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Find out more about what we do here at City of Literature. Whether it’s our big events like Festival of Libraries or International Mother Language Day celebrations, or projects produced in partnership with literary organisations around the City, you’ll find everything you need here.
Countering climate anxiety with hope, confidence and inspiration: The RoundView is a toolkit for sustainability learning developed through research at the University of Manchester. Manchester City of Literature has been working with the RoundView team to…
The Manchester City of Literature Community Champions programme engages communities in Greater Manchester that are not accessing literature on their own terms. In 2021, the programme’s initial year, three Champions worked across Rusholme, Harpurhey and Moston;…
Talk About Talawa is our community podcasting project that builds on our Community Champions engagement project for NHS Untold Stories and Windrush 75. Working with Reform Radio and Assistant Producer Kim, we engaged first and second…
Threads is a new physical and digital exhibition of multilingual writing and material from UNESCO Cities of Literature. Textiles and threads are deeply woven through our city’s history. Manchester and the surrounding towns were long recognised…
Over the last three years, with funding from arts councils in four nations, Pop Up Projects – a London-based children’s literature agency – produced an ambitious LGBTQ+ literature creation project called The Rainbow Library. The Rainbow…
Our ongoing Re:Sound project pairs musicians with archives around Greater Manchester. The artists connect with librarians and archivists to uncover historic material which explored a range of themes that have so far included Manchester’s textile history,…
SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER FIVE RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKING MONTHLY WALKS THROUGH GORTON AND ABBEY HEY WITH THE WRITER SARAH BUTLER. Each month a different person led the walk around the parks, houses, work places, neglected corners…
The Manchester City of Literature Schools Writing Trail showcases the ‘best of the best’ of student writing across Greater Manchester, offering a literature trail in conjunction with Manchester’s Festival of Libraries. The Schools Writing Trail is…
Manchester City of Literature and partners have introduced Manchester’s inaugural team of Multilingual City Poets, three talented creatives who have been appointed to produce a series of original works on behalf of the City. The City’s…
The Digital Manchester Literature Map was created by the partnership of organisations that make up Manchester City of Literature, to showcase the stories, poems, performances so closely linked to our city. Click the icons…
Held every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Practiced throughout history – in every culture and on every continent – poetry…
Manchester City of Literature, in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University, Nanjing City of Literature and 42nd Street are delighted to announce the launch of a new project, Connectedness Through Comics. The partnership were keen to explore…
The spoken word version of Eurovision, hosted by the UNESCO Cities of Literature — where each City slams their way to the grand title of Slamovision Champion every year! The UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature hold…
There are about 6,500 languages in the world, and 200 languages spoken in Manchester at any one time.
Manchester City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries returns for 2024. This county-wide celebration of Greater Manchester’s 133 libraries takes place annually across the city. The festival, which is supported by Arts Council England, features a vibrant…
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