An Evening with MMU Writers at International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Sarah-Clare Conlon, Literature Editor

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An Evening with MMU Writers

13 June 2017

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Writer Kim Moore will be at Burgess Foundation.
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Not content with running a multi-award winning live literature night at The Castle every month, Bad Language recently popped up at Elizabeth Gaskell’s house during Manchester After Hours, and now they’ve joined forces with researcher collective Feminisms in Public. The result is An Evening with MMU Writers, featuring ten writers from Manchester Metropolitan University, each responding creatively to the theme of gender and sexuality.

One of those taking to the stage is our very own Exhibitions Editor Polly Checkland Harding, who has had short stories published in Confingo, Lighthouse and The Manchester Anthology. Short story writer and novelist Nicholas Royle is head judge of the Manchester Fiction Prize, runs Nightjar Press and is as an editor for Salt Publishing. In the prose corner, they are joined by Sue Fox, author of transgressive novel The Visceral Tear, and Michael Stewart, who won The Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize with his debut novel King Crow.

Representing the poets are Kim Moore, whose collection If We Could Speak Like Wolves was chosen as an Independent Book of the Year in 2012; Bridport Prize-winning Mark Pajak, and Zaffar Kunial, who has a pamphlet in the Faber New Poets series and was Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust.

Natalie Burdett’s poems have been published with Ink, Sweat & Tears and Under the Radar, and she has been shortlisted for the London Magazine and Bridport prizes; Rachel Davies has been a winner in the Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition and is on the organising committee of regular live lit event Poets & Players, and Hilary Robinson has had work published by The Interpreter’s House, Avis, Obsessed by Pipework, Morning Star and Beautiful Dragons Press.

Ten writers, all for free – the event is currently full up, but get your name on the Eventbrite wait list sharpish and you might well be in with the chance of getting your mitts on a return!

 

Where to go near An Evening with MMU Writers at International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Manchester
Café or Coffee Shop
Burgess Cafe Bar
at IABF

Small but perfectly-formed café – which also serves as the in-house bookstore, stocking all manner of Burgess-related works, along with recordings of his music. It’s a welcoming space, with huge glass windows making for a bright, welcoming atmosphere.

Dog Bowl bowling alley and restaurant Manchester.
Manchester
Bar or Pub
Dog Bowl

A bar and 10-pin bowling alley combined, Dog Bowl is a neon-lit venue that serves up cocktails and Tex-Mex food to go with your time on the lanes.

The Ritz Manchester live music venue
Manchester
Music venue
The Ritz

The Ritz was originally a dance hall, built in 1928, has hosted The Beatles, Frank Sinatra and The Smiths and is still going strong as a gig venue now.

Gorilla, Whitworth street Manchester
Manchester
Bar or Pub
Gorilla

Gorilla is a good choice for breakfast, lunch or dinner. From a hearty full English to meaty burgers via good vegan and veggie options. It also hosts some of the

HOME Manchester
Manchester
Theatre
HOME Manchester

Offering a packed schedule of events and things to do, HOME Manchester is one of the city’s leading hubs for arts and culture.

Manchester
Restaurant
Indian Tiffin Room, Manchester

Indian Tiffin Room is a restaurant specialising in Indian street food, with branches in Cheadle and Manchester. This is the information for the Manchester venue.

The Modernist shop
Manchester
Shop
Modernist Society

The bricks and mortar The Modernist shop opened in May 2019 in the Northern Quarter and is the only bookshop in Manchester specialising in architecture and design.

Rain Bar pub in Manchester
City Centre
Bar or Pub
Rain Bar

This huge three-floor pub, formerly a Victorian warehouse, then an umbrella factory (hence the name), has one of the city centre’s largest beer gardens. The two-tier terrace overlooks the Rochdale canal and what used to be the back of the Hacienda, providing an unusual, historic view of the city.

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