Bad Language @BadLanguageMcr
Live literature in Manchester. Voted UK's Best Regular Spoken Word Night – twice! Run by @JPMDaly & @FatRoland. ✉️ [email protected] badlanguagemcr.com Manchester Joined October 2009-
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Our first open mic event for over five years. Sign up now for Bad Language at The Cultural Welcome, Manchester on 8 October. It's good to be back! badlanguagemcr.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/bad…
Bad Language co-founder Daniel Carpenter reads from his collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER, with a Manchester-inspired story especially for us.
TONIGHT! @BadLanguageMcr is back for a special one-off event celebrating the launches of @DanCarpenter85’s HUNTING BY THE RIVER and @Glen_J_Brown’s MOTHER NAKED. They’ll be joined by @AbiFAHynes and @matthewhill. Doors: 6.30, starts: 7.00 Venue: @anthonyburgess 🎫👇🏻
We're going to have a real good time together. We shall listen to words and we shall clap and rollerskate and high-five each other until our hands fall off. Make sure you grab your ticket! x.com/DanCarpenter85…
Mother Naked is out in a couple of weeks. Thank you to @PressPeninsula and everyone who has helped make it a reality. In the meantime, pre-orders really help. So if you want some fancy some Middle Ages weirdness, the link is below. But if not, just enjoy the cover!
Matt Hill's latest novel LAMB (@DeadInkBooks) has plants growing on the cover. We put it in a plant pot to make sure it doesn't wilt before this Thursday's event. He'll be reading alongside Dan Carpenter, Glen James Brown & Abi Hynes. Doors are at 6.30pm. eventbrite.co.uk/e/blackwells-x…
Watch me host a book launch with @BadLanguageMcr @BlackwellsMcr on Thursday. But watch only me. Do not look at the guest authors: they may get ideas. eventbrite.co.uk/e/blackwells-x…
Our co-founder Dan keeps banging on about his new book. If you want to tell him to shut up, come to the launch of HUNTING BY THE RIVER, launching alongside Glen James Brown's MOTHER NAKED, this Thursday evening. x.com/DanCarpenter85…
One of our two support readers at our Bad Language / Blackwell's bash this Thursday is ABI HYNES. Her impressive CV includes an adaptation of Anne Of Green Gables featuring Catherine O'Hara -- a.k.a. Moira from Schitt's Creek! Fold in the cheese, David! eventbrite.co.uk/e/blackwells-x…

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