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Events at Altogether Otherwise

  1. A Writing Workshop with Glen James Brown, Wednesday 25th June, 6-8pm, Altogether Otherwise

    Scraps: Building Characters and Stories from the Seemingly Inconsequential Find the extraordinary in the ordinary. Join our creative writing worksh...
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  2. Writing Intimacies: A Workshop with Caroline Magennis. Wednesday 16th July, 6-8pm, Altogether Otherwise

    This event will feature a short reading, group discussion and a writing workshop focused on the theme of intimacy in fiction, life-writing and hybr...
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Jot at Altogether Otherwise:

Every Wednesdays 11-6

Every 2nd Saturday 11-5

6 - 10 Hanover Street, NOMA, M4 4BB

Jot Journal

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  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...
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  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...
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  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....
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  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...
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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.

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