Literature Events in the North
Sarah-Clare Conlon, Literature EditorSome of our favourite leftfield live literature regulars are back with their first events of the year – we’ve picked a weird and wonderful heap we think you’ll love.
As the days get longer, we welcome back Peter Barlow’s Cigarette and Poets & Players, plus Word Central and Crime Central. In the Yorkshire hills, we’re back at the Dusty Miller, while in Lancashire we’re heading to the 46th Litfest.
Head to Manchester Poetry Library for a multilingual slam as part of International Mother Language Day plus the inauguration of the Multilingual City Poets. Both are free. Meanwhile, Manchester Literature Festival has revealed the first of its Spring Programme, and we’ll have more on that soon, and the 10th birthday celebrations continue at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, with a host of online events looking at the Victorian writer’s controversial novel Ruth.
Finally, don’t forget to thumb through our Bookshops in Manchester Guide and pick up the new map from UNESCO Manchester City of Literature, and explore our literary places in Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Cumbria.
