Friends of First Draft

At First Draft, we’ve been lucky enough to have had great support from all sorts of other artists and collectives in Manchester and beyond. If you’re interested in the sort of thing we do, here are some other events and collectives you might like to know about…

• 24:7 Theatre Festival – the heart of new theatre
• 330 words – send your stories
• Action Transport Theatre – new writing, young people’s theatre company
• Bad Language – promoting new writing in Manchester
• Chorlton Arts Festival
• Colour the Clouds – theatre of empowerment
• Comma Press – Manchester’s publishing initiative promoting new writing
• Cuckoo Young Writers
• Didsbury Arts Festival
• Effed Up Nights
• The End of All Things – a podcast about writing in Manchester
• Evidently – poetry to the masses
• Faro Productions – Manchester-based theatre and film company
• Flashtag
• Flim Nite – retelling films through literature, music, comedy etc.
• iOrganic – using performance to provoke curiosity
• Manchester Fringe Theatre Network
• Manchester Literature Festival
• Mighty Heart Theatre Company
• New Writing North – events and resources
• Post Box Poets
• The Quiet Compere – poetry events in the North West
• Raw (Rhythm & Words) – spoken word events at Contact Theatre
• The Real Story – creative nonfiction in Manchester and beyond
• Sleepy House Press – submit your writing and check out their workshops
• Speak Easy at The Sip Club – live literature in Stretford
• Stirred Poetry
• Studio Salford – theatre in Salford
• Tales of Whatever – true stories told live from Manchester
• Tapes and Tales – stories for headphones
• Transdimensional Space Goats – poetry events in Manchester
• Verbose – a new monthly spoken word night based in Fallowfield
• The Writing Squad – developing writers aged 16-21
• Young Identity – Manchester-based collective of young spoken word artists, musicians, actors, and rappers/MCs

Are you making work or hosting events that you think our readers will be interested in? Get in touch and we’ll add you to the list!