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The Complete Works: Jackie Kay

16:00 - 17:15 15 September 2019
Part of: The Complete Works: Year 1 – Hope & Resistance Editor, critic & broadcaster Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE curates and presents this brand-new series of in-depth interviews at…

The Complete Works: Gary Younge

18:45 - 20:00 1 October 2019
Part of: The Complete Works: Year 1 – Hope & Resistance Editor, critic & broadcaster Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE presents a brand-new series of in-depth interviews at HOME, in partnership…

Literature Live: Paul Muldoon and Alice Oswald

19:30 - 20:45 3 October 2019
Join us for a reading by two of the finest English-language poets at work in the world today. Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951 and, since 1987, has lived in the United…

An Interactive Schools' Poetry Performance with John Hegley

10:30 - 11:30 4 October 2019
An Interactive Schools’ Poetry Performance with John Hegley English performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter National Poetry Day is the annual mass celebration of poetry…

Literature Live: David Nicholls in Conversation

19:00 - 20:15 4 October 2019
Remember the summer you left school and fell in love for the first time? Charlie Lewis, the protagonist of David Nicholl’s excellent new novel Sweet Sorrow does. But Charlie also has…

Jeanette Winterson: Frankissstein

19:30 - 20:45 5 October 2019
Manchester Literature Festival and the Centre for New Writing are delighted to host one of our most innovative contemporary writers, Jeanette Winterson, performing a unique, one-woman…

Literature Live: Common People

15:00 - 16:15 5 October 2019
Where are all the working-class writers? Right here. In the anthology Common People, editor Kit de Waal, author of My Name Is Leon sets out to convey the diversity of working-class…

Literature Live: Isabel Galleymore & Stephen Sexton

19:00 - 20:15 7 October 2019
We are delighted to welcome two of the most exciting debut poets of 2019, both shortlisted for this year’s Forward Prize. Stephen Sexton’s If All the World and Love Were Young (Penguin…

Literature Live: Jonathan Safran Foer

19:00 - 20:15 8 October 2019
Climate change is the greatest threat the world faces. In his brilliant new book, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Starts at Breakfast, Jonathan Safran Foer demystifies the science…

David Nott: War Doctor

19:00 - 20:15 9 October 2019
David Nott is the most experienced trauma surgeon in the world. In his fascinating book, War Doctor, he recounts learning to perform an emergency caesarean section in Kabul, following…

Literature Live: Elif Shafak

19:00 - 20:15 10 October 2019
Does anyone care about a sex worker, murdered and abandoned in Istanbul? Tequila Leila’s friends do. In her superb new novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, Elif Shafak…

2019 Booker Prize Shortlist

19:00 - 20:15 11 October 2019
Meet some of the authors of the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist at this special event at Manchester Literature Festival. The Booker Prize is a byword for the finest literary…

Literature Live: Hanif Kureishi in Conversation

19:30 - 20:45 12 October 2019
From The Buddha of Suburbia to The Black Album, Hanif Kureishi has inspired generations of young British writers and readers. In this MLF event, he discusses his award-winning fiction,…

Literature Live: Emilie Pine & Sinéad Gleeson

16:00 - 17:15 13 October 2019
Women’s bodies are the site of continued discussion, speculation and law-making, but in their outstanding essay collections, Notes to Self and Constellations, Irish writers Emilie Pine…

Literature Live: Ilya Kaminsky, Karen Solie & Vona Groarke

19:30 - 20:45 21 October 2019
Three internationally acclaimed poets read from their latest work. Karen Solie’s extraordinary new collection, The Caiplie Caves, is, says The Irish Times, ‘a great exhilaration of…

17th Annual Rylands Poetry Reading with Kei Miller, Sinéad Morrissey and Matthew Welton

18:00 - 19:15 21 November 2019
This year’s Rylands Reading inaugurates a year-long celebration of the 50th birthday of Manchester independent literary publishers, Carcanet Press. Our readers are three poets discovered…

The Complete Works: Kamila Shamsie

18:45 28 November 2019
Part of: The Complete Works: Year 1 – Hope & Resistance Editor, critic & broadcaster Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE curates and presents a brand-new series of in-depth interviews at HOME,…

Literature Live: Val McDermid & Denise Mina

19:00 - 20:15 30 November 2019
Queens of Crime, Val McDermid and Denise Mina, join us to discuss their brilliant new novels. In How the Dead Speak, Val brings Dr. Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan together again when…

Literature Live: Annual Caroline Chisholm Reading with Sara Collins

18:30 - 19:45 9 December 2019
This event honours the memory of writer Caroline Chisholm (MA Creative Writing, 2013), who was a valued member of the Centre for New Writing community. Sara Collins is of Jamaican descent…

The Complete Works: Christina Lamb

18:45 - 20:00 16 December 2019
Editor, critic & broadcaster Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE presents a brand-new series of in-depth interviews at HOME, in partnership with the University of Manchester, with a line-up…

The Complete Works: Aminatta Forna

19:00 - 20:15 20 January 2020
Part of: The Complete Works: Year 1 – Hope & Resistance Editor, critic & broadcaster Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE curates and presents this brand-new series of in-depth interviews at…

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