Past events

Manchester Literature Festival 2024 poetry reading with Gillian Clarke

18:00 - 19:15 10 October 2024

‘Clarke has a direct line to the natural world. She paints the Welsh landscape without idealising...

MLF 2024: An Evening with Meera Sodha

18:30 - 19:45 9 October 2024

‘The ability to put a good dinner on the table has become my superpower and I want it to become yo...

MLF 2024: Humanise with Thomas Heatherwick

18:00 - 19:15 8 October 2024

‘Humanise is a masterwork.’ Alain de Botton One of the world’s most prolific designers, Thoma...

Manchester Literature Festival: Lindsey Hilsum

15:30 - 16:45 6 October 2024

‘I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a...

Manchester Literature Festival: David Peace at HOME

18:00 - 19:15 6 October 2024

Limbs and hearts may be broken, but the spirit remains. Their message is that the club is not dead....

Manchester Literature Festival 2024: Caroline Lucas

13:30 - 14:45 5 October 2024

‘Engaging, illuminating and ultimately uplifting, Another England opens the path to a renewed coun...

MLF 2024: Jackie Kay: A Life in Poetry and Protest

18:00 - 19:15 5 October 2024

Festival favourite Jackie Kay (Red Dust Road) returns to celebrate her new poetry collection May Day...

SCAFFOLDING and THE ORANGE ROOM: Lauren Elkin & Rosie Price in conversation

17:30 - 19:00 10 July 2024

We're delighted to be hosting the Manchester launch of Lauren Elkin's SCAFFOLDING and Rosie Price's...

Writing for Wellbeing (Festival of Libraries 2024)

10:00 - 12:00 15 June 2024

Expressing yourself and crafting an object have long been studied and considered a way to relieve st...

Writing for Wellbeing (Festival of Libraries 2024)

12:00 - 14:00 14 June 2024

Expressing yourself and crafting an object have long been studied and considered a way to relieve st...