About MLF

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Manchester Literature Festival, built on the legacy of its very successful predecessor, Manchester Poetry Festival, provides unique and imaginative opportunities for audiences to experience high quality live literature through an annual festival. The festival celebrates the power of writing across all creative and technological media. We produce a cutting-edge programme of activities that challenges the boundaries of what is traditionally understood to be a literature event and aim to promote internationalism, diversity and independence.

MLF is uniquely programmed under three strands of activity:

Read presents some of the most influential and inspirational authors writing in the world today in prestigious and unusual venues around Manchester, providing an opportunity for people to meet their literary heroes and discover new ones.

Independent is a programme of readings and events showcasing the best in regional and national independent publishing, writing and production.

Freeplay is a more experimental strand providing a series of events and happenings exploring the spaces where new writing meets new technology and media.

Manchester Literature Festival 2008 team:

Festival Director: Cathy Bolton

Festival Administrator/Events Manager: Jon Atkin

Blog Awards Director: Kate Feld

Board of Directors: Katherine Beacon, Jan Bradley, Jerome de Groot, Matthew Frost, Matthew Welton, Jane Mathieson, Alison Spenceley.

Press & PR: Lethal Communications, Catherine Braithwaite & Shelagh Bourke

Festival Volunteers: Simon 'Bubbles' Richardson, Almira Holmes, James Mcgrath, Sue Stern, Emma Foster, Alec Cook, Alison Todd, Claire Symonds, Phillip Buchan, Natalie Wood, Gordon Shand, Angela Summerill, Leah Eades, Dianna Wise, Rachel Jones, Karen Rose, Debbie Despres, Lewis Cuthbert, Matt Dive, Kamila Rymajdo, Emily Stephenson, Amy Tickles, Paul Andrew and Sameena.