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Manchester Literature Festival Blog: May 2012
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Manchester Literature Festival Blog. Tuesday, May 15, 2012. Tomorrow sees the UK's first-ever official celebration of short-short stories, micro fiction, nano fiction or flash fiction, whichever term you prefer. There will be events up and down the country, from writing workshops to flash slams, and here in Manchester two writing collectives are taking the lead to serve up fresh flash fiction throughout the day and evening. See the National Flash-Fiction Day website. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Things To...
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Words & Fixtures: March 2015
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Because we all need to mind our language. OMFG, a swan song for my favourite place. I know I’m not alone, and that is heartening, but not heartening enough to know that she will soon be gone out of our lives. There’s a handy bin just outside the door. This isn’t the chuffin AMC, and let’s not make HOME like that). HOME, we’re told, is going to be better. I don’t disbelieve this, but nothing says arthouse and behaveyourfuckingselves as a lovely wee cinema with three screens; one in an Art ...Now I'm worki...
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Manchester Literature Festival Blog: November 2011
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Manchester Literature Festival Blog. Tuesday, November 15, 2011. Close Up With Jeffrey Eugenides: The Marriage Plot, Sunday 6th November, 7.30pm, Whitworth Art Gallery. Words by Zoe Lambert. Photograph by Jon Atkin. About 150 of us are sitting in rows in the South Gallery, and with Jeffrey Eugenides standing at a lectern, we could be in a lecture in The Marriage Plot. But we aren’t. We are at the final MLF event, which is also one of Dave Haslam’s Close Up interviews. Once the first avowel has been made,...
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Manchester Literature Festival Blog: April 2012
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Manchester Literature Festival Blog. Thursday, April 5, 2012. Cultureword National Black Writers Conference Saturday 24 March 2012, 11am, Zion Arts Centre. Words by Kevin Danson. Cultureword National Black Writers Conference ( Facebook. Takes place in Hulme’s Zion Arts Centre with a lot of support, including Arts Council England and Big Lottery Fund. Despite the gorgeous day outside, the theatres of the Zion Arts Centre show their own version of a lovely Saturday afternoon. 11am–12pm: Poetry Futures.
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Manchester Literature Festival Blog: Postcards from the Past - Anne Frank
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Manchester Literature Festival Blog. Tuesday, March 26, 2013. Postcards from the Past - Anne Frank. Dear Mum and Dad,. I hope you are well. Amsterdam is not how it used to be. Things are changing constantly and there are now a family of Jews living with us. It is scary thinking that we could be caught for helping them but I refuse to let these people suffer because of the Nazis. Love from your daughter,. Written by Zahraa Ghafoor and Fahimah Dudha from Pulling Together. Who helped hide the Frank family.
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Manchester Literature Festival Blog: November 2012
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Manchester Literature Festival Blog. Wednesday, November 14, 2012. Children's Bookshow Follow-up, Tuesday 23rd October, Webster Primary School. Words by Fiona MacLeod. Darkness. A spotlight. Rows of chairs. The edge of a stage. Tickets. A flash of bright yellow as a volunteer goes by the door. A rustle of excitement. Manchester Literature Festival. Over 70 astonishing performances in two weeks but the best one, for me, happened on the very last day of the festiva. Fiona MacLeod is a freelance writer and ...
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The Manchizzle: January 2014
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Friday, January 31, 2014. News flash: I am not cool. I am a fraud. I am misrepresenting myself, living a double life, guilty of perpetrating an online persona that is more than a little out of whack with reality. Actually, there is a gulf so big between the two things that you could drive a fleet of Mack trucks through it. But it’s so easy now, isn’t it? We all have these virtual aliases, a pocket full of glossy digital incarnations which only resemble our real selves if you squint really hard. Is also w...
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That was July – QuietManDave
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That was July QuietManDave. July 31, 2015. By QuietManDave Filed in General. When I previewed July’s theatre. In Manchester, I was looking forward to a busy month. How did it turn out in practice? The Manchester International Festival was, I think, a huge success. Festival Square was a wonderful place with DJ sets, acoustic music and great food, although I wonder how far into Manchester’s population the Festival really reached. Tree of Codes. Despite noting that I was excited by Flare, I could never have...
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The Manchizzle: Manchester live music preview: Spring 2015
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Monday, February 02, 2015. Manchester live music preview: Spring 2015. I like gigs. More accurately, I like making plans to go to gigs. I get to roughly 25 percent of the gigs I fully intend to go to. Because, you know, my life is complicated. Also, sometimes I find out that my new favourite band was in Manchester last week, oh no, you weren't there? Ah, too bad they're not coming back for another year. or four. Ex Hex at Soup Kitchen, 12 February. D'Angelo at The O2 Apollo, 18 February. Sneakily dropped...
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The Manchizzle: April 2014
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014. The Short Short Story Slam (and why you should go see live literature in Manchester). So Manchester’s live literature scene, something happened to it while I was hibernating. It got awesome. Last night was Flashtag Collective’s. Short Short Story Slam. But there's more. Next week, the ever-brilliant Bad Language. Is at The Castle next Wednesday, April 30 with Luke Brown headlining. Effed Up. Image courtesy of Flashtag. Links to this post. Having to leave the house. New: Hope li...
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