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

London launch of the 2017 Manchester Anthology.We’re delighted to see that the London launch of the 2017 Manchester Anthology was a success. The event took place on Wednesday 18 April at The Poetry Society and was arranged by last year’s Anthology team, now graduates of the Centre for New Writing.

Congratulations to MA student Jan Cabral-Jackson as she has reached the final of the 2018 Pulp Idol Novel-Writing competition with the first chapter of her historical novel.

Pulp Idol is a national writing competition for novelists which has been very successful in getting new novelists published by mainstream and independent publishers such as Hodder and Stoughton and Bluemoose Books. Jan is one of 12 finalists competing to be crowned the Pulp Idol winner at an event on Tuesday 29 May.

Valerie O'Riordan, who completed her MA at the Centre in 2010 and her PhD in 2016, has had a chapter included in a recent Routledge publication Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle. She was also shortlisted for the Cúirt New Writing Prize and has a story featured in Unthology 10.

The countdown is on for MA and PhD graduate Holly Ringland as the UK publication date of her debut novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is on Thursday 28 June. The novel, published by Pan Macmillan, was described by GoodReads as 'the most enchanting debut novel of 2018'.

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