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Manchester Literature Festival: The Working Class Library Live Podcast

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Join writer and editor Richard Benson (The Farm, The Valley) and Claire Malcolm (CEO of New Writing North) from the Working Class Library podcast as they seek to explore and reclaim working-class people’s contribution to English literature. Their quest is to establish a new ‘canon’ of working-class books that tell a different story to the established British literary canon.

For this live edition of the podcast, they will be joined by special guest, poet and writer Helen Mort (Ethel, The Illustrated Woman) to discuss Jeanette Winterson’s seminal rites of passage novel, Oranges are not the Only Fruit, which celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year.

The Working Class Library podcast is a venture of The Bee, a new magazine of writing by working class writers published by New Writing North.

Advance tickets for this event are now available for MLF Get Closer Members to buy. Memberships start at £25 per year – for full details of membership benefits and buying options click HERE. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Thursday 14 August at 10am.

Wheelchair Users and those with other access needs requiring a free Essential Carer ticket should contact the Quaytickets Box Office on 0161 876 2015 to purchase tickets.