Welcome to Rainy City Stories

Rainy City Stories is an interactive literary cityscape. Click on a location in our map of Manchester to read a story or poem set there. We’ve published pieces by well-known Manchester authors, as well as people who have just started writing.

LATEST NEWS: We’re getting RUINED. As part of Manchester Histories Festival, eleven writers were asked to write about places in the city that no longer exist. They read their uncanny, surprising and funny stories at a special event at Blackwell’s Books in March, and now we’re adding them to our map. See the sidebar at right for the most recent additions in this series.