MAPS are truly delighted and relieved to announce that our *twice* postponed symposium is now definitely going ahead! Tuesday 18th April. Book your place here. eventbrite.co.uk/e/testimony-an… English at Manchester Met

We are very pleased to announce a new date for
Testimony and the Postcolonial: A Symposium
Now on Wednesday 9th November 12.30-5pm. Grosvenor East Building 4.04, All Saints, Manchester Metropolitan University.

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We are excited to be partnering with our neighbour Contact just along Oxford Road for the More Fiya event tmw night 22 Oct 7pm.
Six poets read from a scorching anthology that brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets with Manchester Literature Festival and Manchester Poetry Library

Congratulations to Shehan Karunatilaka Shehan Karunatilaka on this wonderful news!

We are delighted to announce that MAPS director Professor Minoli Salgado will give her inaugural lecture next Thursday 20th October 5:30-7:00pm. Unsettling Truths: The Migrant Writer as Creative Witness. Register your attendance below. eventbrite.com/e/430756533387

Manchester Poetry Library are hosting the North West launch of Words of Colour’s My Words, an exciting new digital exhibition spotlighting the cultural contribution of poets of colour in Britain over 250 years. 14 Sept, 6pm. Book your free tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-words-the…

Congratulations Monique! Monique Roffey

Congratulations Malika! Malika Booker

This Friday at 7pm you can hear our Prof Minoli Salgado discussing her book in Brighton. Book your ticket here. Manchester Writing School English at Manchester Met eventbrite.co.uk/e/twelve-cries…

Looking forward to this wonderful event tonight Manchester Poetry Library where André Naffis-Sahely will be reading from his collection High Desert.

We are pleased to inform that the final schedule of our June 2022 conference, 'Imposition of Power: Quest for Identity' (ONLINE), is now out in the world!!
Please register to secure your place at this amazing intersectional international conference -- surl.li/ccrta
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'The librarian is a radical on our high street. The librarian is connected to the community. Information is power and that's what a librarian is doing every day of their lives. I think of librarians as a very important symbol of democracy'

- lemn sissay OBE FRSL, #FestivalofLibraries 🎉

Wonderful to hear from Andrew McMillan tonight from Manchester Poetry Library as we hear poems from brand new collection #100QueerPoems for the #FestivalofLibraries .

'Libraries provide a space to enter into a conversation about words and ideas' - Becky Swain

An indispensable read: The Black in the Mediterranean Blue, special issue of Transition Magazine

Making Artistic Sense or Trauma - our Professor of International Writing Minoli Salgado is taking part in this event King's College London next week. Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-artis…

This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from André Naffis-Sahely later this month Manchester Poetry Library and to hear him read from High Desert.

Prof. Minoli Salgado will be speaking at ‘Making Artistic sense of Trauma’, repeaterbooks.com/meetup-event/m… at King’s College London on 14th June at 6.30 pm