Louder than Words Festival returns to Manchester to celebrate the relationship between music and writing

Poetry double bill as rising stars Hollie McNish and Jackie Hagan perform at Manchester Literature Festival

‘Art is not going to be the thing that brings down borders and barriers… but Art may remind us of humanity.’

As we near Foxglove’s first birthday, Elizabeth Gibson calls on young writers to persue their dreams

Want to get stuck in to student life, but not sure where to start? Check out our guide to the societies that have something to offer everyone

You’re always there but never quite here. Letters flow through your veins as you breath rhetoric; your heart an amalgam of emojis I sit… waiting… watching… … anticipating the response… My solitude satiated with interaction, I’m no longer sure if I am ever alone. And I wonder… what makes you different from the other skeletons […]

A featured poem by Books Contributor Elizabeth Gibson (@Grizonne)

Featured prose: Joely Thomas writes a moving short story set in the southern Gaza strip

Find out what’s new with the Manchester Creative Writing Society and how you can get involved

A short story about the events that ensue after a near-death experience

The Historian Magazine will this week be releasing a special issue called ‘Lessons from History: The Delhi Belly Interest Rates of 1858’

No Komodo dragons were harmed in the writing of this story

A short story about a breakdown of a marriage from the point of view of an alternative and unique narrator

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