LITERATURE LIVE: AUTUMN 2016 Centre These unique literature events, organised by the University’s Centre for New Writing, bring the best known contemporary writers to Manchester to discuss and read from their work. Everyone is for New welcome, and tickets include discounts at the Blackwell bookstall and a complimentary drink at our Literature Live wine receptions. Writing © Sam Churchill © Hugh Chaloner 2014 © Hugh Chaloner © JMA Photography © Bobbie Hanvey LITERATURE LIVE: Venue John Thaw Beverley Bie Brahic, Jeffrey Wainwright and Studio Theatre Matthew Welton Time & Date Three gifted poets come together to read from eagerly- 7.30pm, Monday awaited new collections. 10 October 2016 Beverley Bie Brahic is a Canadian poet and translator who Price lives in Paris and San Francisco. Her book White Sheets was £7 / £5 a finalist for the 2012 Forward Prize for Best Collection and her new book, Hunting the Boar, is a Poetry Book Society Beverley Bie Brahic Recommendation. Jeffrey Wainwright grew up in Stoke-on-Trent and was Professor of English at MMU for many years. His new, seventh collection What Must Happen, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and includes ‘An Empty Street’, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2014. Matthew Welton lectures in writing at The University of Jeffrey Wainwright Nottingham. His debut, The Book of Matthew, won the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; The Number Poems is his third collection. The event will be hosted by John McAuliffe, Director of the Centre for New Writing and is presented in partnership with the Manchester Literature Festival. Book on 0843 208 0500 or manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk Matthew Welton GUARDIAN LIVE: Venue Jeanette Winterson “In Conversation” Central Library with Jonathan Safran Foer Time & Date © Sam Churchill 6.30pm, Tuesday What keeps a family together – and what can tear it apart? 11 October 2016 In literary wunderkind Jonathan Safran Foer’s long-awaited new novel, Here I Am, the Blochs face trying times. They’re Price supposed to be rejoicing on the eve of their eldest son’s Bar £10 / £8 Mitzvah – but he’s just done something so bad the whole thing might be cancelled, and meanwhile everyone else in the family Jeanette Winterson has troubles of their own. Jonathan is the author of three previous books: Everything is Illuminated (winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Eating Animals. He will read from his new novel and discuss his writing and life with Jeanette Winterson, Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing and author of award-winning books including Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Gap of Time and Why Be Happy When Jonathan Safran Foer You Could Be Normal?. Presented in partnership with the Manchester Literature Festival and Guardian Live. Book on 0843 208 0500 or manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk Castlefield Manchester Sermon: Venue Manchester Kamila Shamsie Cathedral We are delighted that Kamila Shamsie will be giving the 7th Time & Date Castlefield Manchester Sermon, reflecting on ethical issues 7pm, Friday of the day. One of our finest contemporary writers, Kamila 14 October 2016 grew up in Karachi and now lives in London. She has written six compelling and beautifully crafted novels including Burnt Price Shadows, Broken Verses, Salt and Saffron, and A God in Every £10 / £8 Stone, which was shortlisted for both the Walter Scott Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction. Kamila Shamsie Her work has been translated into over twenty languages and she is a Granta Best of Young British Novelist. Championed as ‘a writer of immense ambition and strength’ by Salman Rushdie, she frequently explores history, conflict, empire, freedom, love, friendship and the call of adventure in her work. In 2015 she delivered a National Conversation provocation that suggested publishers should make 2018 the Year of Publishing Women. Her Sermon will be followed by a conversation with Jeanette Winterson, author and Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing. The Manchester Sermon is one of Manchester Literature Festival’s annual commissions. Previous Sermons have been given by Ali Smith, Jeanette Winterson, Andrew Motion and Elif Shafak. The event is presented in partnership with Manchester Cathedral and is sponsored by Castlefield, ethical financial advisers based in Manchester. Book on 0843 208 0500 or manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk Anne Enright Venue Hallé St Peter’s Anne Enright is one of the leading novelists at work today. Born in Dublin, her novels include What are You Like?, The Time & Date Forgotten Waltz and The Gathering (winner of the Man Booker 7pm, Monday 17 October 2016 Prize for Fiction, the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year 2014 © Hugh Chaloner Award and the Irish Fiction Award). Price Her latest novel, The Green Road, was published in May 2015 £10 / £8 to a sea of praise. Her short fiction was collected in Yesterday’s Weather, and she was the editor of The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story. In 2015 she was appointed as the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction. The New York Times said, ‘Enright possesses an unusual combination of talents. She is a rich, lyrical prose writer, who cascades among novelties – again and again, she finds the unexpected adjective, the just noun.’ She will be reading from her work and discussing it with John Anne Enright McAuliffe, poet and Director of the Centre for New Writing. Presented in partnership with the Manchester Literature Festival. Book on 0843 208 0500 or manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk Eimear McBride Venue Cosmo Rodewald The Lesser Bohemians Concert Hall Join us for an evening with brilliant young Irish novelist Time & Date Eimear McBride. Described by The Times Literary Supplement © JMA Photography 7.30pm, Thursday as ‘a writer of remarkable power and originality,’ Eimear’s 20 October 2016 astonishing debut A Girl is a Half-formed Thing received the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Price Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. Her short £8 / £6 stories have appeared in Dubliners 100, The Long Gaze Back and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Eimear McBride Her new novel, The Lesser Bohemians, follows a young Irish woman who arrives in London to study drama and falls passionately, dangerously in love with an older actor. A bold and subversive story about sexual passion, The Lesser Bohemians is also a celebration of love, and how it can both destroy and create. Come and find out why Anne Enright said, ‘Eimear McBride is that old-fashioned thing, a genius.’ Eimear will be in conversation with John McAuliffe, poet and Director of the Centre for New Writing. Presented in partnership with the Manchester Literature Festival. Book on 0843 208 0500 or manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk LITERATURE LIVE: Venue John Thaw Michael Longley Studio Theatre Michael Longley (b. 1939, Belfast) is one of the greatest living Time & Date English-language poets. His work has received the Whitbread © Bobbie Hanvey 7.30pm, Monday Prize for Poetry, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Wilfred Owen 7 November 2016 Award amongst others. His Collected Poems appeared in 2006 and since then he has published A Hundred Doors (2011) and Price The Stairwell (2014), whose “ lyrical annotations of wild places £7 / £5 and quick articulate raids on the classics” (The Irish Times) won The Griffin International Prize for Best Collection in 2015. Michael Longley “A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders” – Seamus Heaney To Book: Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.quaytickets.com or by calling The Martin Harris Centre box office on0161 275 8951 or e-mailing [email protected] Join our mailing list by emailing [email protected] Centre for New Writing The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/cnw www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/cnw 14th Annual Rylands Poetry Reading: Venue The John Rylands Bill Manhire Library, Deansgate Join us for an evening of poetry at The John Rylands Time & Date Library. This year’s Rylands Poetry Reading will be given by 6pm, Thursday Bill Manhire. Bill Manhire (b. Invercargill, NZ, 1946) was his 24 November 2016 country’s inaugural Poet Laureate and has won the New Price Zealand Book Award for Poetry four times. His Collected © EdSwinden FREE Poems was published by Carcanet in 2001, and he has Bill Manhire subsequently published two acclaimed collections, (booking essential) Lifted (2005) and The Victims of Lightning (2010). A celebrated and influential teacher, he held a personal chair at the Victoria University of Wellington, where he directed the creative writing programme at the International Institute of Modern Letters. “A poet of considerable subtlety and strength, a ‘dangerous writer’...” – Charles Causley, Landfall This is a FREE event – but booking is essential as places are limited. To reserve your place please contact: The John Rylands Library on tel: 0161 306 0555 or email [email protected] The Caroline Chisholm Reading Venue International This event honours the memory of writer Caroline Anthony Burgess Chisholm (MA Creative Writing, 2013), who was a valued Foundation member of the Centre for New Writing community. Time & Date It will feature a reading from the best dissertation 6.30pm, Wednesday submitted by an MA student at the Centre in 2016, 14 December 2016 alongside a reading by a writer whose fiction is close in spirit to Caroline’s own novels in progress and her work at Price Caroline Chisholm (1972-2015) £6 / £4 Greenpeace. Hisham Matar is a Libyan writer whose debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Matar’s essays have appeared in the Asharq Alawsat, The Independent, The Guardian, The Times and The New York Times.