Queer Lit & Social Refuge

 

Queer Lit, 27 Great Ancoats St, Ancoats, Manchester M4 5AJ, UK. 

Mala Secret Garden Manchester

 8 Dale Street, 

Manchester M1 1JA 

England

+44 7310 052230 

 

 

web site  

Creative Cafe Project Activities    

book crossing  

live music

rent a table   

 

venue hire 

Night and Day Cafe, Manchester

 

26 Oldham Street

Northern Quarter

Manchester

M1 1JN

Phone:

0161 236 4597

 

 

Website:

nightnday.org

 

Creative Cafe Project Activities

exhibitions 

gallery 

live music 

The House of Books and Friends

81 King Street 

Manchester 

M2 4AH

 

 

Web site 

Creative Cafe Project Activities  

• Meet the author
• Book clubs
• Music
• Networking
• Readings
• Creative writing
• Storytime
• Signings
• Talks with charity partners

The Vienna Coffee House

74 Mosley St

Manchester 

M2 3LW

0161 236 3966

 

 

Creative Cafe Project Activities

gallery

rent-a-table  

Home Manchester UK

2 Tony Wilson Place
Manchester
M15 4FN

Box Office 0161 200 1500

Cafe Bar 0161 212 3500

Enquiries 0161 228 7621

web site 

 

Creative Cafe Project Activities 

cinema  

exhibitions

live music

live theatre

workshops 

venue hire 

 

The Night and Day Cafe,

 Night & Day Café

26 Oldham St
Manchester
M1 1JN

0161 236 1822
contact@nightnday.org

 

 

 

Web site 

 

Creative Cafe project Activities 

exhibitions 

gallery 

live music 

The Fallow Cafe, Manchester, UK

Fallow Café
2a Landcross Road
Fallowfield
Manchester
M14 6NA
0161 224 0467
General information and enquiries:
info@fallowcafe.com

Web site

Creative Cafe Project Activities 

live music
venue hire  

Review of Waterstone’s Deansgate Mancehester

Review of Waterstone’s Deansgate Mancehester

 

Many writers have a love / hate relationship with Waterstone’s. This giant chain store may have squeezed out some of our beloved indie bookshops. It’s not easy getting them to sell your books. At times it seems like an exclusive club to which it is difficult to get membership. Yet, it is a bookshop full of fabulous books. The people who work there are, it seems, lovers of books and its café is also peopled with those who love the written word. 

I’ve had two encounters recently with the café in this branch of Waterstone’s. I met a writer whom I’m mentoring. She was held up by problems with trains and this allowed me plenty of time to see what was going on there. I drank a huge cup of coffee and got on with some writing. I wasn’t the only one working this way: there were plenty of people bent over tablets and lap-tops. It was also clear that many people were holding meetings and I know of other colleagues who have used this space for that purpose. And some people just sit and read.  

A few days later we held our SCBWI network group there and I belong to the Young Adult critique group. We couldn’t all fit in the events room.  We took over two tables in the café. The staff didn’t mind: we were buying lunch and lots of drinks. One or two other visitors looked at us curiously. They were interested, though, rather than irritated. This also seemed the right sort of activity for the café.

The café’s been there quite a while now and is beginning to fade a little. No matter. It is still a comfortable space for the creative practitioner. It offers a decent if not spectacular range of food and drink at reasonable prices.    

 
Nice place to be.      
               

Waterstone's Deansgate, Manchester

91 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 2BW

• Call us on 0161 837 3000
• Email us at manchester@waterstones.com
• Twitter: @WaterstonesMCR
• Facebook: pages/Waterstones-Deansgate/121369147905788

Waterstone's Deasngate Manchester

Creative Cafe Project Activities 

• book events
• networking 

Read a review here.

Review of Chapter One, Manchester

I visited this remarkable bookshop / café in one of the dark days after Christmas, just about in the New Year.  Normally on such a day I would not venture out unless I had to. It was below four degrees Celsius. However, I was on my way to a meeting that was cancelled at the last minute and I was kind of in the area. 

It is a remarkable space. The floor seems only half finished but that somehow adds to its charm.  There is a big water feature ad its gentle tinkling keeps the atmosphere calm. The staff were friendly and actually made me feel rather like royalty.  I ordered my Americano and a waiter brought it to my seat later.  I chose to sit in a high-backed chair near one of the windows. There was plenty of choice in seating, including some fascinating booths furnished with small tables and typewriters. The cake looked fabulous but as I knew that there was Christmas cake waiting at home I refrained this time. Another time I won’t hold back.  

  

Even on a quiet day like today there were clearly half a dozen or so people networking / holding meetings. Two groups had found very private spaces. Another young man worked away on his Apple Mac. There is easy access here with a good signal to the Manchester free Wi-Fi. I hooked up my phone with no problems. I sat and wrote in my note book. 

This place wins as a bookstore, too. It sells an unusual mix of books and they are beautifully presented.  It’s the type of store I’d go to in order to buy a special present.

Well worth a visit.                  

Junipers Coffee Shop Chorlton

514 Wilbraham Rd, 
Manchester 
M21 9AW

07450 395293

Junipers Coffee Shop  

Review here.

Creative Cafe Project Activities 

Books (very near to Chorlton books shop - buy a book then go to the cafe to read it!) 
Networking 
     

Chapter One Books, Manchester UK

Chapter One Books

Chatsworth House

19 Lever Street

Manchester

United Kingdom

M1 1BY

Review 

One cold and frosty morning 

Creative Cafe Project Activities 

• Books 
• Networking  
• Wi-Fi

Elizabeth Gaskell House

84 Plymouth Grove
 Manchester
M13 9LW
0161 273 2215

 

Elizabeth Gaskell House

Creative Café Project  Activities 

Book crossing 

Book groups

Literature workshops 

Live music 

Writing group  

 

 

The Urmston Bookshop Revisited

It’s that time of year again. I need to top up my supply of “further reading” for my second year undergraduate course “Intro to Children’s Literature”. To some extent I do this as I go along and meet new books throughout the year.  Yet a visit to a bookshop gives a real sense of what’s available and what is deemed to be popular. We’re always on the lookout for the next classic.  In children’s lit the boundary between the classic and the popular is a little less well defined as in adult literature. So, it’s good to see what people are buying and what the bookshop is risking. It’s particularly good to do this at an independent bookshop. That’s where true book lovers go.

The Urmston book shop, of course also has an excellent little café, providing good tea and coffee and locally sourced cake.

So, what better way to spend an afternoon: select a few books, then select a piece of cake and a pot of tea and settle down to start reading the books. I can really recommend the carrot cake. 

The café has changed since I was last there. It has moved into the events room so is a little bigger that the two tables set up in the corridor to the room. The cake display and kitchen is still there.

There are still plenty of events and book clubs.

Really worth a visit. I’m just looking for the next excuse. I’m very tempted by a couple of the events anyway.            

The Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester

2 Dale St,
Manchester M1 1JW
Tel. 0161 236 0100
Email. info@nexusartcafe.com

The Nexus Art cafe does the following creative cafe projects: 

• provides a space where creative practitioners may interact with their audiences and network with each other.
• hosts book launches
• hosts musical evenings
• hosts plays
• hosts craft groups 
• holds art exhibitions

The Nexus Art Cafe