Kate Feld has a book out and we couldn’t be happier – Deeryard is a new pamphlet of prose poetry and photographs, published by Manchester independent press Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers.
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Join Salena Godden as she presents her latest collection, With Love, Grief and Fury, at Liverpool’s WoWFest.
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Elizabeth Gaskell’s House in Manchester and the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth have once again teamed up, along with Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University and The Portico Library.
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Previously commissioned by MLF as writer-in-residence at the Midland Hotel, Olivia Laing returns to Manchester to talk about her latest book, The Garden Against Time.
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Head to Manchester Poetry Library for the first of three events in its brand-new spring/summer poetry reading series – which not only features prize-winning poets but is also completely free.
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Join readers and writers alike at this free event celebrating independent publishing. Peruse books from 16 publishers across genres including literary fiction, genre fiction, middle-grade and children’s, poetry and memoir.
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It’s the second Poets & Players of 2024, back at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation with an afternoon of words and music, featuring readings by Peter Sansom, Carrie Etter and Anita Pati.
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Presented in partnership with the Centre for New Writing, Creative Manchester and Waterstones Deansgate, best-selling author David Nicholls is one of the trailblazers of this year’s Manchester Literature Festival.
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We’re very excited about the launch of Rebecca Hurst’s debut poetry collection The Iron Bridge, published by Manchester’s Carcanet Press. The online event will feature a reading from the text and a chat about the book with host, poet Sarah Hesketh.
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Northern Lights Writers’ Conference is a full day’s shindig on the craft and business of writing for scribes at all stages of their career, from the unpublished to those already established with words in print.
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The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing’s Literature Live series continues apace, here welcoming Victoria Kennefick and Declan Ryan to Blackwell’s Bookshop to read from their new poetry and talk about them with John McAuliffe.
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Lancaster’s annual literature festival is back, celebrating 45 years with a full programme in person or virtually from 15 to 26 March.
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