Mark Cantrell's Blog

Whitby hosts its very first literary festival later this year

Welcome to the world-sprawling city of Terapolis

Social reading has met social housing, with the latter offering a Liverpool charity funding support to pursue its goal of furthering culture and well-being through a love of words

Scientists planning a trip to the International Space Station turned to children to design the mission patch

Teenager Kyle Brooks has published a book of poems to chronicle his life with juvenile arthritis

A major exhibition at Manchester's John Rylands Library charts the extraordinary contribution LGBTQ+ artists have made to popular culture

Submissions are open from an anthology of fiction, essays and poetry that's unafraid to speak out against today's authoritarian turn

An array of specialised radio telescopes helped reveal the hidden appetites of one of nature's most enigmatic and fearsome forces

A swimming challenge in Scotland led by former Olympian athlete Dan Wallace is raising funds for a disability charity's life-changing hydrotherapy pool

There's no clear cut way of restoring woodlands and their biodiversity, according to a Manchester academic; a more nuanced approach to nature is needed