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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Once Upon A Time

Location: Gallery Oldham
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Queer Fiction Short Story Course with Chloe De Lullington

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Elemental: Manchester Poetry Library Summer Exhibition by Jean Sprackland

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Storytimes at Stockport Libraries

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Coffee and Poems Club: Extended Cut

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The Storygarden at Irlam Library

Location: Irlam Library
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Storynook at Little Hulton Library

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New Storytelling Zone at People’s History Museum

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The Castle of Stories – Afternoon Tea with Matt Cain and Freya North

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Getting Published: What No One Tells You at Altrincham Library

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How Not to Save the World: Anthea Lawson in conversation

Location: Blackwell's Bookshop
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Chris Norris – Crime Author Talk at Festival of Libraries.

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Author Event – Carolyn O’Brien Rose & Renzo

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Join author Ashley Thorpe as part of the ‘See Myself in Books Festival’ tour in Salford

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Join author Farhana Islam as part of the ‘See Myself in Books Festival’ on tour in Wigan

Location: Leigh Library
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Transition Reads in Bolton

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Unlimited Residency – Sophie Woolley

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Maggie Grant – Author of Messy Heartfelt Love Stories

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Wimmy Road Boyz: Sufiyaan Salam with Tez Ilyas

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Book Exchange at the John Rylands Library

Location: John Rylands Research Institute and Library
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Join author Ashley Thorpe as part of the ‘See Myself in Books Festival’ on tour in Wigan

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Join author Farhana Islam as part of the ‘See Myself in Books Festival’ on tour in Salford

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Heartstone: KFOR AND KOSOVO +25 Event

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Eccles Library Comic Club

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Six Strikes: Crime Book Talk by Antonia Grave

Location: Great Moor Library
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Muslims in the Medieval European Imagination: With Saaleha Iqbal

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New York: A Literary Anthology – J. Michelle Coghlan in conversation

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An Evening with Terry Deary

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Manchester Literature Festival presents An Evening with Asako Yuzuki

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Storytelling: Los sueños de Ilán

Location: Instituto Cervantes
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Gorton Library Funday

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The Mind’s Eye in Reading

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Author Talk with Matt Cain

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Caroline Aherne: Rebel in Disguise – David Scott in conversation with Terri White

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Manchester Literature Festival presents Natalie Haynes

Location: Manchester Central Library
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Lines of Love and Resistance – An Evening of Ukrainian Poetry

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Word Central

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Helen of Knowhere: Makenna Goodman in conversation with Lara Williams

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An Evening with Katherine Arden

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Online Talk: Step into the Garden – The Language of Flowers in Cranford and other novels

Location: Online
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An Evening with Peter F. Hamilton

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In Conversation with Gab Torr

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Eva Gore-Booth: Irish radical poet, rebel and reformer

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Author Event – Nicholas Royle ‘Finders, Keepers’: The Secret Life of Second Hand Books

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Shared Reading at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

Location: Elizabeth Gaskell's House
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Exploring the Legacy of Islamic Empires with Justin Marozzi

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Manchester Literature Festival presents Andrew Sean Greer

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Minor Black Figures: Brandon Taylor in conversation with Simon Savidge

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Online Talk: Cranford For Beginners

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An Evening with Lucy Steeds

Location: Waterstones Deansgate
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The Book Hive MCR x An Evening with Shani Akilah

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Agatha Christie Day

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Author Event: ‘Natural Disaster’ by Lisa Owens

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Celebrate Heartstopper 6: Quiz Night

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The Nerve presents Dave Eggers in Conversation: Contrapposto

Location: International Anthony Burgess Foundation
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THE KNIGHT WATCH: Thomas D. Lee in conversation

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An Evening with Bobby Palmer and Claire Daverley

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Meet The Heirs with Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

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A 12th Century Novel: Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān by Ibn Tufail, Andulusian novelist

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An Evening with Veronica Roth

Location: Waterstones Deansgate
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Online Event: Harriet Martineau – ‘Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare’

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Love Stories Etc: Romantic Fiction Festival

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Big Books Quiz Night

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An Evening with Andrea Mara and Shari Lapena

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A Conversation with Novelist Diana Abu-Jaber

Location: Online
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Manchester Literature Festival presents an Evening with Mieko Kawakami

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Elizabeth Gaskell’s Gothic Fiction: An Introduction

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Anthony Scaramucci: The All The Wrong Moves Tour

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Enter ‘THE CASTLE’ with Jon Ronson

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Manchester Literature Festival presents An Evening with Marina Hyde

Location: Royal Northern College of Music
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Mothers of the Gothic – Writing the Supernatural

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Online Talk: Mothers of the Gothic – Writing the Supernatural

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Online Talk: Mary Shelley Beyond Frankenstein

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Online Talk: The Shadows of Salem: Myth V. Reality in Lois the Witch and Other Tales

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Elizabeth Gaskell V Anne Brontë – Monsters and Madmen

Location: Online
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Online Talk: Victorian Gothic – Haunted Houses and Night-time Terrors

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Online Event: Elizabeth Gaskell V George Eliot – The Moorland Cottage V The Mill on the Floss

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