The Football Writing Festival is back in action at the National Football Museum, kicking off in Manchester on 2 November and running until 18 November.
From £13.00
In this closing event of Manchester Literature Festival Live, three Irish poets – Vona Groarke, Victoria Kennefick and John McAuliffe – come together to showcase their latest collections.
From £6
Manchester Literature Festival and Manchester Poetry Library have co-commissioned three acclaimed poets to create new works for Corridor of Light that capture their personal connections, memories and reflections of Oxford Road.
Free entry
Join Lucie McKnight Hardy, Vanessa Onwuemezi and Sarah Schofield at Blackwell’s on University Green as they each launch new short story collections with a touch of the uncanny.
From £5
The Book Of Barcelona online launch sees Manchester-based publisher Comma Press join forces with Leeds’ The Northern Short Story Festival to present the latest Reading The City anthology, in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes in Manchester and Leeds.
From £3
Trouble At’ Mill: Queen’s Mill Word Fest is a new literary festival taking place in Castleford, on the banks of the River Aire, featuring performers Toria Garbutt and Matt Abbott.
From £14
Poet Matt Abbott leads a free creative writing workshop for young people under the age of 26.
With the support of Manchester Independents, Kate Feld’s project is a chronicle of the writer’s experiences during the winter of 2020-21, documenting a single mother’s lived experience of the structural inequalities laid bare by the pandemic and offering a harrowing case study of how capitalism fails women.
Free entry
The unique European Poetry Festival European Camarade is back, bringing together poets to create brand-new work.
Free entry
Northern Lights Writers’ Conference is perfect for picking up tips and useful contacts in the publishing world – and you can choose to attend the eighth NLWC virtually or in real life, at CIT’s Waterside base.
From £7.50
Chorlton Book Festival is back for its 18th annual event both in real life, centring around the Chorlton Library hub, and also online, and this year you can enjoy performance poetry, Northern noir, family fun, and history and heritage.
Free entry
Dave Haslam takes his latest Art Decades tome All You Need Is Dynamite on a nationwide book tour, including Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield.
