Welcome

Manchester Literature Festival 2010 will take place 14 - 25 October. Full programme details will be announced on our new look website in early August.

If you missed the 09 festival or want to relive some of the highlights, please check out our first-ever MLF Movie featuring the likes of Joan Bakewell, Ruth Padel, Eoin Colfer, Michael Schmidt, Simon Armitage, Claire Harman, Frederic Raphael, Sinead Morrissey & Michelle Magorian, as well as our Rainy City Stories Walking in the Rain tour. 

You can also download podcast versions of Rainy City Stories and Suzanne Batty's newly commissioned poems written in response to the recent Angels of Anarchy exhibtion at Manchester Art Gallery; view Mike Garry's God is a Manc film produced for our Call Bukser virtual poetry installation; watch an interview with Atef Abu Saif,recorded for our Short Weekend event, and see two of his short stories, Exclusive Weekend and Portrait Years, read by translator Alice Guthrie; read a transcript of Jimmy McGovern in conversation with BBC Creative Director Kate Rowland at last year's BBC writersroom event; read poems written by Young Identity as part of the Evolving Words project; read reviews of last year's events on our Festival Blog and see photos on our Flickr site.

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