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  1. The National Creative Writing Industry Day 2024

    Manchester Writing School
    Manchester Metropolitan University
    Grosvenor East Building
    Cavendish Street
    Manchester
    M15 6BG

    09 November 2024
    9:30am
    Details
  2. National Creative Writing Industry Day 2023

    Grosvenor East Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Cavendish Street, Manchester, M15 6BG

    04 November 2023
    9:30am
    Details
  3. NFA Christmas Showcase

    Blackwell's, University Green, 146 Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9GP

    12 December 2024
    6:00pm
    Details
  4. Fire Ready: Local Launch

    Old Hall Books, 32 Market Place, Brackley, NN13 7DP

    10 December 2024
    7:30pm
    Details
  5. Short Films for Palestine

    The Carlton Club
    Rowan Lodge 
    113 Carlton Road
    Whalley Range
    Manchester M16 8BE

    05 December 2024
    7:00pm
    Details
  6. The Northern Fiction Alliance at Books on Tyne 2024

    City Library

    33 New Bridge St W,

    Newcastle upon Tyne

    NE1 8AX

    30 November 2024
    2:00pm
    Details
  7. Knowledge Sharing Workshop: GMPLISP

    Manchester Central Library – Performance Space

    26 November 2024
    2:05pm
    Details
  8. Manchester Winter Book Fair

    House of Books and Friends
    81 King Street 
    Ground Floor 
    Manchester 
    M2 4AH

    23 November 2024
    11:00am
    Details
  9. Writing the Gothic: Free Writers’ Day with Bronte Schiltz

    Geoffrey Manton Building

    Rosamond St West

    Manchester

    M15 6EB

    22 November 2024
    10:00am
    Details
  10. To Tell Our Stories: The Journeys of Palestinian Narrative

    Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU. This event will also be streamed online. 

    21 November 2024
    7:30pm
    Details
  11. Writing the City: Bradford Place Writing Course

    City Library Bradford

    Centenary Square

    9 Aldermanbury

    Bradford BD1 1SD

    22 October 2024
    6:00pm
    Details
  12. Adam Marek at Cork International Short Story Festival

    Friday 18 October 2024

    Cork Arts Theatre

    Carroll's Quay

    Cork

    18 October 2024
    7:30pm
    Details
  13. The Book of Manchester Launch

    Contact Theatre
    Oxford Rd
    Manchester
    M15 6JA

    12 October 2024
    7:00pm
    Details
  14. Folklore Short Story Course

    Online Via Zoom

    07 October 2024
    6:30pm
    Details
  15. The Book of Coventry

    Commonground

    FarGo Village #Unit 5

    Far Gosford Street 

    Coventry

    CV1 5ED

    26 September 2024
    6:30pm
    Details
  16. Horror Short Fiction Online Course

    Online via Zoom 

    19 September 2024
    6:30pm
    Details
  17. Voices of Resilience at the Barbican Centre

    Barbican Centre
    Silk Street, London
    EC2Y 8DS

    14 September 2024
    7:00pm
    Details
  18. Voices of Resilience at Edinburgh International Book Festival

    Edinburgh Futures Institute

    1 Lauriston Place

    Edinburgh, EH3 9EF

    18 August 2024
    9:00pm
    Details
  19. Short Fiction Course: Writing the Urban Weird with SJ Bradley

    Online

    30 July 2024
    6:00pm
    Details
  20. Dark Fiction Short Story Writing Course with Matt Wesolowski

    Online

    25 June 2024
    6:00pm
    Details
  21. Refugee Tales: Migration Matters Festival

    Migration Matters Festival

    Adelphi Room
    Crucible Theatre
    Sheffield S1 1DA
    United Kingdom

    19 June 2024
    6:00pm
    Details
  22. Kurdistan +100: Q&A Hosted By Luciana De Mello

    Crescent Arts Centre, 2-4 University Road
    Belfast
    Co. Antrim
    Northern Ireland BT7 1NH

    12 June 2024
    6:30pm
    Details
  23. Publishing Insights Day 2024

    Manchester Writing School
    Manchester Metropolitan University
    Grosvenor East Building
    Cavendish Street
    Manchester
    M15 6BG

