Jot at Altogether Otherwise:

Throughout January and February

Wednesdays 11-6

Saturdays 11-5

Altogether Otherwise, NOMA

  1. Extended Family Poetry Pop-In: Saturday 25th January, 11-2

    Drop-in cut-up poetry fun for all reading ages. Writing poetry with glue sticks and craft scissors.
  2. Writing Workshop with Tom Conaghan from Scratch Books, Tuesday 4th Feb, 6-8

     Finding Inspiration, a writing workshop with Tom Conaghan (Scratch Books) Tuesday 4th February, 6-8pm Where and how do we find inspiration when we...
  3. Author Event with Glen James Brown: Saturday 8th of February, 2-3pm

    Meet acclaimed Manchester based author Glen James Brown, who will be reading from his latest book, Mother Naked (Peninsula 2024), as well as be in ...

Jot Journal

  1. Jot Newsletter #1 October 24

    Earlier this year, I picked up a book in The Whitworth Shop, with the instantly soothing title of ‘A Simpler Life’. Glancing over its table of cont...
  2. Reading by Series: Wind, Water, Women

    Laura Mansfield   wind I like to read in series. I often get stuck more or less unwittingly on a particular theme or type of writing before notic...
  3. Profundity Interrupted: giving poetry one more chance with Ben Lerner's The Lights, Granta Poetry, 2023

    Swen Steinhäuser   I am reading Ben Lerner’s The Lights (Granta Poetry, 2023). Poetry isn’t usually my thing. Or at least it wasn’t until recently....
  4. Funny and at the same time sad: reading Natalia Ginzburg

    Swen Steinhäuser I have been reading three books by the Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991). Ginzburg was already on my radar when I came a...

About Jot

We launched jot bookshop & journal to lovingly assemble and sell shifting collections of books through our online shop and at various pop-up locations in central and south Manchester.

Beyond a shop, jot facilitates and fosters the coming together of a community of readers and writers in our locality and beyond.