Rainy City Stories

Manchester is a city made of stories – some have been long forgotten, some have never been told and some have yet to be written. The Rainy City Stories project invites readers to engage with their city in a new way, opening up a hidden landscape of fact and fiction.

We’ve created an interactive literary cityscape; an online map of Manchester that enables you to click on a location and read a story or poem set there. To kick-start the project we’ve commissioned site-specific stories from some of the area’s most exciting established writers, including Rajeev Balasubramanyam, Mike Duff, Jackie Kay and Nicholas Royle, but anyone can contribute their stories or poetry to the website. To find out how, visit ww.rainycitystories.com 

Watch out for our series of writing workshops and related events through 2008 and 2009, culminating in a live literature event during next year’s festival.