News from Centre for New Writing students, staff and alumni, April 2018

Lucy Wilkinson Yates (MA 2017) has had a short story selected by editor (and CNW alumna) Jenn Ashworth for inclusion in a new anthology by Bluemoose Books entitled 'Seaside Special: Postcards from the Edge'.

Lucy will also read at the launch of the Seaside Special anthology at Blackpool Central Library on 16 May 2018, as part of Wordpool Festival.

Centre for New Writing senior lecturer Vona Groarke has had a poem featured in the New York Review of Books: On the Deployment of Simile to Understand Good Marriages.

Even more excitingly, Vona has been awarded a 2018-2019 Cullman Center Fellowship at the New York Public Library. This international fellowship programme allows access to the collections at the Stephan A. Schwarzman Building and the opportunity to work on individual projects as well as engage in an ongoing exchange of ideas within the Center and through public forums at the library.

Current PhD student Mariah Whelan was highly commended for her poem Viaduct by the Poetry Books Society Student Poetry Prize.

Congratulations to Holly Ringland for the UK publication date of her debut novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart which will be released Thursday, 28 June by Pan Macmillan. Holly took a Master's and PhD in Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing and her novel was described by GoodReads as "the most enchanting debut novel of 2018."

Image: 'Seaside Special: Postcards from the Edge' photograph by Dawn Mander @dmanderphoto.