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Review: Daisy Johnson & Sophie Mackintosh in conversation with Jeanette Winterson
November 13, 2020
Young Digital Reporter Joe Hair discovers ideas about control and choice at Daisy Johnson & Sophie Mackintosh in conversation with Jeanette Winterson. Despite 2020 throwing about every hurdle it could, we arrived at our first #MLF20 book talk on 23 October. Daisy Johnson and Sophie Mackintosh were led by veteran author Jeannette Winterson for an […]
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MLF & Friends at Home: Jo on Poetry by LGBTQ+ Writers
June 29, 2020
Celebrating #PrideMonth, Jo Flynn – Poet, tutor for Write Like A Grrrl, Partnership and Communications Manager at For Books’ Sake and UNESCO Manchester City of Literature, has chosen some of her top poetry picks from LGBTQ+ writers for these trying times (she could never choose top-ever!). Rosie Garland – Things I Did While I Was […]
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Review: Jonathan Safran Foer
October 21, 2016
‘I have two identities, one as a writer who makes mistakes and one as an editor who goes in afterwards to tidy up and hunt out the typos.’: Our blogger Phil Olsen was illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer who read from his new novel Here I Am, and discussed his writing and life with Jeanette Winterson. Pausing […]
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Review: Helen Macdonald and Jeanette Winterson
March 29, 2016
“It’s always about quality of attention”: MLF’s Kate Feld reports on our recent in-conversation event with Jeanette Winterson and Helen Macdonald, which featured compelling insights into Macdonald’s hit memoir as well as inspiring talk on the writer’s craft. A meeting of two such multi-faceted and curious minds as Jeanette Winterson and Helen Macdonald is a rare treat, and our event with the Centre […]