The newly formed Manchester Song Collective invites you to an evening showcase of eight new poems by young poets that have been put to music by young composers from the universities of Manchester. This showcase is the culmination of months of collaboration and we are very excited to present these new songs all based on […]
Join us at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation on Thursday 20th February when we’ll be welcoming Ben Aaronovitch to Manchester to celebrate the release of his brand new Rivers Of London novel ‘False Value’. Ben will be in conversation with Micah Yongo, author of ‘Lost Gods’ and ‘Pale Kings’, to talk fantastical worlds and magical […]
Join Mat Osman, author and bassist of Suede, in conversation with Stuart Maconie, to discuss Mat’s magnificent debut novel The Ruins, which Ian Rankin has called a “complex, woozily dream-like novel about music, mystery and imagined worlds.” London, 2010: Icelandic volcanoes have the city in gridlock, banks topple like dominoes and Brandon Kussgarten has been […]
We are delighted to welcome the prize-winning translator and critic Enrico Terrinoni to give a talk at the Burgess Foundation on James Joyce and Anthony Burgess. James Joyce was Anthony Burgess’s greatest influence as a writer. Joyce’s work inspired Burgess’s novels, music, films and critical writing, including the book Joysprick. Enrico Terrinoni (pictured), a world-famous […]
The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing in partnership with Creative Manchester presents Luke Brown and Emma Jane Unsworth Luke Brown grew up in Fleetwood, Lancashire, and now lives in London, although he is frequently in Manchester to teach at the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester. His debut My Biggest […]
The keynote event for the HIV/AIDS in the 21st Century: Memorialisation, Representation & Temporality academic conference will be a reading from poet Danez Smith, who will read from their work before being joined on stage by Keisha Thompson for a Q&A session. Danez Smith is a Black, Queer, Poz writer, and one of the foremost […]
The “Love Writing Manchester” series launch event in celebration of the Romantic Novelists Association’s 60th Anniversary, with special guest author Debbie Johnson. A celebration for Manchester Metropolitan University staff, students, RNA members, publishing professionals, authors and the general public. If you love reading or writing romantic fiction, come along to meet authors, Manchester Met academics […]
Bleak landscapes, empty hearts, insignificant lives, dystopian futures, extinction, limbo, uncertainty, death. A beautiful void or a horrific state of being. The simple complexity of nothingness. A new anthology of short stories that take place when everything has gone, in the empty spaces that are left, and with the people that cling to a last […]
An exclusive concert and spoken word performance by the No Dice Collective highlighting six unusual objects from the Anthony Burgess archive, commissioned by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Manchester native Anthony Burgess led a fascinating life, and No Dice Collective has been rifling through the objects he left behind for the past four months. There will […]
Loss takes many forms – from losing a precious watch to the loss of an important relationship. Loss comes, too, in a spectrum of experiences: the shattering death of a loved one, the loss of a country you’ve had to leave, the loss of a job you enjoyed – right down to the mundane annoyance […]