Sarah-Clare Conlon

Patrisse Khan-Cullors discusses her illuminating memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, with writer and poet Jackie Kay. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival.

Professor Jean Sprackland will read new work from two forthcoming books: Green Noise, a collection of poems, and These Silent Mansions, a collection of essays about graveyards. Dead right.

Manchester City of Literature marks this year’s International Mother Language Day with a number of exciting events on and around 21 February.

Japanese writer and photographer Mariko Nagai and Tokyo-based Asia Editor of The Times Richard Lloyd Parry talk about Japan’s approach to disaster, natural and otherwise in this special International Mother Language Day event.

The Manchester Writing series returns to the Burgess Foundation for 2018 with a celebration of International Mother Languages Day, featuring readings from poets Mary Jean Chan, Andrew Naffis-Sahely and David Shook, also in conversation with Helen Mort.

To celebrate International Mother Languages Day and Manchester’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature, join a day of poetry translation workshops with Mary Jean Chan, André Naffis-Sahely, David Shook and the Poetry Translation Centre.

Head to the Martin Harris Centre to celebrate the UNESCO City of Literature’s International Mother Language Day with a special Centre for New Writing Literature Live event with Ugandan writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi.

Incredible stories from the Refugee Tales anthologies are read by Ian Duhig and others as part of Manchester’s UNESCO City of Literature International Mother Language Day series, this event at Rochdale Pioneers Museum.

International Mother Language Day is marked with Manchester Met’s first-ever poetry Mushaira, an evening of Urdu poetry featuring Zahid Hussain, Manchester Muslim Writers and Anjum Malik.

Join literature organisation Commonword on International Mother Language Day as part of Manchester’s UNESCO City of Literature series, with three poets reading from their work in the splendid surroundings of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House.

The longest running artists’ book fair outside London celebrates its 21st anniversary, hosting over 50 stalls run by artists, collectives and independent publishers over the weekend.