Manchester Literature Festival

The Giant has Awoken! Manchester Literature Festival, under the direction of former Cathy Bolton and Co-Directors Sarah-Jane Roberts & Jon Atkin put together a fine programme for 2014 which put Manchester up there amongst the best in the country. Back for a 3rd outing in 2016.

The Commissioning Programme is at the heart of what makes Manchester Literature Festival distinctive and sets it apart from many of the other book festivals around the country. It supports the City’s cultural profile at the heart of original modern thinking and feeds the considerable appetite amongst cultural consumers looking for new experiences. That's what we like here at Literary Festivals UK, literary festivals adopting a persona deeply imbued in their own local cultural and literary traditon whilst celebrating regional talent.

When? 7th- 23rd October, 2016

Who? 2016 TBA

How much? From £4 -

Festival Website: www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk

Tel: 0870 428 0785

Twitter? @McrLitFest

Facebook? Yes

You tube? https://www.youtube.com/user/McrLitFest

Programme? Established in 2014

In 2014 - Sebastian Barry, Com Tobin, Arne Dahl, Cory Doctrow, Simon Armitage, Naoimi Wood, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Peter Blake, Martin Amis, Nick Laird, Meg Rosoff, Michel Faber, Sarah Waters, Hong Ying, Suzzanah Dunne, A.L. Kennedy, Kamila Shamsie, Patience Agabi, Shiela Hancock, Howard Jacobsen, Jackie Kaye, David Mitchell, Evie Wyld, Margaret Drabble, Daljit Nagra +

Previous festivals: 2012 - You can delve between the covers of hot new books with the likes of Simon Armitage, Clare Balding, Michael Chabon, Richard Ford, Iain M Banks, AM Homes, James Kelman and Salley Vickers. Discuss Frontline Fiction with Pat Barker at IWM North or the not-so-beautiful game with David Conn and Rodge Glass at the new National Football Museum. Take afternoon tea at the Midland Hotel with Sue MacGregor or Jackie Kay. Walk in the footsteps of Charles Dickens and Anthony Burgess. Entertain the family with some storytelling fun and pen a postcard from history

2011 -Tahmima Anam, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Sarah Dunant, Jeffrey Eugenides, Antonia Fraser, Michael Frayn, Alan Hollinghurst, Anthony Horowitz, David Lodge, Jonathan Meades, Andrew Motion, Catherine O’Flynn, Francesca Simon, Colm Tóibín, Claire Tomalin and Zhu Wen.

In 2009 - Margaret Atwood, Joan Bakewell, Eoin Colfer, Jenny Uglow, Kate Atkinson, Martin Amis, Simon Armitage, Eoin Colfer, Marilyn Hacker, James Lasdun, Michelle Magorian, Val McDermid, Jimmy McGovern, Jeff Noon, Ruth Padel, Frederic Raphael, Fay Weldon, Guo Yue and many others. Before: Patience Agbabi, John McAuliffe, Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Imtiaz Dharker, Penny Jordan, Christina Jones, Mavis Cheek, Anne Perry, Andrew Martin, Lee Jackson, Livi Michael, Liz Kesslar, Philip Caveney, Russell T. Davies, Jorie Graham