The White Review Prize-winning writer Ruby Cowling launches her debut short story collection, This Paradise, with Boiler House Press, with readings and a chat to Bristol Prize winner Valerie O’Riordan.
Free entry
International activist, author and actor Rose McGowan is headlining the second Storyhouse Women Weekend festival taking place at the city arts venue 26 to 28 April, discussing her bestselling memoir/manifesto Brave.
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Head to the newly opened Blackwell’s Manchester to hear Nicole Flattery introduce her debut Bloomsbury short story collection Show Them A Good Time and Daisy Johnson read from her 2018 Man Booker Prize shortlisted first novel Everything Under.
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Manchester celebrates this year’s International Mother Language Day through a number of exciting events taking place in various venues around the city.
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Join Comma Press for a special day of free workshops and talks offering advice and insight into the world of translation; part of the annual International Mother Language Day celebrations.
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Sale Waterside welcomes back Chocolat author and NLWC18 keynote speaker Joanne Harris, this time bringing along her #Storytime show for an evening of live readings, music and projections.
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Regular ‘afternoon of alternative poetries’ Peter Barlow’s Cigarette kicks off the new year with #30 and heads to the Northern Quarter with a special showcase of four poets: Dan Eltringham, Ágnes Lehóczky, Denise Riley and Gareth Twose.
Free entry
Join Carol Ann Duffy and the Manchester Writing School team as they award the £20,000 Manchester Poetry and Fiction Prizes 2019 – and celebrate eleven years of the Manchester Writing Competition with some special guests and an all-star line-up.
Poetry at the regular free event at Whitworth Art Gallery comes courtesy Lavinia Greenlaw and Daljit Nagra, while the musical slot is filled by Thelonious Monk-inspired Blind Monk Trio.
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Poets & Players is back for 2019, with poetry from Colette Bryce, Kit Fan and Martin Kratz, plus music from Kell Wind Trio.
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One of the rising stars of British literature, Max Porter’s multi-award-winning debut novel Grief Is The Thing With Feathers has been followed up with the equally dark and funny Lanny, which he will be reading from and discussing with Luke Brown, Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing and author of My Biggest Lie.
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Join best-selling The Humans and Reasons To Stay Alive author Matt Haig for his guide to navigating the modern world, as outlined in his new memoir, Notes On A Nervous Planet.
From £15.5
