Sarah-Clare Conlon

It’s the last of the autumn/winter 2020 season of online events from Young Identity, Manchester’s young spoken word performance collective.

Head to Norwich, virtually of course, and join the monthly Café Writers gathering as they welcome the Quiet Compere Sarah L Dixon and Seamus Heaney Prize-shortlisted Tom Sastry to their poetry Zoom room.

John Birtwhistle launches his new poetry collection, In The Event, reading from the book and chatting about it with Hugh Haughton.

Join the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Nicholas Royle and Lara Williams as they discuss the fine art of the short story and their latest work in the genre.

Two award-winning writers from the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University Simon Stephens and Alex Wheatle discuss Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series of films for the BBC. Free entry

Join Carcanet for their final online book launch of the year: the Collected Poems of Manchester-born writer Anthony Burgess.

The latest in the University of Sheffield’s Centre for Poetry and Poetics reading series presents four writers featured in the Wretched Strangers anthology edited by Agnes Lehóczky and JT Welsch: Iris Colomb, Richard Parker, Jèssica Pujol Duran and Virna Teixeira.

The seventh consecutive Northern Lights Writers’ Conference presents a series of free online events for emerging and established writers, with recorded events still available to watch online via the Diverge digital hub.

The youngest Portico Prize winner Jessica Andrews talks to journalist Anita Sethi about her debut Saltwater and the freedom she found in writing fiction.

Join Libraries Sheffield online for this free panel discussion around the Comma Press book Resist: Stories of Uprising, when author Zoe Lambert, historical consultant Jo Blackman and broadcaster Bidisha will focus on women’s rebellion through the ages.

Award-winning North Yorkshire indie Valley Press invite you to join Anne Caldwell and Matthew Hedley Stoppard as they launch their latest collections – fourth for Anne and second for Matthew – with an open mic section to round off proceedings.

This first-ever online event hosted by Manchester-based indie publishing project zimZalla will feature readings by and discussion with Philip Terry, editor of The Penguin Book of Oulipo, whose miscellany of interactive Oulipian text objects TURNS was recently published by zimZalla, and Sophie Herxheimer, whose zimZalla object Index, a collection of collaged index cards is published in early 2021.