Liverpool's longest-running writing festival, WoWFEST, returns in May with a line-up of famous names. WoWFEST: FUTURE IMPERFECT will take place online and in venues across the city, featuring such headliners as award-winning journalist Gary Younge (pictured), poet Hannah Lowe, The Responder creator Tony Schumacher, authors Ashleigh Nugent and Danielle Owen-Jones, and ... Read More...
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The Interview: Andy Grant on life-changing injury to medal success Interview with Andy Grant Bootle-born Andy Grant joined the Royal Marines aged 17. Three years later he was hit by an explosion in Afghanistan and suffered catastrophic injuries including a severely damaged right leg. Following countless operations and against doctors’ advice, Andy chose to ... Read More...
Save the Dates: Liverpool's unmissable events and attractions We look ahead to round up some of the city's best festivals, events and celebrations worth booking into your diary. Words by Lawrence Saunders WoWFEST 2018 to bring big names and timely topics Liverpool literary organisation Writing on the Wall is lining up a melting pot ... Read More...
A special event to raise mental health awareness will take place at the Rotunda cafe in North Liverpool today (16 January) to mark Blue Monday. Liverpool Mental Health Consortium has teamed up with Writing on the Wall to launch the audio-themed A Listening Party on Blue Monday to promote wellbeing on what is ... Read More...
The public is being invited to help create a special sound installation with renowned composer Patrick Dineen, as part of Liverpool’s Mental Health Festival. Participants will work with Patrick, who composed a piece for the opening of Liverpool’s year as Capital of Culture in 2008, over a 10-week period before unveiling ... Read More...
Drawing from experience Renowned comic illustrator Dave Gibbons has worked on some of the biggest and best known graphic novels and comic characters of all time. Having created the iconic ‘Watchmen’ with writer Alan Moore to drawing the likes of ‘Batman’, ‘Green Lantern’ and ‘Doctor Who’, it’s no wonder he’s been ... Read More...
A full programme of events for this year’s WoWFest has been announced. Dave Gibbons, Isy Suttie, and Holly McNish are some of the authors, writers and performers heading to the event when it returns to the city in May. Now into its 17th year, WoWFest is the longest running literature festival in ... Read More...
This April will commemorate 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare. Hundreds of events are planned across the country to mark the occasion, with plenty happening here on Merseyside. To make sure you don’t miss out, Your Move has tracked down the best and most unique performances and plays taking ... Read More...
The celebrated graphic novel artist and writer Dave Gibbons has been announced for WoWFest 2016. Best known for his collaborations with Alan Moore on famous titles such as Watchmen and the Superman story ‘For the Man Who Has Everything’, Dave will be discussing creative techniques and his career to date. Regarded as ... Read More...
Fans of sci-fi to superheroes will be in for a treat this year as Writing on the Wall has unveiled its 2016 festival theme. Organisers are hoping to reach the biggest audience yet for the annual WoW Fest writing and literature festival as a programme of events across Liverpool explores graphic ... Read More...