Past events
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Manchester Literature Festival presents Tayari Jones
2 June - 23 September 2026
Manchester Literature Festival is delighted to welcome bestselling author Tayari Jones to discuss her highly anticipated new novel Kin. Born days apart in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, Vernice and Annie grow up inseparable, bound by a shared loss: neither will ever know her mother. Coming of age in segregated...
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Manchester Literature Festival presents Douglas Stuart
26 May - 23 September 2026
We’re delighted to welcome back to Manchester Literature Festival Booker Prize-winning novelist Douglas Stuart, to discuss his profoundly moving new novel John of John, set on the Isle of Harris. Returning home after his art school years on the mainland, John-Calum Macleod is drawn back into a tightly...
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Jeanette Winterson (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
19:00 - 20:15 11 November 2025
Forty years after her era-defining debut Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson returns with One Aladdin Two Lamps - a bold, brilliant celebration of the transformative power of storytelling and a radical look at the future. Written in Jeanette’s unique style, One Aladdin Two Lamps, cracks...
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Mimi Khalvati: Rylands Poetry Reading (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
18:00 - 19:15 23 October 2025
Join us for the annual Rylands Poetry Reading, this year delivered by one of our best-loved poets Mimi Khalvati. Her award-winning lyrical poetry has been inspired by everything from her Persian background to her travels in the Mediterranean. She employs a variety of poetic forms from sonnets to ghazals...
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The Poems of Seamus Heaney (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
18:30 - 19:45 20 October 2025
Don’t miss this special evening celebrating the life and work of Seamus Heaney, as five acclaimed poets gather to mark the publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney. The definitive edition of his work, it encompasses all the poems that Seamus published in his lifetime (from Death of a Naturalist (1966)...
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Marcus du Sautoy (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
15:30 - 16:45 19 October 2025
In this fascinating talk, celebrated mathematician and leading scientist Marcus du Sautoy invites us to explore his new book Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity and rethink the boundaries between art and mathematics. From prehistoric stone circles to Zaha Hadid’s sweeping curves, to Shakespeare’s...
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Sayaka Murata (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
18:00 - 19:15 18 October 2025
Sayaka Murata, the internationally acclaimed author of Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings, joins us to discuss her provocative and visionary new novel, Vanishing World. In a society where sex, love and parenting have been reimagined, Amane—born from a taboo act of love—struggles to conform....
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Sarah Hall and Daisy Johnson (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
14:00 - 15:15 11 October 2025
Join us for a captivating afternoon with two of Britain’s most original literary talents, Sarah Hall and Daisy Johnson, as they discuss their haunting new books exploring nature, myth, folklore and the female body. In Helm, Sarah Hall (twice Booker Prize–nominated, winner of the BBC National Short...
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