ManMetMAPS

Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies |

[ManMetMAPS @ManMetMAPS]

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. https://t.co/2sXkLZzKyR @MMUEnglishDept

[ManMetMAPS @ManMetMAPS]

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.

https://t.co/tsa6H1nQeI

[Becky Swain @Becky_Swain]

We are excited to be partnering with our neighbour @ContactMcr 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 @McrLitFest and @McrPoetryLib

[ManMetMAPS @ManMetMAPS]

Congratulations to Shehan Karunatilaka @ShehanKaru on this wonderful news!

[The Booker Prizes @TheBookerPrizes]

We are delighted to announce that the WINNER of the #BookerPrize2022 is ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida ’ by Shehan Karunatilaka.

Discover more about the winning book: https://t.co/e5pLgvWmld
@shehankaru @sortofbooks @ShahidhaBari @hrcastor @amabanckou @mjohnharrison

[ManMetMAPS @ManMetMAPS]

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. https://t.co/kGuostY2Or

[ManMetMAPS @ManMetMAPS]

Looking forward to listening to papers by Sonya Andermahr, @PocoLCMoore, Henghameh Saroukhani, Agnes Woolley, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Minoli Salgado.

[ManMetMAPS @ManMetMAPS]

We are delighted to announce our upcoming symposium,Testimony and the Postcolonial, on Monday 19th September, followed by Professor Minoli Salgado’s book launch @McrPoetryLib In person or online attendance possible. Details and registration below @MMUEnglishDept @McrWritingSchl

[Manchester Writing School @McrWritingSchl]

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: https://t.co/GvphJKM4K1

[ManMetMAPS @ManMetMAPS]

Congratulations Monique! @moniqueroffey

[Manchester Writing School @McrWritingSchl]

Many congratulations to our stellar colleague @moniqueroffey!

[ManMetMAPS @ManMetMAPS]

Congratulations Malika! @Malikabooker

[Manchester Writing School @McrWritingSchl]

Congratulations to our amazing colleague @Malikabooker!

[ManMetMAPS @ManMetMAPS]

This Friday at 7pm you can hear our Prof Minoli Salgado discussing her book in Brighton. Book your ticket here. @McrWritingSchl @MMUEnglishDept https://t.co/8RAPcqhR39

[ManMetMAPS @ManMetMAPS]

Looking forward to this wonderful event tonight @McrPoetryLib where @anaffissahely will be reading from his collection High Desert.

[Manchester Poetry Library @McrPoetryLib]

High Desert is a psychedelic journal of end-times and an ode to the American Southwest.

Join us on 28 June for the launch of @anaffissahely's collection, with readings and discussion with @oriordanadam

Doors will open from 6.30 pm with drinks provided!

https://t.co/1COlDlCwi7

[New Voices in Postcolonial Studies @NVPoco]

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 -- https://t.co/wgFgCSA9Zr
🤩🤩

[Manchester City of Literature @MCRCityofLit]

"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"

- @lemnsissay, #FestivalofLibraries 🎉

[Manchester City of Literature @MCRCityofLit]

Wonderful to hear from @AMcMillanPoet tonight from @McrPoetryLib 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

[ManMetMAPS @ManMetMAPS]

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

[Transition @Transition_Mag]

Guest-edited by long-time editorial board chairman and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, alongside scholar Alessandra Di Maio, Transition Magazine’s groundbreaking 60th-anniversary issue 132: The Black in the Mediterranean Blue is here. https://t.co/QlUwVkkbuo

[Manchester Writing School @McrWritingSchl]

Making Artistic Sense or Trauma - our Professor of International Writing Minoli Salgado is taking part in this event @KingsCollegeLon next week. Book here: https://t.co/Y3NvF19CZq

[ManMetMAPS @ManMetMAPS]

This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from @anaffissahely later this month @McrPoetryLib and to hear him read from High Desert.

[Manchester Poetry Library @McrPoetryLib]

Our Writing About Labour Rights workshop with @anaffissahely will instruct on how the labour movement has been written about by workers.

It will also take place before our celebration of his poetry collection High Desert at 7pm.

Find out more here! 👇

https://t.co/5KovbxOi0p

[ManMetMAPS @ManMetMAPS]

Prof. Minoli Salgado will be speaking at ‘Making Artistic sense of Trauma’, https://t.co/7DdlUTz07f at King’s College London on 14th June at 6.30 pm

[Becky Swain @Becky_Swain]

Congratulations to @PeterRammPoet and @leoneross who are this years Manchester Writing Competition winners 📣📣 @McrWritingSchl @ManMetUni

Thanks also to all the stunning poets who were shortlisted. Your readings this evening were exceptional 💫