Salford University graduate Anna Heinamaa narrowly missed out on a Golden Globe for her foreign language film The Fencer last weekend but she’s still got a shot at an Oscar!

A 100-year-old World War One diary has inspired a retired engineer to take up his hobby, writing, as a career.

Salford’s punk poet Jon Cooper-Clarke has set pen to paper to create a poem to celebrate the British coastline in collaboration with the National Trust.

Yesterday afternoon saw distinguished guests from across Manchester come together to celebrate the installation of Salford University’s new Chancellor.

Manchester-born stars are set to appear in a new crime flick which is due to be filmed right here in the city centre next month.

American classics such as To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men were dropped from the GCSE syllabus under new guidelines from Mr Gove.

Peter Bowker’s latest drama ‘From Here to There’ uses the day the IRA bomb went off just outside the Arndale Centre on June 15 1996 as a backdrop for an emotive comedy-drama.

Author talks about the stage play of her best-selling novel.

Chamber Music is stockport-born writer Tom Benn’s second novel.

Former cleaner Karen couldn’t read or write three years ago.

One of the country’s best known literary figures is to become a professor of creative writing at The University of Manchester