Bluedot

Journal

David Gaffney lives in Manchester. He is the author of several books including Sawn-Off Tales (2006)…

Valerie O'Riordan is a graduate of the MA and PhD programmes at the University of Manchester's Centr…

Geoff Ryman has taught fiction at the Centre for New Writing since 2005: one of the world's lea…

John McAuliffe's poetry includes THE WAY IN (Gallery, 2015), joint winner of the 2016 Michael Hartne…

Vona Groarke has published ten books with Gallery Press, the latest being, in 2016, Selected Poems (…

Championing contemporary fiction, poetry and creative writing since 2007. The Centre for New Writing…

Art and science have been described as the "twin engines of creativity", however, they are often con…

BTTF Film Replicas was born from a love of the Back To The Future trilogy and came about from the vi…

Scheduled to take place each summer, the COSMOS commission invites an international artist to collab…

internationally acclaimed French theatre company, Compagnie De Quidams, who will host their ephemera…

Simon is an artist currently based in Salford, and he has lived in and around Manchester for most of…

Deep inside the woodlands there is an area like no other. The trees have become home to a group of e…

Alison Smith transforms recycled materials into sculptural lighting and light installations. After e…

For 2017, we are delighted to announce award winning Tokyo-Based Media Artist, DJ and Programmer, Da…

Adam Roberts is an academic, critic and novelist. He also writes parodies under the pseudonyms of A.…