PLACE 2020 is the project that launched the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. The work here explores, via a dynamic mix of new writing (poetry, essay, commentary, reflection and story), films, photography and podcasts, how ideas of ‘place’ shifted radically across the globe in 2020, as billions of people went into lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Centre invited some of the most acclaimed, distinctive and emergent thinkers, writers, artists and film-makers in place writing and related creative fields to respond to these ideas.