Sarah-Clare Conlon

A Lovely Word is a regular on the Liverpool live lit scene, bringing poetry and spoken word to the Everyman stage for nearly a decade.

Various independent publishing houses set out their stalls at the Northern Publishers’ Fair at Manchester Central Library.

Didsbury Arts Festival has plenty to offer the connoisseur of fine words in this year’s programme, from live literature events to writing workshops.

Kemang Wa Lehulere collaborates with 11 Manchester writers and over 100 residents of the city to create a surprising collection of love letters – a new book for Central Library.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s powerful reflection on family, love and loss journeys from page to stage in Rae McKen’s new production.

Be the first to experience new work at MIF’s future year-round home with a special installation bringing the natural world into the heart of the city – created especially for the site by director Deborah Warner.

Join Jamaican-born, Leeds-based poet Jason Allen-Paisant as he launches Thinking With Trees, his debut collection.

The Reader’s Spoken Word evenings at the Mansion House are back, but for now they’ll be venturing outdoors into the Secret Garden at Calderstones.

As part of the inaugural Manchester Festival Of Libraries, you’re invited to an evening in with three very different writers who have lived, worked or studied in the city: Lara Williams, Oliver Harris and Keith Hutson.

Join independent publishers Arachne Press as three of their writers read new work and discuss the differences between short stories and flash fiction and flash fiction and poetry.

Andrew McMillan’s third collection, pandemonium, is out with Jonathan Cape on 20 May, and this online event will see him reading from it and having an in-depth chat about it with his colleague in the Manchester Writing School, Forward Prize-winning Malika Booker.

Manchester Literature Festival’s latest spring guest is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Jhumpa Lahiri. Jhumpa will be in conversation with novelist and MLF Patron Kamila Shamsie, who won the 2018 Women’s Prize For Fiction.