Manchester Literature Festival is joining forces with Oxygen Books to put together a very special event for this year’s festival in October 2012, and we need your help in selecting content for it.
Can you recommend any writing that, for you, perfectly sums up the City of Manchester, past, present or even future?
Oxygen Books’ city-pick series features some of the best writing on favourite world cities, from New York, Berlin and Paris to London, Amsterdam, Dublin and Venice and has been called ‘wonderful’ (The Guardian), ‘superb’ (The Times) and ‘sublime’ (The Sydney Morning Herald).
Now the book publisher is working with the Manchester Literature Festival and supported by Arts Council England to find the very best writing about one of the UK’s most literary cities. ‘We know there’s a wealth of writing out there about the city,’ says Oxygen’s publisher, Malcolm Burgess. ‘We’d love readers and writers to get in touch with us with their choices, ideally 500 words maximum, whether it’s fiction or non-fiction, on- or off-line, and if they can give us reasons for their choices that’s even better. We’d love to see any new published writing too about Manchester. All contributors will be fully acknowledged at our festival event.’
Oxygen Books will be presenting city-pick Manchester at the Manchester Literature Festival, together with a well-known actor. A city-pick Manchester pod-cast will also be available. Any ideas about Manchester writing should be sent to malcolm.burgess3[at]btopenworld.com.
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