Sarah-Clare Conlon

Kendal Poetry Festival is this year hybrid, both in real life and online, from 23 to 26 June to showcase workshops, talks and performances.

Judith Willson celebrates the launch of her second poetry collection, Fleet, with an online reading and discussion with fellow Carcanet Press poet Helen Tookey. 

American poet and historian, GC Waldrep launches his first UK poetry collection, The Earliest Witnesses, with Manchester’s Carcanet Press.

Huddersfield Literature Festival is back with a packed programme this May, and this Polari-themed special caught our eye, featuring writers including Okechukwu Nzelu and Rosie Garland.

Housmans Bookshop and Comma Press have joined forces to host two online events featuring readings from the Protest anthology by renowned British actors Christopher Eccleston and Maxine Peake.

The annual Manchester In Translation conference – part of the global International Mother Language Day celebrations – heads online for three days in 2021, with a series of free masterclasses and talks for budding translators and those with a passion for languages.

Join poets Kyle Lovell and Maria Sledmere as they co-launch their new pamphlets, alongside readings from four guest readers, including Nell Osborne of Manchester’s very own premier avant reading series No Matter and contributor to Manchester Review of Books.

Head to the Working Class Movement Library – virtually, of course – for an evening of poems as former poet-in-residence Oliver James Lomax reads from his new collection, The Dandelion Clock.

Joining editor James Keery to discuss new Carcanet title Apocalypse: An Anthology will be John Clegg, Carcanet poet and bookseller at the London Review Bookshop, and the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage.

Head on over to the Little People’s History Museum without leaving your own home… get ready for bed and settle in for a livestreamed story.

The inaugural Cooper Prize picks up where the prestigious and long-running South Yorkshire Open left off, and invites submissions from artists at all stages in their career, be they established professionals and amateurs or emerging recent graduates and students.

Cranford is one of Elizabeth Gaskell’s most popular works, and the spring series of online talks from Elizabeth Gaskell’s House is the perfect way to discover or rediscover the Victorian classic.