About MLF

Company Registration No. 4369668. Charity Registration No. 1121276.

Manchester Literature Festival, built on the legacy of its very successful predecessor, Manchester Poetry Festival, provides unique and imaginative opportunities for audiences to experience high quality live literature through an annual festival. The festival celebrates the power of writing across all creative and technological media. We produce a cutting-edge programme of activities that challenges the boundaries of what is traditionally understood to be a literature event and aim to promote internationalism, diversity and independence.

MLF is uniquely programmed under three strands of activity:

Read presents some of the most influential and inspirational authors writing in the world today in prestigious and unusual venues around Manchester, providing an opportunity for people to meet their literary heroes and discover new ones.

Independent is a programme of readings and events showcasing the best in regional and national independent publishing, writing and production.

Freeplay is a more experimental strand providing a series of events and happenings exploring the spaces where new writing meets new technology and media.

Manchester Literature Festival 2008 team:

Festival Director: Cathy Bolton

Festival Administrator/Events Manager: Jon Atkin

Blog Awards and Rainy City Stories Coordinator: Kate Feld

Board of Trustees: Katherine Beacon, Jan Bradley, Jerome de Groot, Matthew Frost, Jane Mathieson, Michael Moores, Alison Spenceley.

Press & PR: Lethal Communications, Catherine Braithwaite & Shelagh Bourke

Festival Volunteers: Simon Richardson, Almira Holmes, James Mcgrath, Emma Foster, Gordon Shand, Angela Summerill, Matt Dive, Kamila Rymajdo, Emily Stephenson, Paul Andrew and Sameena.