Avid reader. Festival lover. Coffee drinker. Wanderer. Passionate about storytelling, the arts, people and our planet. @Mcrlitfest.bsky.social Co-Director 📚
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Fellow readers, writers & book lovers on #BookSky 📚📚
Excited to reveal @mcrlitfest.bsky.social first Spring 2025 event 🥁
🎤🎤 Broadcaster Emma Barnett discusses motherhood, childcare and her funny, furious and relatable new book #MaternityService with @katefeld.bsky.social
📅 17 March, 7pm, Central Library, Mcr
🎟️ manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
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Fill your bookshelves with wonderful books, stories and poems…
TONIGHT! (17 Jan) See the wonderful Alan Hollinghurst discuss his moving and witty new novel Our Evenings, class, theatre, love and sexuality with poet & fellow novelist Andrew McMillan @mcrlitfest.bsky.social 🎟️ manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/an-ev...
I had the pleasure of meeting Edna O’Brien a few times - first at Brighton Festival then @budlitfest.bsky.social. I adored her wit, her charm, her resilience, her passion for literature and her refusal to suffer fools. What a joy to listen to this nourishing interview with @sineadgleeson.bsky.social
Lindsay Reade. Gillian Gilbert. Ang Matthews. Cath Carroll. DJ Paulette. Stella Hall. Linder Sterling. Kay Carroll. So many brilliant women played a pivotal role in Factory’s story. Thanks for acknowledging & amplifying some of their voices @ophiraophira.bsky.social @manchestermill.bsky.social
New Year, new skies. Looking forward to dipping my toe in the water here.
Dear #BookSky can you help us find our lost audience? We left 140,00 people behind on X and we want to reconnect!
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Fill your bookshelves with wonderful books, stories and poems…
New @mcrlitfest.bsky.social Spring25 event 🥁📚
🎤🎤 Writer & #EverydaySexism campaigner Laura Bates discusses how misogyny & inequality are being coded into our world via AI & tech with host @helenmort.bsky.social
🗓️ Tue 13 May, Central Library
🎟️ manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/laura...
The great Edna O’Brien would’ve been 94 today. In 2015, I chaired an event with her, and hardly had to ask any questions. She spoke - as she wrote - in perfect paragraphs. Erudite, funny, and one of few writers I ever interviewed to get a standing ovation. Listen: m.soundcloud.com/dlr-soundclo...
"The question is not one of whether women were involved in the label’s success, but rather why it’s taken just under half a century for their involvement to be recognised."
@ophiraophira.bsky.social on the forgotten women of Factory, for today's weekend read.
manchestermill.co.uk/p/she-helped...
