In May this year, Manchester Literature Festival teamed up with the Hamilton Project and Bury Text Festival on Station Stories - a unique site-specific live literature promenade event using digital technology and live improvised electronic sound. From platform to platform, café to café and shop to shop, six writers (Jenn Ashworth, Tom Fletcher, David Gaffney, Tom Jenks, Nicholas Royle and Peter Wild) took audiences on a creative trip of Piccadilly Station and read specially commissioned stories inspired by the station and the people who use it and work there.

Audiences were linked to the writers' microphones by headsets using wireless technology, ensuring they heard every single word, while still experiencing the live ambience of the location. Audiences were taken on a journey into this marginal, in-between world, where anything can happen and often does.

You can read blog reviews of Station Stories by Sarah-Clare Conlon and Nija Dalal