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Avid reader. Festival lover. Coffee drinker. Wanderer. Passionate about storytelling, the arts, people and our planet. @Mcrlitfest.bsky.social Co-Director 📚
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Fellow readers, writers & book lovers on #BookSky 📚📚
saltpublishing.com Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · Feb 17
Dear #BookSky can you help us find our lost audience? We left 140,00 people behind on X and we want to reconnect!
February 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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New @mcrlitfest.bsky.social Spring25 event 🥁📚

🎤🎤 Writer & #EverydaySexism campaigner Laura Bates discusses how misogyny & inequality are being coded into our world via AI & tech with host @helenmort.bsky.social
🗓️ Tue 13 May, Central Library
🎟️ manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/laura...
Photo of writer and campaigner Laura Bates wearing a white top against a grey background. Next to her (against an orange background) is the cover of her new book The New Age of Sexism.
February 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Excited to reveal @mcrlitfest.bsky.social first Spring 2025 event 🥁

🎤🎤 Broadcaster Emma Barnett discusses motherhood, childcare and her funny, furious and relatable new book #MaternityService with @katefeld.bsky.social
📅 17 March, 7pm, Central Library, Mcr
🎟️ manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
Broadcaster Emma Barnett sat in a yellow and wooden chair against a blue backdrop. Next to her is the cover of her new book with the words Maternity Service in green on a pink cover. The graphic featured a turned page corner in yellow and white to indicate this is a Manchester Literature Festival event.
February 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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January 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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sarahjanemcr.bsky.social SJ @sarahjanemcr.bsky.social · Jan 17
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Fill your bookshelves with wonderful books, stories and poems…
January 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Fill your bookshelves with wonderful books, stories and poems…
January 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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TONIGHT! (17 Jan) See the wonderful Alan Hollinghurst discuss his moving and witty new novel Our Evenings, class, theatre, love and sexuality with poet & fellow novelist Andrew McMillan @mcrlitfest.bsky.social 🎟️ manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/an-ev...
January 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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I had the pleasure of meeting Edna O’Brien a few times - first at Brighton Festival then @budlitfest.bsky.social. I adored her wit, her charm, her resilience, her passion for literature and her refusal to suffer fools. What a joy to listen to this nourishing interview with @sineadgleeson.bsky.social
sineadgleeson.bsky.social Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · Dec 15
The great Edna O’Brien would’ve been 94 today. In 2015, I chaired an event with her, and hardly had to ask any questions. She spoke - as she wrote - in perfect paragraphs. Erudite, funny, and one of few writers I ever interviewed to get a standing ovation. Listen: m.soundcloud.com/dlr-soundclo...
Author Edna O’Brien, wearing a pale long-sleeved dress sits on a window sill with her left leg raised. Two seated women face the camera. Edna O’Brien is on the left, wearing a black dress. Sinéad Gleeson is on the right wearing a green dress.
January 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Lindsay Reade. Gillian Gilbert. Ang Matthews. Cath Carroll. DJ Paulette. Stella Hall. Linder Sterling. Kay Carroll. So many brilliant women played a pivotal role in Factory’s story. Thanks for acknowledging & amplifying some of their voices @ophiraophira.bsky.social @manchestermill.bsky.social
manchestermill.bsky.social The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · Jan 4
"The question is not one of whether women were involved in the label’s success, but rather why it’s taken just under half a century for their involvement to be recognised."

@ophiraophira.bsky.social on the forgotten women of Factory, for today's weekend read.

manchestermill.co.uk/p/she-helped...
She helped build Factory Records from the ground up. So how did Lindsay Reade get cut out of the story?
‘What is this with all these men? You know? What about me?’
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January 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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New Year, new skies. Looking forward to dipping my toe in the water here.
Sun shining over low clouds reflected in cool, silvery waters and a pebble shore.
January 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM