Join the The Centre for New Writing’s graduating Master’s students as they present The Manchester Anthology (Vol. 16). The evening will include live readings from some of the city’s most exciting fiction, non-fiction, and poetry writers, followed by a complimentary drinks reception. Admission is free, but you must register a ticket for entry. The venue […]
Please join Poets & Players on Saturday 28 November 2026, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. The event is free and everyone is welcome (no need to book tickets). Performers often bring along books and CDs to sell, please note we are only able to accept […]
Please join Poets & Players on Saturday 31 October 2026, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. The event is free and everyone is welcome (no need to book tickets). Performers often bring along books and CDs to sell, please note we are only able to accept […]
Please join Poets & Players on Saturday 26 September 2026, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. The event is free and everyone is welcome (no need to book tickets). Performers often bring along books and CDs to sell, please note we are only able to accept […]
Manchester’s celebrated spoken word maestros Bad Language returns in October for another wild night of live literature. Bad Language will once again team up with the Cultural Welcome to bring another stellar line-up of poets, novelists and everything in-between. We’ll have a fabulous headliner, and there will be open mic slots available too. Bad Language […]
Join the Muslim Social Justice Initiative’s MSJI Press for a solidarity book launch of Dr Ali Tahrawi’s Do Genocides Have an Ending? in Manchester, featuring readings from the book and a timely community conversation. Written from the emergency rooms of the Gaza genocide, this book is the urgent first-hand testimony of a Palestinian doctor at […]
Join novelist and lecturer Alicia J Rouverol for a reading of her new story collection Granite Rock, and artist Andy Broadey for an exhibition of artwork featured in the book. In this stunning collection, women and girls grapple with socio-economic injustices: a ten-year-old American child witnesses coercion by the Corsican gendarme; deck hands spar in […]
Woman, Mapped is a powerful new anthology from the Rebecca Swift Foundation celebrating the complexity, resilience and creativity of women’s lives today. Published in collaboration with Fly On The Wall Press and curated by acclaimed poet and critic Jennifer Wong, the anthology features the work of Amy Acre, Janette Ayachi, Natalie Linh Bolderston, Claire Harnett-Mann, […]
Scottish poet, performer and theatre maker Ellen Renton is joined by Kate Ireland for the Manchester leg of her 2026 UK poetry tour. Ellen Renton is a poet, performer, and theatre maker from Edinburgh. Since performing her own work for the first time in 2015, she has read at venues including The Scottish Parliament, The […]
A celebration of CP Lee and the 60th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s pivotal 1966 concert at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall. The afternoon includes the book launch a timely re-issue of CP Lee’s highly-acclaimed account of the concert, Like the Night (Rebound) with some special guests, plus a full playing of the concert, both the mesmerising […]