New Literature Live season and Martin Amis public event.
18 Jan 2008
Save 25% with a Centre for New Writing season ticket.
Literature Live
11 February
Novelist Jonathan Trigell and fiction-writer Clare Wigfall
Wigfall's debut story collection, 'The Loudest Sound and Nothing', was published last summer. Trigell's novel 'Boy A' won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was recently made into a Channel 4 film.
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6 March *BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT*
Author and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi is the acclaimed author of screenplays including My Beautiful Laundrette and Venus, and novels including The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album.
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10 March *EARLY BOOKING ADVISED*
Novelist and poet Helen Dunmore and poet August Kleinzahler
Poet, novelist and children's writer Dunmore was the first winner of the Orange Prize. Kleinzahler's poetry was described by Allen Ginsberg as "...precise, concrete, intelligent and rare."
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7 April
Poets Matt Welton and (Centre co-director) John McAuliffe
Poet Welton won the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize in 2003, while McAuliffe's A Better Life was shortlisted for the Forward First Collection Award in 2002.
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14 April
Launch of the Poetry Review spring issue (free of charge)
An evening of poetry readings from some of the region's finest talents - guest poets to be announced.
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All Literature Live events are at 6.30pm at the University's Martin Harris Centre.
Martin Amis Public Events
Our next Martin Amis Public Event will be a debate on Literature and Religion, at the University's Whitworth Hall on 1 July. The writer and critic James Wood and leading theologian Professor Graham Ward have already been confirmed as panelists; for more details, please keep watching:
Professor Amis's events are always hugely popular, so PLEASE BOOK EARLY to secure your ticket.
Booking Information
The Centre's season ticket allows you to book all six events for £12.50 (£8.00 concessions, students and University staff), over 25% less than buying individual tickets.
Booking information is available at:
Alternatively, please contact the box office on:
- 0161 275 8951 or boxoffice@manchester.ac.uk
or visit:
- Quaytickets (for individual tickets only - season tickets must be purchased from the Martin Harris Centre)
For more information on the Centre for New Writing:
- Visit Centre for New Writing
or - Contact Jo Nightingale on 0161 306 1791 or at jo.nightingale@manchester.ac.uk
We look forward to seeing you at our forthcoming events!