The Liverpool Daily Post will run its own online-only literary festival from 15 March.

The LiveRead festival will run from 15-19 March and feature liveblogged chats with authors and live writing workshops with Merseyside writers.

The Post is also tapping into its community of Flickr users by asking them to submit images of reenactments of their favourite literary scenes.

As part of the festival the Post will also use online storytelling tools Xtranormal and Storybird to encourage amateur writers to create their own multimedia stories.