Sarah-Clare Conlon

Writer and journalist Adelle Stripe is heading to Serenity Booksellers for the launch of her memoir Base Notes: The Scents of a Life, an Observer pick for 2025.

Rebecca Watts launches her “vibrant third collection” The Face in the Well, out with Manchester’s Carcanet Press and hosted by the University of Manchester Centre for New Writing’s Vona Groarke.

Alan Hollinghurst was missed at Manchester Literature Festival back in October, but here he is to cheer up January, chatting to poet and novelist Andrew McMillan.

Spring 2025 sees the first in what promises to be a series of events to showcase work by alumni of the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.

At the prize-giving ceremony of the Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition 2024, there will be readings from the winning and highly commended poets, each responding to the ecopoetry theme.

Throughout 2025, Elizabeth Gaskell’s House is celebrating its tenth anniversary, having first opened to the public a decade ago.

The Poetry Place, the evening of poetry and spoken word hosted by Griot Gabriel, celebrates its third birthday with the annual Poetry Place Slam, featuring 10 performers and headlined by PA Bitez.

Blah! Blah!! Blah!!! Writers For Café Blah: A #SaveCaféBlah Fundraiser is a reading event that brings together loads of fantastic writers serving up wonderful words.

If you missed Oliver James Lomax at Word Central recently, then, fear not, as he’s appearing at The Portico Library to read some of his latest poetry.

Just last year Mimi Khalvati received the King’s Gold Medal for Poetry, awarded for excellence in poetry, so it seems perfect timing that Manchester’s Carcanet Press launches her Collected Poems.

Brand new from Manchester Metropolitan University is a festival of poetry readings, panel discussions and creative workshops led by academics to show how poems can inspire and change minds.

As part of the 2024 Farsley Literature Festival, join us in the shop as cosy crime writer Jonathan Hall chairs an evening of discussion with Tom Hindle and Rachel North. The panel will explore the lure of a glamorous location for thriller writers.