Manchester Blog Awards: 16 October

• Robin Hamman
• 9 Oct 06, 04:41 PM

The awards ceremony for the first ever Manchester Blog Awards will take place at Urbis next Monday (16 October) starting at 7pm.

The selection process, we're told, was difficult but there's now a shortlist of blogs vying for awards in each of the four categories: political, personal, arts and culture, and blog of the year.

The BBC Manchester Blog team will be there to cover the event for the BBC Manchester website and to record interviews for both BBC Radio Manchester and BBC 5 Live's Pods and Blogs.

More importantly, we're hoping to meet with people who are already creating, or want to create, great web content so we can discuss how we might be able to work together. To encourage you to walk over and introduce yourself, we'll be bringing a limited number of BBC t-shirts to hand out at the event. Do come say hello!

The event, organised by Manchizzle as part of the Manchester Literature Festival, is free, open to all and will be followed by drinks (the only thing you have to pay for) and live entertainment from Verberate. Andrew Wilshere at Newfred Rebooted created the blog awards logo above.