    06 June 2024
    9:00am
    Details
  24. COURSE: Writing Short Crime Fiction

    Online

    23 May 2024
    6:00pm
    Details
  25. COURSE: Writing Magical Realism and Fantasy Short Story Writing

    Online

    13 May 2024
    6:00pm
    Details
  26. COURSE: Writing Fiction from Fact: Turning Life into Short Stories

    Online, Zoom

    08 May 2024
    6:30pm
    Details
  27. Dinesh Allirajah Prize Awards Evening 2024

    Online (via Zoom)

    08 May 2024
    6:00pm
    Details
  28. Gaia Holmes at Huddersfield Literature Festival

    Attic, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Queen Street, Huddersfield HD1 2SP 

    26 April 2024
    5:30pm
    Details
  29. Voices of Resilience: Writing from Gaza

    Home, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester M15 4FN

    22 April 2024
    7:00pm
    Details
  30. Arab Futurism

    Arab British Centre, 1 Gough Square, London EC4A 3DE

    18 April 2024
    6:30pm
    Details
  31. Writers Day: An evening of Poetic Prose.
    15 April 2024
    7:00pm
    Details
  32. Online edition! Crafting a short story collection with Gaynor Jones

    Online

    09 April 2024
    6:30pm
    Details
  33. Online edition: Book Influencer and Publisher social

    Online, Zoom

    28 March 2024
    6:00pm
    Details
  34. Reading Gaza - AWAN Festival 2024

    Rich Mix  35-47  Bethnal Green Road  London E1 6LA

    09 March 2024
    11:00am
    Details
  35. Sheffield Radical Bookfair

    Sheffield Trades & Labour Club (200 Duke St.)

    09 March 2024
    11:00am
    Details
  36. Dark Matters: A night of short fiction inspired by John Stewart Bell and CERN

    The Great Hall, John  Bell House, College Square E, Belfast BT1 6DJ
     

    19 February 2024
    7:00pm
    Details
  37. Manchester in Translation 2024: Online Translation Conference

    Online, Zoom

    19 February 2024
    11:00am
    Details
  38. The Cuckoo Cage at International Black Speculative Writing Festival

    Goldsmiths, London

    02 February 2024
    3:15pm
    Details
  39. Book Influencer and Publisher Party!

    Bab NQ

    14 Little Lever St, Manchester M1 1HR

    01 February 2024
    6:30pm
    Details
  40. Crafting a short story collection with Gaynor Jones

    THE BRITONS PROTECTION

    50 Great Bridgewater Street Manchester M1 5LE

    10 January 2024
    6:30pm
    Details
  41. Northern Fiction Alliance Christmas Showcase

    Blackwell's Bookshop

    146 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9GP

    07 December 2023
    6:30pm
    Details
  42. Collision at the Royal Institution, with Steven Moffat, Margaret Drabble and Spencer Kelly.

    21 Albemarle St, London W1S 4BS

    01 December 2023
    7:00pm
    Details
  43. The Markaz Review discusses ‘Palestine + 100’
    26 November 2023
    3:00pm
    Details
  44. Manchester Winter Book Fair

    House of Books and Friends

     53 King Street, Manchester, M2 4LQ.

    25 November 2023
    11:00am
    Details
  45. The Book of Prague - Manchester Launch

    International Anthony Burgess Foundation, 3 Cambridge St, Manchester M1 5BY

    17 November 2023
    7:00pm
    Details
  46. The Book of Prague - London Launch

    Czech Centre at the Czech Embassy Cinema, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London W8 4QY

    16 November 2023
    7:00pm
    Details
  47. Future-Proof Your Publishing: Expansion, Innovation, and Industry Outlook

    Online

    16 November 2023
    10:00am
    Details
  48. The Book of Beijing at Leeds with Wen Zhen and Gu Shi

    Parkinson Building - Room B.08, University of Leeds, CategoryClothworkers' Building South, Woodhouse, Leeds LS2 9JT

    16 October 2023
    4:30pm
    Details
  49. The Book of Beijing at MLF with Wen Zhen and Gu Shi

    The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
    Manchester Literature Festival

