Literature Events in Manchester and the North
Sarah-Clare Conlon, Literature EditorOur reading matter lately has included lots of festival programmes, with Manchester Literature Festival already underway and Litfest in Lancaster due to start very soon.
Visitors from around the world are in abundance in the UNESCO Manchester City of Literature, where we’re also looking forward to the continuing autumn season of Poets & Players at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and the continuing Weird As Folk exhibition and events programme at the Portico Library.
Online, there’s a host of talks about Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Wives and Daughters – along with a Halloween special all about literary vampires…
We’re also getting spooked in Liverpool at the Modern Gothic launch and we’re heading out and about to see big names Jodi Picoult in Bramhall and Tracy Chevalier in Leeds. Some of our favourite alternative reading series have some amazing line-ups: check out More Song in Bradford, Peter Barlow’s Cigarette in Manchester and Poetry at the Dusty Miller in Mytholmroyd.
And finally be sure to riffle through our Bookshops in Manchester Guide and explore our literary places in Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Cumbria.