Manchester Literature Festival 2025 programme announced

This year, Manchester Literature Festival is celebrating 20 years of stories, ideas and unforgettable voices!

The 2025 programme is here, featuring global bestsellers, radical thinkers and powerful poets.

We’re especially excited for the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester partnership events:

• Sarah Hall and Daisy Johnson
• The Faber Lecture 2025: Gary Younge
• Sayaka Murata
• Marcus du Sautoy
• The Poems of Seamus Heaney
• Mimi Khalvati: Rylands Poetry Reading
• Zadie Smith
• Jeanette Winterson 

The members’ presale is happening now – set your alarm for 10am on Thursday 14 August, when tickets go on general sale.