    15 October 2023
    4:00pm
    Details
  50. Proof Party with Mustafa Gündoğdu, editor of Kurdistan + 100

    Regency Suite, Queens Hotel, Cheltenham

    07 October 2023
    5:30pm
    Details
  51. Collision at New Scientist Live, with Courttia Newland, Rob Appleby & Jon Spooner

    Engage Stage, ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL

    07 October 2023
    1:30pm
    Details
  52. National Poetry Day Writers’ Day

    Oldham Library Greaves Street Oldham OL1 1AL

    05 October 2023
    6:00pm
    Details
  53. The Green Book Fair

    Online.

    27 September 2023
    9:00am
    Details
  54. Writing Horror: Online short story course with Andy Murray

    Online, Zoom

    26 September 2023
    6:30pm
    Details
  55. Writers Day: Writing about Nature

    Bolton Central Library and Museum, Le Mans Crescent, Bolton BL1 1SE

    16 September 2023
    11:00am
    Details
  56. Northern Fiction Alliance Seminar partnered with the Publishers Association

    International Anthony Burgess Foundation, 3 Cambridge Street Manchester M1 5BY
     

    14 September 2023
    11:00am
    Details
  57. Comma Press and Tilted Axis Press: Dual Book Launch

    Comma Press YouTube Channel 

    12 September 2023
    5:00pm
    Details
  58. Dinesh Allirajah Prize Giving 2023

    Online

    25 July 2023
    6:30pm
    Details
  59. Collision at Bluedot

    Strar Pavillion

    Bluedot Festival

    22 July 2023
    12:00pm
    Details
  60. Short Story Writing with Mahsuda Snaith

    Online on Zoom

    12 July 2023
    7:00pm
    Details
  61. Writing the Uncanny short story course with Dr David Hartley

    On Zoom

    10 July 2023
    6:00pm
    Details
  62. Writers Day: The Business of Writing

    Wythenshawe Forum Library Forum Grove Wythenshawe M22 5RX

    24 June 2023
    11:30am
    Details
  63. Collision at Hay Festival with Lucy Caldwell, Steven Moffat and Prof Robert Appleby

    Tent: Wye Stage, 7pm,

    Hay Festival Site

    Hay on Wye, Wales

    27 May 2023
    7:00pm
    Details
  64. Collision at Science Museum ‘Late’ - with Steven Moffat, Bidisha, Luan Goldie and Adam Marek

    Science Museum, Exhibition Rd, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD

    04 May 2023
    6:30pm
    Details
  65. Short story writing with Tania Hershman

    Hope Mill Theatre

    113 Pollard Street Manchester M4 7JA

    02 May 2023
    6:00pm
    Details
  66. Refugee Tales at Manchester University

    Samuel Alexander Building (lecture theatre SG.16) Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL

    25 April 2023
    4:00pm
    Details
  67. David Constantine and Ra Page at Oxford Literary Festival

    Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room, 34 Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BD

    27 March 2023
    6:00pm
    Details
  68. The Book of Bristol Launch

    Bristol Central Library  

    Deanery Road   

    City Centre   

    Bristol BS1 5TL

    14 March 2023
    7:30pm
    Details
  69. Short Story Writing Course with SJ Bradley

    Online - Zoom

    02 March 2023
    6:00pm
    Details
  70. Manchester in Translation - Workshop 3

    These workshops will take place over Zoom with joining instructions provided after sign-up. 

    Please note that all workshops translate into English, therefore all participants must have proficiency in the source language (reading proficiency not just spoken) and have a high proficiency in English. 

    22 February 2023
    2:00pm
    Details
  71. Manchester in Translation - Panel 2

    This panel will be streamed live to the Comma Press YouTube channel. You can follow a link to the YouTube event from this Eventbrite page, or from the Comma Press website, social media pages (@commapress) and YouTube channel.

    22 February 2023
    11:00am
    Details
  72. Manchester in Translation - Workshop 2

    These workshops will take place over Zoom with joining instructions provided after sign-up. 

