Rewriting the North: Rewriting the North: Folklore, Myth and Rural Communities

Still in its original 1806 building, the Portico Library celebrates both the historic and the contemporary culture of Manchester, welcoming the public, researchers and members to its unique 19th-century book collection and 21st-century events and exhibitions.

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The 'Rewriting the North' event series explores the relationship between writing and place and celebrates how writers are reimagining the North of England. Supported by The Portico Library and Centre for Place Writing. At our third event in the series we are joined by Fiona Mozley and Andrew Michael Hurley to talk about folklore, myth and rural communities.
Fiona Mozley was born in London and grew up in York. She studied History at the University of Cambridge and later lived in Buenos Aires and London. She is currently studying for a PhD at the University of York in medieval history, researching concepts of decay in the Middle Ages.
Her debut novel, Elmet, was published in 2017 to great acclaim. It won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Polari First Book Prize, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, as well as numerous other awards.
Andrew Michael Hurley is the author of two short story collections, Cages and The Unusual Death of Julie Christie. His first novel, The Loney, was originally published in 2014 by Tartarus Press and then John Murray a year later, after which it won the 2015 Costa ‘First Novel’ award and the 2016 British Book Industry awards for ‘Debut Novel’ and ‘Book of the Year.’ The Loney has been translated into almost twenty languages and is currently being developed as a feature film.
His second book, Devil’s Day, was published in October 2017 and was listed as one of the books of the year in The Times, Financial Times and the Mail on Sunday. It went on to jointly win the 2018 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award for best second novel.
Hurley’s short fiction has appeared in Granta, The Best British Short Stories 2017, The Spectator, the Seaside Special collection published by Blue Moose, This Dreaming Isle (Unsung Stories) and in the English Heritage anthology, Eight Ghosts. The author lives in Lancashire with his family and teaches Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Writing School. His third novel, Starve Acre, will be published in October 2019.

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