One of my favourite annual events is the Manchester Literature Festival (MLF) which has been a calendar staple since I moved to the city in the noughties. So on hearing the news that this year’s MLF would be a...
Read MoreJackie Kay’s 2010 acclaimed memoir Red Dust Road is the story of a journey as Kay comes to terms with the fact that she’s adopted and gradually wends her way from Scotland to Nigeria in search of her birth parents....
Read MoreInside Manchester Central Library, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors and award-winning author Jackie Kay ask ‘what does freedom look like to you?’ In a discussion that raises more questions than it...
Read MoreI can’t think of a better twosome to round off this year’s Manchester Literature Festival than Jackie Kay and Ali Smith. Between them, they’ve written a host of poetry, plays, novels, scripts and articles and somehow found the...
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