    Please note that all workshops translate into English, therefore all participants must have proficiency in the source language (reading proficiency not just spoken) and have a high proficiency in English.

    21 February 2023
    2:00pm
    Details
  73. Manchester in Translation - Panel 1

    This panel will be streamed live to the Comma Press YouTube channel. You can follow a link to the YouTube event from this Eventbrite page, or from the Comma Press website, social media pages (@commapress) and YouTube channel.

    21 February 2023
    11:00am
    Details
  74. Manchester in Translation - Workshop 1

    These workshops will take place over Zoom with joining instructions provided after sign-up. 

    Please note that all workshops translate into English, therefore all participants must have proficiency in the source language (reading proficiency not just spoken) and have a high proficiency in English. 

    20 February 2023
    2:00pm
    Details
  75. Manchester in Translation - Keynote

    This keynote will be streamed live to the Comma Press YouTube channel. You can follow a link to the YouTube event from this Eventbrite page, or from the Comma Press website, social media pages (@commapress) and YouTube channel.

    20 February 2023
    11:00am
    Details
  76. Radical Book Fair

    Dina Venue, Fitzalan Square, S1 2AZ

    04 February 2023
    10:00am
    Details
  77. The Cuckoo Cage at Chester Literature Festival

    Storyhouse Theatre, Chester

    11 December 2022
    2:00pm
    Details
  78. A Star Studded Release of Tomato Cain And Other Stories

    Pendulum Hall, Sackville St

    30 October 2022
    12:00pm
    Details
  79. Resist(ance): a Collective Read

    Online

    29 October 2022
    12:00am
    Details
  80. All Walls Collapse at Manchester Literature Festival

    International Anthony Burgess Centre, Manchester 

    16 October 2022
    2:00pm
    Details
  81. Nottingham Short Story Course with Bekki Burns

    Nottingham Writers Studio 

    22 September 2022
    6:30pm
    Details
  82. Tomato Cain And Other Stories - Virtual Launch

    Online 

    15 September 2022
    7:00pm
    Details
  83. The Cuckoo Cage at Edinburgh Book Festival

    Northside Theatre

    14 August 2022
    4:15pm
    Details
  84. Science Fiction Writing with Justina Robson

    Online 

    10 August 2022
    6:00pm
    Details
  85. The Cuckoo Cage at WOMAD

    World of Words Pavilion 

    31 July 2022
    4:00pm
    Details
  86. Collision: Stories from the Science of CERN at WOMAD
    29 July 2022
    2:00pm
    Details
  87. All Walls Collapse at WOMAD
    29 July 2022
    2:00pm
    Details
  88. Egypt +100 at Liverpool Arab Arts Festival

    Chapters Of Us, 44 Simpson Street, Liverpool, L1 0AX

    09 July 2022
    1:00pm
    Details
  89. Bradford Literature Festival
    26 June 2022
    1:45pm
    Details
  90. The Cuckoo Cage at Bradford Literature Festival
    25 June 2022
    2:00pm
    Details
  91. Comma Press at Bradford Literature Festival
    25 June 2022
    1:00pm
    Details
  92. Pathways into Publishing

    The Portico Library, Manchester 

    25 June 2022
    11:00am
    Details
  93. Comma Press x Word Theatre UK
    24 June 2022
    7:00pm
    Details
  94. Era of Reclamation: Refugee Tales at The British Museum

    The British Museum

    23 June 2022
    6:30pm
    Details
  95. All Walls Collapse at Hay Festival

    Hay Festival

    27 May 2022
    1:11pm
    Details
  96. Short Story Course with Karline Smith, Manchester

    Awol Studios (5th Floor), Hope Mill, 113 Pollard Street, Manchester, M4 7JA

    17 November 2021
    6:00pm
    Details
  97. Comma Press x The Northern Short Story Festival
    16 October 2021
    2:00pm
    Details
  98. Bristol Writers’ Day
    25 September 2021
    6:00pm
    Details
  99. Refugee Tales IV at Hastings Literary Festival

    Kino-Teatr, 43-49 Norman Rd, St Leonards on Sea TN38 0EG, UK

    25 September 2021
    1:00pm
    Details