News from Centre for New Writing students and alumni, January 2018

Congratulations to Centre for New Writing PhD graduate Alicia Rouverol who has just taken up her role as Writer in Residence at Manchester's Xaverian College.

She will be representing the Centre and The University of Manchester, and following in the footsteps of previous Writer in Residence Mariah Whelan, also a CNW alumna.

Graduate Natalie Rees was the second place winner in the 2017 Flambard Prize. The prize is awarded to the best group of up to five poems by a poet who has not yet published a collection or pamphlet.

Judge Rebecca Goss praised Natalie's poems, saying: "Her hugely imaginative poems burst with engaging detail and tender observation," while Ellen Phethean added: “They moved and intrigued us and left a sense of mystery, of more to be discovered."