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Manchester City of Literature is heading leads a creative lockdown festival of 18 virtual events from partners across the city The two week long celebration is centred around UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day (IMLD), which is takes place globally on 21 February. Manchester’s fourth annual IMLD event (16-28th February, 2021) is a collaborative celebration of the city’s impressive cultural diversity which sees almost 200 languages spoken, making it the ‘UK’s language ca...

A SHORT story written by a senior lecturer in creative writing at Leeds Trinity University will be read by British actor Christopher Eccleston at an online literary event. Withen, a story by senior lecturer and internationally renowned novelist Martyn Bedford, who lives in Ilkley, has been selected by Emmy award-winning actor and ninth Doctor Christopher Eccleston to be read at a live event promoting Protest: Stories of Resistance, an anthology of protest fiction and essays. Protest: Stor...

What is the equivalent of public poetry — verse written at white heat after a momentous event — in literary fiction? In a blog post about the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack, Egyptian critic and novelist Sayed Tonsy Mahmoud turned to literary discussions in France. He proposed the useful term romans d’urgences. These are novels of urgency, emergency and immediacy. Yet, as he suggests, a potential problem with such responsive fiction (which I extend to include the conte, or short story, as well ...