Manchester Literature Festival present a special event with artist, author and punk icon Viv Albertine talking about her new memoir To Throw Away Unopened with acclaimed author Jeanette Winterson.
From £10.00
Poet, playwright and founding editor of Riggwelter Press Amy Kinsman launches her debut pamphlet &. She is joined by Kate Garrett-Nield and Pete Green, plus open mic performers, for a night of words.
Free entry
One of the country’s leading poets, Benjamin Zephaniah visits the RNCM as part of his first tour in eight years, to mark the publication of his autobiography. Expect insightful stories from throughout his remarkable life, as well as a selection of his favourite poetry.
From £20
This month’s theme is coming of age, and who doesn’t have something to say about that, wonder hosts Joanna Howard and Zena Barrie. Join them, headliners Joe Stretch, James Friel and Quina Chapman, and a line-up of open mic acts to find out.
Free entry
The Gardeners Rest is a community run pub in Neepsend, Sheffield.
As fellow avant-garders The Other Room take their final bows on 18 April, the Peter Barlow’s Cigarette gang have invited the three TOR organisers James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston to read together at this very special free event.
Free entry
Get your hands on a signed copy of Centre for New Writing’s Burgess Fellow Joanna Walsh’s latest novel, Break.up, and hear her chat about her work with the University of Manchester’s Dr Kaye Mitchell.
From £4.50
To mark the launch of their first graphic novel collaboration, The Three Rooms in Valerie’s Head, artist Dan Berry and writer David Gaffney will be chatting and signing copies at this relaxed Saturday-afternoon event.
Free entry
Launch of the latest anthology from Manchester-based Carcanet Press. Edited by Carcanet’s own Michael Schmidt, New Poetries VII is the most diverse volume yet and features promising, upcoming poets from a range of backgrounds, some reading tonight.
Latest First Draft night dedicated to telling tales from museum collections. Take a pew and experience comedy, poetry, music and stories all inspired by the amazing sporting history of Cheetham Hill.
From £5.00
Manchester Poets (previously Manky Poets) sees a readaround in the first half, giving everyone the opportunity to perform, and a guest poet. This month, Sarah L Dixon is back on this side of the Pennines to launch new pamphlet The Sky Is Cracked.
Free entry
To coincide with the anniversary of The National Blind March and a centenary of a number of women getting the vote, WCML welcomes contributors from the Comma Press anthology Protest: Stories of Resistance.
Free entry
