Name: An Evening of New Writing: Kate Lord Brown and Tina Cole
Start: 2026-03-20T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-04-20T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Manchester Poetry Library at Manchester Metropolitan University

An Evening of New Writing: Kate Lord Brown and Tina Cole

Join us for an evening of poetry and fiction as we welcome back two distinguished Manchester Writing School alumni.
About this Event

Join us for an evening of poetry and fiction as we welcome back two distinguished Manchester Writing School alumni.

Tina Cole graduated from our MA in Creative Writing in 2023. Her work has appeared in journals and she has won several national poetry awards. Her latest pamphlet is What it Was (Mark Time Books, 2023). Kate Lord Brown is an internationally published novelist. Her debut novel The Beauty Chorus (Corvus, 2011) was workshopped during her time on the MA and she has just published her seventh novel The Golden Hour (Simon & Schuster, 2025). They will read alongside a selection of our current MA poetry students. Expect an inspiring evening of conversation, insight and celebration of alumni achievement.

Tina Cole completed her MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2024. She has four published pamphlets: I Almost Knew You (2018), Forged (Yaffle Press, 2021), What it Was (Mark Time Books, 2023) and Nothing Louche or Bohemian (Black Pear Press, 2025). Her writing mostly focuses on Black Country history, female ancestry and generational trauma. A fifth pamphlet will be published in 2026 as a result of winning the 2025 Poetry Space Poetry Pamphlet Competition. She is also a past winner of a number of national poetry competitions and most recently was placed second in the 2025 Canterbury University Poetry Competition.

Kate Lord Brown gained an MA in Creative Writing from the Manchester Writing School. Her 2011 debut The Beauty Chorus was workshopped on the course. Her seventh novel, The Golden Hour, has just been published, and she has had top ten bestsellers in countries including the UK, US, Germany and Norway. Kate wrote the first book club column in the Middle East for two years and has written for publications including the Daily Telegraph, Good Housekeeping and Condé Nast Traveller on everything from writing and expat life to Arab horses, perfume and Japanese festivals. Kate writes epic C20 historical fiction with heart.