MLF Chapter & Verse
The Manchester Literature Festival Blog
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Review: In The Dark Radio
October 14, 2014
Festival blogger Desmond Bullen was at the Burgess Centre for an unusual event in which the audience listens to short radio programmes in the dark… There is something uncanny about radio. For all its pervasive familiarity, the wireless is a medium of disembodied voices. Like that other nineteenth century invention, the séance, it best befits […]
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Review: Cory Doctorow
October 14, 2014
Festival Blogger David Hartley reviews our Cory Doctorow event at Waterstones, a talk titled ‘Information doesn’t want to be Free.’ It’s no secret that the creative world is on a knife-edge thanks to the digital age. On the one side of the drop lies the enticing promise of fame, fortune and wild recognition, and on […]
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Review: The Art of the Short Story
October 13, 2014
Young Digital Reporter Jack Clare went along to The Art of The Short Story with Sean O’Brien and Frank Cottrell Boyce and wrote a post about the event… This event was one of a serie, in promotion of a new book called Morphologies (a reference to Propp’s Morphology of the Folk Tale). It contains a […]
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Review: Face to Face With Kay Mellor
October 13, 2014
Young Digital Reporter Emilia Mincheva reviewed our industry event with television leading light Kay Mellor… The disheartening weather conditions could not stop me and many others from going to Media City to see one of the most iconic figures in the world of television drama in the UK – Kay Mellor. Hosted by The University […]
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Review: Blog North Awards 2014
October 13, 2014
Young Digital Reporter Olivia Swayne-Atherton reviewed the 2014 Blog North Awards evening on 8 October… On a cold wet, autumn’s night people entered‘The Deaf Institute with a mix of excitement and nerves as it was the venue for the ninth annual Blog North Awards. As a first timer at the awards I walked in and […]
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Review: Graphic Novelists Nick Hayes and Stephen Collins
October 13, 2014
Young Digital Reporter Amy Turner reviews our Graphic Novelists: Nick Hayes and Stephen Collins event… On the 7th October, the two cartoonists Nick Hayes and Stephen Collins brought their colourful personalities as well as their colourful work to the Anthony Burgess Foundation as part of the 2014 Manchester Literature Festival. The night saw the pair […]
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Review: Graphic Novelists Darryl Cunningham and Ian Williams
October 13, 2014
Young digital reporter Daniel Broadley reviews our event with graphic novelists Darryl Cunningham and Ian Williams on 7 October… With Darryl Cunningham’s latest graphic novel, Supercrash, and Ian Williams’ The Bad Doctor now on the shelves, the Manchester Literature Festival was proud to welcome the two renowned graphic novelists for an hour session at the […]
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Review: Afternoon Tea With Olivia Laing
October 10, 2014
Author Sarah Butler reviews Afternoon Tea with Olivia Laing, held at The Midland Hotel on 9 October… The best commissioning, in my opinion, is that which not only pairs a great writer with a great place (or community, or concept) but which in doing so also makes a space for that writer to push themselves […]
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Review: The 2014 Blog North Awards
October 10, 2014
Festival blogger L.J. Spillane reviews the 2014 Blog North Awards at The Deaf Institute on 8 October… I’m in the upstairs room at The Deaf Institute, under a huge mirror ball that is hanging from the ceiling. That’s when I meet Mollie [Simpson]. She’s here to read extracts from her popular blog ‘If destroyed still […]
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Five questions for Evie Wyld
October 4, 2014
The author of two powerful, beautifully-written novels – All The Birds, Singing and After the Fire, a Still Small Voice – Evie Wyld was named one of Granta’s Best British Novelists Under 40. We caught up with Evie to ask her about the books she loves and what she’s reading now before her event […]