Centre for Place Writing

Creative-critical research centre @MMUEnglishDept @McrWritingSchl exploring place & its meanings. Co-directed by @DrDavidCooper & @RachelLichtenst

[Centre for Place Writing @PlaceCentre]

This morning we are excited to be launching #PLACE2021 - a digital project featuring new work by leading writers and artists from around the world alongside students, alumni & staff from @ManMetUni #placewriting #place https://t.co/CMFIOnHO5v

[ALCS @ALCS_UK]

Writers! 🚨 Please sign this open letter calling for Meta to be held accountable for the unathorised use of writers' works. 👇 #MakeItFair

[Wasafiri @WasafiriMag]

As part of Manchester Translation Series 2025, poet @supriyadhaliwal chairs a conversation with Nashwa Nasreldin & our Editor @SansyG at @Mcrpoetrylib on the role of translation in expanding literary landscapes.

18 March, 1-2.30pm GMT
Tickets: Free
https://t.co/qwX0W7IrPt

[Centre for Place Writing @PlaceCentre]

Next week affiliate member of the Centre for Place Writing, Dr Lara Williams, is in conversation with Alex Allison and Curtis Garner at @BlackwellsMcr

[Centre for Place Writing @PlaceCentre]

Very much looking forward to this event next month!

Dr Jodie Matthews, one of our Centre for Place Writing members will be presenting a paper titled: “Follow the Plants: Rhizomatic Reading Across Borders.”

[Centre for Place Writing @PlaceCentre]

Next week affiliate member of the Centre for Place Writing, Dr Lara Williams, is in conversation with Alex Allison and Curtis Garner at @BlackwellsMcr

[BlackwellsManchester @BlackwellsMcr]

MONDAY 17TH MARCH: A night of queer fiction with @alex_j_allison and Curtis Garner in conversation with Lara Williams, discussing their fantastic coming of age stories about toxic relationships, masculinity and longing! https://t.co/hM5eBO27kI

[Centre for Place Writing @PlaceCentre]

Very much looking forward to this event next month!

Dr Jodie Matthews, one of our Centre for Place Writing members will be presenting a paper titled: “Follow the Plants: Rhizomatic Reading Across Borders.”

[English at Manchester Met @MMUEnglishDept]

Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century: Hybrid Seminar. This event is hosted by the Long Nineteenth-Century Network at Man Met as part of the North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar. 2 April, 12-5pm. @NW_L19 @ManMetUni

https://t.co/Poc38o9Wmt

[English at Manchester Met @MMUEnglishDept]

Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century: Hybrid Seminar. This event is hosted by the Long Nineteenth-Century Network at Man Met as part of the North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar. 2 April, 12-5pm. @NW_L19 @ManMetUni

https://t.co/Poc38o9Wmt

[English at Manchester Met @MMUEnglishDept]

🇺🇸 A speculative documentary @ManMetUni Lecturer Reuben Martens helped write premiered last month at @UCLA. Grand Theft Eco, a machinima series and pedagogical engine, repurposes the game Grand Theft Auto to explore eco-futures of LA in the year 2050.
https://t.co/dNeGcaYxN9

[English at Manchester Met @MMUEnglishDept]

“Moving Mountains: Writing Nature through Illness and Disability” - an anthology of new writing edited by @ManMetUni @PlaceCentre postgraduate researcher Louise Kenward for @WeAreFootnote Press - is out now in paperback.

https://t.co/1VRgOlQXI1

[English at Manchester Met @MMUEnglishDept]

Louise Kenward, a postgraduate researcher @PlaceCentre @ManMetUni has written a new article, 'Strandlines and Storytelling', for @psychologist. The piece considers lessons from psychotherapy, chronic illness, and beachcombing.

https://t.co/nutpyHeZaE

[Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow @commapress]

What kind of Manc are you?

Red or Blue? Arndale or Trafford Centre? Northern Quarter or Curry Mile?

Take our quiz below & join us at Feel Good Club on the 20th for a spirited chat about the city we love with authors from The Book of Manchester!

🎟️https://t.co/fzAZIJ6Vng

[The Psychologist @psychmag]

Strandlines and storytelling…
@LouiseKenward with lessons from psychotherapy, chronic illness, and beachcombing.
Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness and Disability' is published in paperback today.
https://t.co/mS2I6Ax9xj

[English at Manchester Met @MMUEnglishDept]

An article co-authored by @ManMetUni @PlaceCentre Reader in Place Writing Rachel Lichtenstein and colleagues at UCL about their Memory Map projects has been published in the International Journal of Jewish Studies: https://t.co/ZzbyMY19C8

[Manchester Writing School @McrWritingSchl]

Join us for a very special evening presented by @ManMetUni for #GoGlobal Week: Jason Allen-Paisant in conversation with our Monique Roffey.

Jason will be reading from and talking about his first non-fiction book, "The Possibility of Tenderness". Ticket link in comments.

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...and Instagram

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We're also now on Bluesky...

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If you missed Helen at Kendal Mountain Festival recently, you can catch her on @BBCCountryfile this Sunday at 6pm, when she'll be talking about Ethel Haythornthwaite.

[Centre for Place Writing @PlaceCentre]

'We Are Butterflies Forever In Flight' is a stunning new poetry film by one of this year's Manchester Multilingual City Poets, Anjum Malik @anjummalik

"This migration forced, it did not phase our creativity, brilliance"

Watch in full here: https://t.co/Cx8YDk9xbE