Time to Read Blog
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New Words Festival – creative writing workshops with Sarah Schofield
Do you enjoy creative writing? Is playing with words - writing poems, stories or memoir - something you'd like to try? Time to Read invite you to join writer, Sarah Schofield, for two creative writing workshops for Tameside Libraries and Wirral Libraries on Monday 1...
New Words Festival programme announced
We've just announced plans for our first virtual book festival, happening in March and tickets are available now. Eleven events include four poetry and fiction workshops, five author events and readings plus an extra special panel discussion. All events are online and...
New words – new books
To accompany the New Words Festival you'll find a new collection of books in each Time to Read library service. All the books are available to reserve and borrow from your local libraries or to buy from the publishers. Visit the publisher's websites to buy the books;...
New Words Festival announced for March
The New Words Books Festival reveals a dazzling digital literary line-up for March 2021 event
For National Care Leavers Week – Louise Wallwein MBE
Time to Read is proud to be working with Louise Wallwein MBE for National Care Leavers Week 2020. Today sees the first special online performance of GLUE broadcast from the writer’s living room - for young people in Lancashire. Following the live event, Louise will...
Digital Words: Tameside Libraries readers’ and writers festival
Digital Words is the 2020 Tameside Libraries Readers’ and Writers’ Festival. This year the popular annual event, which takes place throughout October, is taking place online due to restrictions imposed to contain the coronavirus. As always, the festival presents the...
Libraries Week across the North West
Coronavirus may have altered the library landscape but it hasn't stopped public libraries across the North West celebrating Libraries Week. In 2020, Libraries Week will take place between the 5th and 10th October, celebrating the nation’s much-loved libraries and...
Carcanet Virtual Book Launch: Katherine Horrex’s Growlery
You are invited to join Carcanet online to celebrate the launch of Katherine Horrex's debut poetry collection, Growleryat 7pm on Wednesday 26 August. Hosting the reading will be poet and critic, Maryam Hessavi, joining Katherine to discuss the new work. Audience...
South Asian Heritage Month needs you
South Asian Heritage Month (SAHM) runs from 18 July to 17 August and the Manchester Museum is working in partnership with the British Council to bring this to life online. SAHM aims to commemorate, mark and celebrate South Asian history and culture, through education,...
Welcome back libraries!
Saturday 4 July saw the reopening of many public venues across the north west and it was smiles all round as eight of Manchester’s libraries opened their doors once more. There were cheers from the queue outside Didsbury Library when they reopened and across the eight...