Prize-shortlisted author and memoirist Jenn Ashworth.
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Manchester’s independent gay bookshop Queer Lit has teamed up with The Whitworth to bring you an evening with novelists Torrey Peters and Imogen Binnie.
From £8.00
Rescheduled from June, if you’re looking for some holiday reading, this might be the event you need, as Laura Kay, Lily Lindon and Bethany Rutter pop into the Blackwell’s shop to discuss life, love and identity, and their latest books – described as “three brilliant new laugh-out-loud romantic comedies”.
From £3.00
Join Carcanet Press online to celebrate the launch of Inspector Inspector by Jee Leong Koh, hosted by poet and lawyer Jerrold Yam.
From £2.00
Launching his first collection, Imperium, out now with Manchester’s Carcanet Press, poet Jay Gao will be chatting to Forward Prize-winning Will Harris.
From £2.00
It’s the second year of Leeds Poetry Festival with a week-long offer of events, mostly in real life at Left Bank and Hyde Park Book Club, but with some online action if you can’t make it in person.
Free entry
Historic real ale pub situated in the heart of the Woodhouse residential area, just over a mile north of Leeds City Centre.
Leeds’ newest live literature night Chemistry promises an exciting mixture of headline guests and open mic acts, all introduced by Leeds-based poet Joe Williams.
Free entry
