This event sees the announcement of the winner of The Novella Award, which aims to find the best up-and-coming writer of an unpublished short novel, plus the launch of the Words at Play Festival.
The Axis Arts Centre is the home to Manchester Metropolitan University’s Department of Contemporary Arts at the Cheshire campus in Crewe. The centre hosts a programme of performances, visual arts and creative exhibitions.
Andrew Michael Hurley’s debut novel, The Loney, won the 2015 Costa First Novel Award and was the British Book Awards’ Book of the Year 2016. Set on a desolate stretch of North West coastline, The Loney is an unsettling tale of landscape and mysticism.
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Since its launch in 2008, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s Manchester Writing Competition has attracted over 10,000 submissions from more than 50 countries and awarded £115,000 to its winners. Join us in the Baronial Hall at Manchester’s medieval Chetham’s Library to hear the announcement of this year’s prize.
An afternoon with Christopher Eccleston, Sheila Hancock, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Mike Joyce and Maxine Peake reading prose, poetry and drama telling tales of radicalism and revolution and raising funds for the Working Class Movement Library.
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Transition is a new festival in Bury town centre over two nights and a day. The festival for 2016 includes elements of light and sound, and the programme includes live music, sound sculptures, storytelling, flash fiction performances and workshops.
Free entry
Bolton’s leading bookshop stands at the heart of the town, its welcoming booksellers guiding customers through everything from bestselling fiction to specialist local interest titles.
Scribble Festival is a free creative writing event. Hear from award-winning poets, writers and musicians. Join in poetry/songwriting/flash fiction/zine-making workshops, a poetry slam and networking opportunities with publishers and organisations.
Charlotte Delaney, daughter of the late Salford-born playwright and ‘Morrissey muse’ Shelagh Delaney, premieres her play Sweet Responsibility, about friendship and activism between two 70-something women in Greater Manchester.
Free entry
Are you a creative writer with aspirations to be published? Come and pitch your ideas to literary agents and editors; learn about the writing life through panels, workshops and networking opportunities, and hear a keynote speech from poet and author Eley Williams.
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Poet and presenter of BBC Radio 3’s weekly The Verb programme, Ian McMillan returns to Rochdale Literature & Ideas Festival, this time appearing alongside his son Andrew, a multi-award winning poet in his own right.
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