Writers at the Library
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All events free (unless stated)
Creative Writing Workshop - Historical Fiction
Forum Library Wythenshawe
Saturday 4 September
1 - 4 pm
To support our Flashback Fiction historical writing competition, writer Margaret Murphy is running a workshop on how to create historical characters, period and detail. Using short examples from their favourite authors, participants will be encouraged to write a short piece or story, as a basis for entering the competition or simply to try their hand at writing historical fiction.
For details of the competition see http://www.time-to-read.co.uk/read/.
FREE. Places Limited. To book a place e-mail Rose Ryan, Reader Development Coordinator: r.ryan@manchester.gov.uk or telephone 0161 234 1317.
Patrick Procktor: Art and Life
Becker Room, First Floor, City Library
Thursday 9 September
6.30pm
Patrick Procktor and his great friend David Hockney were known as "the dandy twins of the art world" in the 1960s. An outstanding portrait artist, the 60s icons Procktor painted were also his friends - Jagger, Hendrix and the playwright Joe Orton, whose portrait now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. Ian Massey has written a "handsome, copiously illustrated, well researched and sensitive appraisal of the art and artist" (The Spectator) and will give a talk about this fascinating and complex man.
Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets
Becker Room, First Floor, City Library
Wednesday 29 September
6pm
This is the first anthology (edited by Roddy Lumsden, published by Bloodaxe) to comprehensively represent the generation of poets who have emerged since the mid-1990s. Lumsden "hosts a supremely eclectic party for 85 'new' British & Irish poets" (The Independent) - including Paul Farley and Matthew Welton, who will be reading this evening. It will be introduced by Roddy Lumsden.
For more information on any event please contact Libby Tempest: telephone 0161 234 1981; email l.tempest@manchester.gov.uk.
