Glorious sunny hour reading at #PageAgainstTheMachine with granddaughter @bookhiveand National Centre for Writing in Plantation Gardens ☀️ #UNESCO #citiesoflit
First day of Polar Connection at the Palais de la Bourse de Lyon
Impressive setting!
#CitiesofLit #Lyon
Yesterday’s visit was also a handover session for this autumn’s Slamovision. We have a tough act to follow on from Nottingham City of Literature’s excellent hosting in 2022 and 2023...
#CitiesofLit
You have until the 23rd to see Manchester City of Literature’s #multilingual exhibition #Threads where my poem about Oxford Mills is on display! Go to Manchester Histories Hub at Manchester Libraries to see how textiles and literature are interwoven through cultural identities across 10 UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #CitiesofLit
Fabulous to be at the launch of Manchester City of Literature’s 2023 International #MotherLanguageDay programme!
#Manchester organisations have lots of events up to April, celebrating language diversity across the city!
#MCRIMLD23
#CitiesofLit @unesco UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳UK Anna Nsubuga - UK Ambassador to UNESCO #cityoflit
📣 Discover the new UNESCO UK map, featuring Norwich #CityofLit !
From stunning coastlines to vibrant cities, you can explore all the unique UK #UNESCO sites. See if you can spot our fellow #CitiesofLit too!
Download your free copy: buff.ly/44VR7MX
#SeeThingsDifferently
Beautiful day for #PageAgainstTheMachine today with The Book Hive ☀️ We love seeing photos coming in from other #UNESCO #citiesoflit too!
Norfolk & Norwich Festival #CityofLiterature #CityofLit23
✍️Today is #WorldPoetryDay2024
🗣️The #CitiesofLit network are marking the day celebrating with the theme, 'Dawn of Poetic Spring.'
Read more about it here: bit.ly/4a2Y69N
Sometimes it’s the quiet ones that surprise you.
An understated story of middle age and swapping writing for chiropody amongst the elderly residents of a former GDR suburb.
Winner of the #DublinLitAward 2023 Dublin UNESCO #CitiesofLit
Arrived in Lyon to represent Manchester City of Literature at this week’s Polar Connection
Tomorrow meeting partners from Ville de Lyon and Villa Gillet ahead of the festival professional programme on Friday #CitiesofLit
City of Literature UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 How many #CitiesOfLit have their own anthology?
Avril Gray Edinburgh Literary Salon The Golden Hours is available from the Literary Salon shop, but also can be ordered from Waterstones (especially if you're outside the UK)
Get your copy for Christmas.
edinburghliterarysalon.org/shop
Whirlwind tour of Lyon today started with Villa Gillet: former home of textile merchant Paul Gillet gifted to Ville de Lyon to become their literature house.
Not jealous, not jealous at all #CitiesofLit
Lots to share with Manchester Literature Festival + Manchester City of Literature partners!
🇺🇦 Join us TODAY on 2nd anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine as UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #CitiesofLit join together in solidarity w/ #ReadingforOdesa
Thanks Scottish Poetry Library for offering this reading of poem curated by Scotland's Makar (National Poet),
Kathleen Jamie
bit.ly/3uDrZxK
🗣️Celebrate #MCRIMLD23
📚We invite you to come and join Magaly Flores in the Tell me a Story series with: 'El Quijote para niños'
📆Sat 18 Feb · 12 pm
Free registration➡️bit.ly/ts_quixote
Manchester City of Literature Manchester Libraries
#Manchester #Storytelling #ChildrenBooks #CitiesofLit
We're looking forward to The London Book Fair, 11-13 March 2025 next week where our Ivan Wadeson will be speaking on Literary Translation alongside fellow UNESCO UK #CitiesofLit Exeter City of Literature, Nottingham City of Literature and National Centre for Writing.
Join us 14th March at 3.25pm #LBF24
londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/whats-on…
Please do check this thread of international opportunities open to writers, poets and translators via the #CitiesofLit network. Stay in Kafka's house, get involved in virtual residency with org in Melbourne or head to Nanjing for a residency connected to 'Urban Life and Lit' ✨🙏
Happy #MotherLanguageDay ! I am happy to be a poet representing Edinburgh in the ‘Words from the Childhood Home’ project. It is a multilingual chain poem written by nominated poets from the UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #citiesoflit . The poem is now exhibited in Manchester. Find out more 👇
Happy International #MotherLanguageDay from Exeter #CityofLiterature ! 💬
We'll be popping up throughout the day to celebrate today with activity from across the #CitiesofLit network and some interesting insights from closer to home 🔍
