Events
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Manchester Literature Festival presents Tayari Jones
19:00 - 2 June 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 America in the 1950s and 60s, their lives...
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Writing for Wellbeing
14:00 - 15:00 9 June 2026
Creative writing workshop for the Festival of Libraries 2026 Expressing yourself and crafting an object have long been studied and considered a way to relieve stress and emotional turbulence. We are told that “talking helps” and that making “something out of nothing” can make us feel better. Writing is a form of speech. And so, as part...
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Roots, Resistance, Reinvention: Exploring Jamaican Patois/Patwah (Creole)
18:00 - 19:30 10 June 2026
A workshop celebrating Jamaican Patwa / Patwah / Patois, sometimes also called ‘Creole’. As part of our Festival of Libraries Programme. A workshop celebrating Jamaican Patwa / Patwah / Patois, sometimes also called ‘Creole’. What is Jamaican Patois/Patwah? How much variation is there between different regions of Jamaica and /or across...
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Tasting Children's Literature - An Edible Readathon
10:00 - 11:00 11 June 2026
Join us for a family-friendly, immersive session exploring foods in children's literature. From the apple that Snow White should not have bitten and the drink that makes Alice’s trip to Wonderland possible to the feast gobbled by the very hungry little caterpillar in Eric Carle’s now classic 1969 story and the nut that the mouse finally gets...
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Writing for Wellbeing
15:00 - 16:00 11 June 2026
Creative writing workshop for the Festival of Libraries 2026 Expressing yourself and crafting an object have long been studied and considered a way to relieve stress and emotional turbulence. We are told that “talking helps” and that making “something out of nothing” can make us feel better. Writing is a form of speech. And so, as part...
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