What’s On

Manchester City of Literature is inspired by the possibilities from our city to bring people together to celebrate stories. You’ll find everything that’s going on here, whether you’re a reader, a writer, you want to support independent publishers or are looking for something to entertain you or young children. Don’t forget that you can add your own events here too, if you’re an organiser. 

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Short story writing with Tania Hershman (6 sessions)

Location: Hope Mill Theatre
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Central Library Work Club

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Moss Side Powerhouse Job Club with IT Support

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Young Identity: Writing Workshop (HOME)

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Young Identity: Writing Workshop (HOME)

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Young Idenitity: Writing Workshop (Central Library)

Location: Manchester Central Library
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Young Identity: Writing Workshop (Old Trafford)

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Paul Cookson: The Man Who Launched a Thousand Poems

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PN Review at Fifty: Launch at the Portico Library

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Online Talk: Song of the Shirt

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Neluka Silva in conversation with Monique Roffey

Location: Manchester Poetry Library
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Henry Normal: Collected Poems and Other Landfill

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Feed the Fox life writing series

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How to Write Historical Fiction Masterclass with Kate Mosse

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Kate Mosse in Conversation Hosted by Beth Underdown

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Deborah Levy

Location: Manchester Central Library
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Max Porter presents Shy

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Elif Shafak: My Life in Books

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An Evening with Zadie Smith

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Lauren Groff

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Michael Lewis: Flash Boys & New Tycoons

Location: Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
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Natalie Haynes

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Richard Armitage

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Annie Macmanus

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Brian Bilston

Location: Waterside Arts
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Terrance Hayes, Anthony Anaxagorou & Selina Nwulu

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Little Reads Family Day at Central Library with Nathan Bryon & Dapo Adeola

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Michael Morpurgo’s I Believe in Unicorns

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Park Write – Spooky Season

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New Commission: Jason Allen-Paisant

Location: Manchester Art Gallery
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Little Reads Family Day at Z-arts with Nathan Bryon & Dapo Adeola

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An Evening with Linton Kwesi Johnson

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New Commission: Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

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Gaia Vince in Conversation

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The Book of Beijing – Gu Shi & Wen Zhen

Location: International Anthony Burgess Foundation
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Simon Armitage

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George Monbiot in Conversation with Sarah Bridle

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New Commission: Cities Untold

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Karl Ove Knausgaard in Conversation

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Talks on Contemporary Basque Literature: Katixa Aguirre

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Sandra Newman

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Decolonising My Body with Afua Hirsch

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The Sound of Poetry

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PNR at 50 Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Sasha Dugdale & Will Harris

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Lisa Nandy

Location: Manchester Central Library
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Like and Unlike – Putting Poems into Conversation

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creative:connection

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creative:connection

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Monica Heisey & Sheena Patel

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Skateboard Drawing Club with Ed Syder

Location: Projekts
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Kwame Dawes Masterclass: The Art Of / In Obsession

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Skateboard Drawing Club with Ed Syder

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Cabaret for Freedom

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October Half Term at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

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Jeremy Deller

Location: HOME
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Jeanette Winterson

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Online Talk: Ann Radcliffe and the Female Gothic – ‘A genius of no common stamp’

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Late Gifts by Richard Price: Carcanet Online Book Launch

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Alexander Goehr: Composing a Life with the Villiers Quartet

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Yeats to Music (concert)

Location: Irish World Heritage Centre
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Online Event: Shirley – Charlotte Brontë and The Industrial Novel

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Modern literatures in Spain

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Online Tour of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

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Thurston Moore in Conversation

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Our Stories Conference

Location: Manchester Poetry Library
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Doon Mackichan in Conversation

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Online talk: North and South – The Preston Lockouts Anniversary

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Naomi Alderman in Conversation

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Online Talk: Victorian Christmas in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester

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