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. You can tell us your own story too.

LATEST NEWS: Rainy City Stories and Creative Tourist are pleased to unveil the Manchester winner of this summer’s short story competition, Rain Never Stops Play: Lydia Unsworth’s The City Is Leaving Me.