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17
November
2023
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14:48
Europe/London
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the event with Alice Oswald has been cancelled. Jodrell Bank will be in touch with those who have made bookings in due course. We expect to bring you an Evening with Alice Oswald again in 2024. The ‘Solstice and Equin...
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03
November
2023
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11:47
Europe/London
Inspired by visits to the Kielder Observatory in Northumberland, Black Fell is a game-for-music, a story in song where a psychological landscape of memory, grief and scientific passion unfolds. The story explores the thoughts of a central female char...
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17
October
2023
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15:54
Europe/London
Writer Jason Allen-Paisant has won the Best Collection award 2023 at the Forward Prize for Poetry.The University of Manchester Senior Lecturer’s ‘Self-Portrait as Othello’ is a dazzling poetic memoir, which imaginatively places the figure of Othello ...
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06
October
2023
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12:43
Europe/London
Published in April 2023, Gareth’s Never Was: A Novel Without a World has made this year’s six-book shortlist from 107 entries. Director for Creative Manchester’s Professor John McAuliffe wrote:...
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03
October
2023
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17:39
Europe/London
University of Manchester Senior Lecturer and writer Jason Allen-Paisant is celebrating another shortlisting today for his second collection of poems, Self-Portrait as Othello.Self-Portrait as Othello is a dazzling poetic memoir, which imaginatively p...
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01
September
2023
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15:30
Europe/London
Manchester Literature Festival (MLF) 2023 will take place 7-22 October, featuring a programme of exciting events marking the city’s contribution to literature.The University of Manchester is proud to be the Festival’s official Higher Education Partne...
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15
August
2023
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11:51
Europe/London
The Manchester City of Literature Schools Writing Trail took place 1-15 June 2023 in six Manchester City Centre venues - including The University of Manchester campus in the Samuel Alexander Building’s glass corridor exhibition space.The trail – over...
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28
July
2023
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11:00
Europe/London
A panel of judges including former University Chancellor and poet Lemn Sissay, Creative Manchester Director and Professor of Poetry John McAuliffe and Manchester-based poet and critic Maryam Hessavi, gathered to judge this year’s Micropoetry Competit...
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20
June
2023
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16:17
Europe/London
Now in its seventh year, the competition is aimed at pupils from Greater Manchester schools, encouraging children to use poetry as a means of self-expression. The Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester’s 2023 Schools Poetry competition took p...
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16
June
2023
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12:59
Europe/London
7-11 June saw the return of Manchester UNESCO City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries, taking place across the whole of Greater Manchester to celebrate the role that libraries play in wellbeing, culture, creativity and more.Creative Manchester – t...
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01
June
2023
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13:52
Europe/London
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...
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22
May
2023
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12:28
Europe/London
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...
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09
May
2023
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14:11
Europe/London
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...
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21
March
2023
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10:00
Europe/London
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....
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20
February
2023
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09:00
Europe/London
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...
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24
January
2023
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17:05
Europe/London
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,...
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18
January
2023
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16:40
Europe/London
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 ...
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2022
05
December
2022
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10:52
Europe/London
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...
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01
November
2022
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16:04
Europe/London
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....
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19
October
2022
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16:03
Europe/London
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 ...
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21
September
2022
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09:00
Europe/London
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....
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08
September
2022
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15:20
Europe/London
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 ...
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08
September
2022
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11:56
Europe/London
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...
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24
August
2022
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15:38
Europe/London
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...
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01
August
2022
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13:29
Europe/London
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...
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18
July
2022
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11:27
Europe/London
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...
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18
July
2022
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11:08
Europe/London
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...
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29
June
2022
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15:42
Europe/London
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...
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20
June
2022
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15:46
Europe/London
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...
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14
June
2022
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11:27
Europe/London
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...
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