Articles tagged with 'centre-for-new-writing' | University of Manchester

BAFTA-nominated poet and writer Lemn Sissay - our former Chancellor who holds an honorary chair of creative writing at our University - will be one of three judges considering entries.How to enterEntries will need to combine a vast and thought-provok...

Martin Amis, former Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing has died at the age of 73.Martin Amis, who has just died in Florida, worked as our first Professor of Creative Writing at The University of Manchester's Centre for New Wr...

7-11 June 2023 sees the return of Manchester UNESCO City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries.Following the success of the past two years of celebrations, the 2023 festival showcases a vibrant programme of events in libraries across all ten boroughs...

Budding writers have been challenged to craft a Twitter micropoem on the theme of the ‘science around us’ by Creative Manchester, which has launched its annual Micropoetry Competition to mark World Poetry Day....

In 2017 Manchester was successful in its bid to join UNESCO’s worldwide Creative Cities network as a City of Literature, which recognised the significant contribution of literature to the city. As one of its key creative institutions which includes t...

The Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester is welcoming its 2023 Burgess Fellows, Dr Adelle Stripe and Joe Carrick-Varty.The Fellowships introduce two new, published writers to each year’s new Creative Writing MA cohort at the Centre,...

A Centre for New Writing graduate has won the coveted PFD Prize for the most promising dissertation from the 2021-22 MA Creative Writing cohort.Osman Mohamed was awarded the prize at the most recent MA Anthology launch, a collection of written works ...

Every year, in a tradition established by Charles Dickens, the Centre for New Writing’s Professor of New Writing and world-renowned author, Jeanette Winterson, has written a new tale during the festive period, twelve of which were published in her Ch...

A new anthology of stories written by Manchester students is to be published later this month, celebrating the wealth of literary talent produced by The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing....

Saba Sams, a Centre for New Writing Alumna, has scooped the BBC National Short Story Award for a story taken from her debut collection Send Nudes.The wordsmith has taken home a £15,000 prize for Blue 4 eva which frames ‘complex family dynamics’ in a ...

Manchester alumnus David Hartley has been named by Estonian city Tartu as ‘Writer in Residence’ for their time as European Capital of Culture in 2024, and will produce work in celebration of the occasion....

Centre for New Writing PhD candidate Charlotte Wetton has had a collection of surreal poetry acquired by The Emma Press, an independent publishing house based in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.Charlotte’s Accessioning examines what it is we consider ...

At first I wasn't sure I was the right person to act as a mentor for the schools poetry competition. After all I was – I am – primarily a fiction writer. But I write plenty of poetry, and had certainly studied it for long enough. As Dr Luke Brown sai...

Manchester Literature Festival, the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester are partnering again for this October’s exciting Literature Live event, bringing some of the most extraordinary contemporary writers to Manchester to discuss their lat...

The theme for this year’s Micropoetry Competition of ‘Climate Change’ could not have been more fitting for the judges’ deliberations, which took place on the hottest day on record for the UK (19 July 2022).Despite the sweltering temperatures, an este...

SALC recently sat down with Sabine Sharp, a former PhD student and organiser of the annual Sexuality Summer School. We asked them to reflect on the recent Trans Healthcare series, why it was important at this time, and whether there will be more even...

On 17th June 2022, the School of Arts, Languages and Culture, in collaboration with the Manchester Opera Project, presented an evening of music at Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester.This concert featured the premiere of Erysichthon’s Forest, a melodrama ba...

15-19 June 2022 saw the return of Manchester UNESCO City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries. Following the success of last year’s inaugural celebration, the 2022 festival showcased a vibrant and varied programme of 80 events in libraries across al...

An alumna of the Centre for New Writing has been named a Finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award for New Fiction. Morag Edwards (nee Gornall) graduated from the Centre in 2006 and her self-published novel Broken was one of 10 works to be nam...

Joe Carrick-Varty, an alumnus of the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester, has scooped the Eric Gregory Award recognising a collection of poetry from a poet aged 30 or below.  The prize was presented to Carrick-Varty and six other E...

The University of Manchester Community Festival (25 June 2022)  is a rare opportunity for the entire organisation to share, celebrate and have fun with each other and the general public, and the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures is throwing some...

Poetry is the prevailing theme of The University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures outing to the Manchester Histories Festival Celebration Day on 12 June 2022. Taking place at Gorton Monastery, the School will fly the flag for po...

The Centre for New Writing is delighted to be taking part in this year’s Manchester UNESCO City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries, which takes place 15-19 June 2022.In partnership with Creative Manchester, the Centre for New Writing is facilitati...

This year’s Sexuality Summer School (SSS) at the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture will focus on ‘The Desire for Identity’ as a central theme. The SSS is an annual five-day series of workshops and seminars for postgraduates engaged in the...

Following the success of last year’s inaugural celebration, the 2022 festival showcases a vibrant programme of 80 events in libraries across all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester.Creative Manchester – the University’s creativity-championing research...

Tanya Seghatchian could be taking home a coveted statuette for Best Picture at the 2022 Academy Awards, bringing Oscar gold tantalisingly close to the unique MA Screenwriting course she co-established at The University of Manchester. Seghatchian is o...

Creative Manchester has chosen World Poetry Day (21 March 2022) to announce the 2022 edition of its Micropoetry Competition in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and The Great Science Share for Schools. Launched by University of Manchester C...

The Practical Publishing Seminar series is practitioner-led and explores the processes of commissioning, editing and marketing, along with design, production and formats. All seminars were hosted by Professor John McAuliffe, Professor of Poetry and D...

Congratulations to alumna Saba Sams whose debut short story collection Send Nudes has been published by Bloomsbury.Since graduating in 2017, Saba has been shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize 2019 and her stories have appeared in magazi...

Every year, the Centre for New Writing welcomes two Writers in Residence to be part of the programme for the spring term. Since 2017, in partnership with The International Anthony Burgess Foundation and the Manchester Museum, these visiting writer fe...