Date: Saturday 30th March 2019

Time: 2pm - 4pm

Location: fivefourstudios

Tickets: £6 - Available on Not Quite Light's website

“THE DARK CITY” will see a panel discussion and performances from poets and authors Kate Feld, Emily Oldfield, Nick Royle, Rosie Garland, Steve Marland, Anne Beswick and Helen Darby. They will explore the darker side of the city as an inspiration for crime novels, the gothic and film noir.

Nicholas Royle is the author of three short story collections – Mortality, Ornithology, The Dummy and Other Uncanny Stories – and seven novels, most recently First Novel. He has edited more than twenty anthologies and is series editor of Best British Short Stories. Reader in Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, he also runs Nightjar Press, which celebrates its tenth birthday this year, and is head judge of the Manchester Fiction Prize. A new short story collection and an English translation of Vincent de Swarte’s 1998 novel Pharricide are both forthcoming from Confingo Publishing.

Emily Oldfield is a writer from the North of England, inspired by the lonely edges of Lancashire and West Yorkshire wilds of her childhood. Her writing interests include poetry, short stories and creative non-fiction, often focusing on the alternate aspects of place. She is the Editor of HAUNT Manchester, seeking to explore the mysterious side of Greater Manchester.

Helen Darby is is Research Impact and Public Engagement Senior Manager for The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has been curating and co-ordinating the Gothic Manchester Festival and the Encountering Corpses project for the last five years.