MLF Chapter & Verse
The Manchester Literature Festival Blog
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Review: Jeanette Winterson: Frankissstein
October 11, 2019
Centre for New Writing student Georgia Hase finds Jeanette Winterson electrifying. On the evening of Saturday the 5th of October Jeanette Winterson gave a reading unlike any other. Interactive, dramatic, futuristic, her performance was electrifying. Winterson animated the audience with her insightful and humorous observations which are given life in Frankissstein’s pages. Through sound effects […]
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Review: Common People
October 11, 2019
Centre for New Writing student Charlotte Wetton discovers new voices at Common People. I went to the ‘Common People’ event because I crave new stories and new voices. Working-class experience in literature is a rich seam not yet tapped. If I were a publisher, I would be signing up some of these debut writers pronto. […]
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Review: David Nicholls in Conversation
October 11, 2019
Centre for New Writing student Georgia Way finds a tenderness in David Nicholl’s approach to writing. The last time journalist Alex Clark interviewed writer David Nicholls in Manchester, it was, she says, a “mad experience” involving the police and broken microphones. David returned to Manchester on 4th October 2019 as part of his book tour […]