Manchester Literature Festival at Various Venues
Manchester Literature Festival
Various Venues
6th October 2023 – 22nd October 2023
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Manchester Literature Festival returns this October with another incredible line-up of inspirational guest writers and artists. Acclaimed novelists Zadie Smith, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Deborah Levy, Max Porter and Kate Mosse share their amazing new novels with audiences. Sandra Newman offers a bold feminist retelling of 1984. Naomi Alderman presents her fast-paced, cataclysmic vision of The Future. Jeanette Winterson reads us new ghost stories, and you’ll hear from some of 2023’s most exciting emerging novelists, including Richard Armitage, Monica Heisey, Sheena Patel, and Annie Macmanus.
Leading thinkers Yanis Varoufakis, Michael Lewis, Lisa Nandy, Natalie Haynes and Afua Hirsch discuss capitalism, inequality, tech, history, decolonisation and beauty. Thurston Moore and Jeremy Deller reflect on art, music, creativity and collaborations. George Monbiot and Gaia Vince offer radical proposals for combatting the climate emergency. The festival also welcomes many talented poets to share their sublime poetry.
Here are some of the best events you can find at this year’s Manchester Literature Festival.
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At MLF23, Simon Armitage discusses his love of language, compositions and his collaborations with musicians.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
One of our most fearless voices on nature, climate change and the environment, George Monbiot visits Manchester Literature Festival.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
Karl Ove Knausgaard makes his Manchester Literature Festival debut to discuss his dazzling new novel The Wolves of Eternity.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
Cities Untold provides lyrical, surprising, sensual, and sometimes surreal impressions of the three cities through fresh lenses.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
Decolonising My Body with Afua Hirsch looks at ideas of how notions of beauty are constructed and stripped away.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
Lisa Nandy sets out a way in which we can turn around the global changes, political divisions and economic crises that have rocked the UK.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
British actor, comedian and writer Doon Mackichan joins MLF to launch her memoir, My Lady Parts: A Life Fighting Stereotypes.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
Monica Heisey & Sheena Patel discuss their debut novels, strong women characters and the perils of modern love and relationships.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
One of our most prolific and inspiring storytellers, Jeanette Winterson returns to MLF to launch her new book, Night Side of the River: Ghost Stories.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
Jeremy Deller talks about the power of imagination, creativity, collaboration, Manchester and his joyful book Art is Magic.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
A founding member of Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore discusses his journey to becoming one of the most influential musicians of his generation.
Part of Manchester Literature Festival
