📢 Pulp Idol 2025 Submissions are OPEN! 🖊️Liverpool’s longest-running novel competition is back. 🏆Submit your first chapter for a shot at being read by top UK literary agents, publishers, & writers. ⏰ Deadline: 18 Oct 2024. Apply👉 tinyurl.com/3nyrn9be

Get ready for Welcome Week, with an exciting line up of activities including live music, free food and crafts. 🙌 Find out what's on and get involved 🔗 bit.ly/3MqMOlv.

As researchers in #HE grapple with the impact and opportunities of #AI, @timehighered have published this interesting article exploring what the new head of @UKRI_news #EngineeringAndPhysicalSciencesResearchCouncil has to say on the subject: buff.ly/4cHN0aG

After Adele: is the diva leaving the building once and for all? Professor Kirsty Fairclough (Professor Kirsty Fairclough) discusses the phenomenon of the diva with The Guardian 👇 theguardian.com/music/article/…

This beautiful poetry broadside was one of many created by Manchester School of Art student Ysabel Hinrichs 😍 The design combines Ysabel's love for nature with the themes of Helen Mort's poem 'In The Field' which features as part of our Landscapes of Change exhibition 🌿 #poetrycommunity

ah, a really insightful reading of Food for the Dead has been published by WorldLiteratureToday — thank you to Nikola Yurtsaba #standwithukraine 🇺🇦 for the time and care you’ve spent with my collection worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/september…

Did you know that the SYP runs the Spare Zoom Project? The SZP connects aspiring publishers with industry professionals for a one-off 30-minute Zoom chat. Apply now to gain insight from experienced professionals: thesyp.org.uk/the-spare-room… #SYPInto #SpareZoomProject

TOMORROW NIGHT! We're delighted to be welcoming Heather McCalden to the shop to discuss THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE - her incedible genre-defying memoir which explores grief, loss and the entwined histories of AIDS and the Internet. Heather will be chatting with Valerie O’Riordan 🎫👇🏻

briefly stepping out into the autumnal winds for some Pity events: I’ll be in Ilkley, Cheltenham, Durham, Sheffield, Todmorden and Newcastle, hope to see you there. Info on each event below 👇🏻

TONIGHT! Heather McCalden will be here talking to Valerie O’Riordan about THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE - her incredible genre-defying memoir which explores grief, loss and the entwined histories of AIDS and the Internet. Doors: 6.30, starts: 6.45 Tickets online below and on the door.

THE BOOK OF MANCHESTER PLAYLIST🎵🎚️ To celebrate The Book of Manchester, we're collecting Manchester tunes past, present and future, from the old-guard classics to the new acts redefining the Manc sound! Comment your recs or add via the link below👇 open.spotify.com/playlist/052zc…

‘Trespass’: call for submissions from the brilliant Elsewhere Journal will be of interest to place writers Centre for Place Writing English at Manchester Met Manchester Writing School

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Helen Mort whose brilliant #DadVsDad is published today. 'Precious, pressured, poised poems; another marvel from a marvellous writer' The Typo King FRSL / FRSA vervepoetrypress.com/product/helen-…

Calling all writers! Enter the £1,000 Manchester Writing School 2024 Flash Fiction and Non-Fiction QuietManDave Prize for new and unpublished work. Open internationally. 500 word limit. Deadline 25 October. Reduced price entry available. mmu.ac.uk/qmdprize

Fantastic relaunch of Identity Writers group last night at Manchester Poetry Library ! Lots of cake & cracking poetry 🎂 Workshops will now be at the Poetry Library every Wednesday, 6.30pm 😊 If you’re an Asian, Black or Middle-Eastern writer looking for a supportive community come along!

Not being dramatic but I submitted my MA dissertation today and I would like to have a lie down on a chaise longue and listen to harp music. Loved every minute but my faffing and dithering were next level 💖😆Manchester Writing School Helen Mort Dr Kim Moore Andrew McMillan

Hive Young Writers Competition 24/25 for young writers 14-30 in the north/midlands!! Ages:14-16 | 17-19 | 20-30 Poetry | Fiction | Flash. FREE entry. Open theme & resources to get you started 🙏📚🤗 Judges Suzannah Evans & Dave Swann Deadline: Feb 25 hivesouthyorkshire.com/competition

As we start a new academic year read what current students get up to on our MA/MFA Performance programme @mcrschart @manmetuni & hear what they have to say about us. 'If you want to fulfil your potential as an artist and unlock parts of your practice, this is the course for you'.

Looking forward to reading at this on September 15th. Come along! It's free. It's at lovely Heaton Park. Plus Lou Mach is headlining.

The adaptation of a folk horror novel penned by creative writing lecturer Andrew Hurley hits cinemas today! 🍿 Starring Matt Smith, Starve Acre, sees a family’s idyllic rural life thrown into turmoil when their son starts acting out of character. 🔗 bit.ly/4gaeZTi.