Sarah-Clare Conlon

In HOME’s first live theatre experience since lockdown, resident performance poetry company Young Identity launch a collection inspired by the work they have produced over the first five years of HOME.

Join poet Sumita Chakraborty as she launches her debut poetry collection, Arrow, reading extracts from the new book and chatting about it with fellow Carcanet poet Jane Yeh.

Irenosen Okojie delivers the keynote speech for Comma’s National Creative Writing Industry Conference, in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University, this year taking place online over a full week.

Celebrate Libraries Week with Manchester Libraries and acclaimed author Sarah Butler, who will be in conversation and reading from her latest novel, Jack and Bet, which was published earlier this year.

Tune in on the evening of National Poetry Day for this unique online-only performance from the newly restored Dove Cottage, as Poet Laureate Simon Armitage reads his own and a selection of his favourite Wordsworth poems.

Acclaimed author of The North Water Ian McGuire will read from his new Manchester-based novel The Abstainer and chat about it with John McAuliffe, Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, in this online event hosted by Blackwell’s Bookshop.

Carcanet Press invite you online to celebrate the launch of Jon Glover’s latest poetry collection, Birdsong On Mars, hosted by fellow Carcanet poets John Whale and Rebecca Goss.

Manchester regular Verbose is back on the internet for a fourth time, touting “a trio of exciting young poets” taking on headline duties, Amy King, The Fragile Poet and Antony Szmierek, plus a talented bill of open mic performers.

Join Anna Percy and special guest Kate Garrett for an evening of superlative poetry to mark the launch of Anna’s latest book, Jumping Into A Waterfall, published by Flapjack Press.

Following two sell-out events in 2020, poet Kim Moore invites you to join her again for an experimental, audience-directed, choose-your-own-adventure event using live polls to help navigate through the online reading of her PhD thesis text.

The 16th Chorlton Book Festival offers a mix of free online webinars, performance poetry, readings by award-winning authors, specially commissioned video, and a strong line-up for children and young adults.

Championing women and non-binary writers, That’s What She* Said Live takes the critically acclaimed, award-winning night online for a 10th birthday party, featuring performers EMY.P, Malaika Kegode and Maria Ferguson.