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Join the UK's biggest & most successful postgraduate literary community. BA, MFA, PhD courses. Events & £10K prizes. Directed by Carol Ann Duffy @ManMetUni .

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@McrWritingSchl
Manchester Writing School
@McrWritingSchl
3 years
Our 2021 international Manchester Writing Competition is open to entries until 28 January. £10,000 prizes for poetry and short fiction. Find out more, read previous winners and submit your poems and stories at:
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Writers! Enter the £10,000 @McrWritingSchl Poetry and Fiction Prizes for new and unpublished work. Open internationally. Deadline 1 September. Judges chaired by @Malikabooker and #LaraWilliams 💻 📚 ➡️
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Writers! Our international Manchester Poetry and Fiction Prizes are now open to entries Deadline: 28 January. First prize: £10,000. Find out more and submit your poems and short stories at:
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Poet Helen Mort named Royal Society of Literature Fellow - she becomes the third Manchester Metropolitan University writer to be awarded the prestigious honour
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WRITE Where We Are NOW: Carol Ann Duffy and @ManMetUni lead British poets creating ‘living record’ of coronavirus. Major names including Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay and Ian and Andrew McMillan to document outbreak in verse. #WWWAN
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Carol Ann Duffy leads British poets creating 'living record' of coronavirus

Major names including Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay and father-and-son poets Ian and Andrew McMillan to document outbreak in verse

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£10,000 Manchester Writing Competition returns with outstanding international shortlist. UK’s biggest prize for unpublished writing was established by Professor Carol Ann Duffy. Meet the finalists:
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🏆📚🥰 Manchester Writing Competition winners revealed as Peter Ramm and Leone Ross. Read the news story here ➡️
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NEWS: Becky Swain joins Manchester Metropolitan University as Director of the Manchester Poetry Library. Becky is currently Head of Learning for the Arvon Foundation, the UK’s national organisation of residential writing centres.
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The 2018 Manchester Writing Competition is open to entries. £10,000 prizes for new poetry and short fiction, open internationally until 14th September.
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Manchester Writing Competition 2020: Shortlist announced for UK’s biggest unpublished writing prize. Fiction Prize and Poetry Prize reward new and emerging writers. Read the news story here: #McrWritingComp
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Guy Garvey joins Manchester Metropolitan University as Visiting Professor of Songwriting: Elbow frontman will lead a masterclass at Manchester Writing School
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“As just 16% of the nation lives in London, it’s only right that just 16% of cultural activities should be based there too - and why nights like tonight are important.” Andrew Mcmillan opens a special Northern preview of the Forward Prize at Manchester Met
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🥇🥈🥉 Winners of inaugural QuietManDave Prize for flash fiction and non-fiction are revealed: Elisabeth Ingram Wallace and David Calder win award that honours much-loved Manchester critic. Read the news item here ➡️ #QMDPrize
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WRITERS! It’s your final week to enter the £10,000 Manchester Writing Competition Poetry and Fiction Prizes. Open internationally to new and unpublished writing. Deadline 28 January. Enter online:
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We’ve bid a fond farewell to our much-loved home at Number 70 today but have also previewed our new base for teaching, staff offices and @McrPoetryLib at @ManMetUni ’s amazing new Arts & Humanities Building. We look forward to welcoming you when we can!
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QuietManDave Prize 2020 longlist announced. Prize celebrates new and emerging short-form writers and honours much-loved Manchester critic. #QMDPrize 🏆📝➡️
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Writers! Enter the £10,000 @McrWritingSchl Poetry and Fiction Prizes for new and unpublished work. Open internationally. Deadline 1 September. Reduced price entry available. Judges chaired by @Malikabooker and @oriordanadam . 💻 📚 ➡️
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⏩✍🏼⏩ There are just two weeks left to enter the 2020 Manchester Writing Competition. £10,000 prizes for new poetry and short fiction. Open internationally. Find out more and enter at #writing #poetry #fiction #shortstory #writingcomp #writingcommmunity
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“A poem only seeks to add to the world and now seems the time to give.” Carol Ann Duffy and @ManMetUni launch WRITE where we are NOW - an international poetry project inviting writers to reflect on the Coronavirus pandemic and life in lockdown. #WWWAN
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The 2020 QuietManDave Prize is open to entries. Send us your flash fiction stories and flash non-fiction reviews, blog posts, micro-essays and memoir and you could win £1,000. We are keen to encourage and hear from new writers and free entry is available.
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🚨✍🏼🏆 Manchester Writing Competition shortlists announced: international shortlists have been revealed for the Manchester Fiction and Poetry Prizes, which make up the UK’s biggest awards for unpublished writing. Meet the finalists: #McrWritingComp
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The 2020 Manchester Writing Competition is open until 18th September - and we still have reduced price entries available until 31st July. Find out how to request one here:
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New short-form writing prize honours much-loved Manchester critic. QuietManDave Prize will encourage, discover and celebrate emerging talent.
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Our #CarolAnnDuffy writing a poem from Manchester for a special international @UNESCO anthology project
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Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch named Costa Book of the Year: Writing School lecturer scoops leading prize in British literature. @CostaBookAwards
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Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch wins Costa Novel Award. Manchester Writing School lecturer scoops one of UK's top literary prizes. Read the news item here:
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2017 Manchester Writing Competition winners announced at gala ceremony: Sakinah Hofler has been awarded the £10,000 Manchester Fiction Prize while the Poetry judges awarded £5,000 each to joint-winners Romalyn Ante and Laura Webb.
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QuietManDave Prize 2022 longlist revealed. Prize celebrates emerging short-form writers and honours much-loved Manchester critic. Read the news story here:
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JOB ALERT: We're looking to recruit a Director for the Manchester Poetry Library - to provide strategic leadership and management and optimise its potential within the culture sector. Deadline 11th April.
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The 2022 QuietManDave Prize is open to entries! £1,000 prizes for flash fiction and flash non-fiction. Sponsored entry available. Find out more, read previous winners and enter here:
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Congratulations to @ManMetUni Senior Lecturer in English @DrDavidCooper who has been elected to the Board of Directors/Trustees @ThePortico . David has worked closely with the Library on the Portico Prize and 'Rewriting the North' event series and podcasts.
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2017 Manchester Writing Comp judges revealed: Bonnie Greer, Angela Readman, Mona Arshi & Pascale Petit join panel:
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Here are some of the books by Manchester Writing School students, alumni and staff, taking pride of place in their new display in the cafe at Number 70 Oxford Street 📝🎓📚 #ManMetProud
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FREE ONLINE EVENT: The Short Story. Join two of the Manchester Writing School’s finest, Nicholas Royle and Lara Williams, to discuss their latest work in the short story genre. Thursday 3rd December 2020, 7-8pm.
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ONLINE EVENT: The Short Story. Join Nicholas Royle and Lara Williams to discuss their latest work in the #shortstory genre, and question them about what makes the form so dynamic and so unique. Thursday 3rd December 7-8pm. FREE. Book your tickets at:
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Award-winning #poet joins @McrWritingSchl - @HelenMort to teach #writing @ManMetUni
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The power of words: a city of #poetry . Manchester’s first ever specialist Poetry Library will open at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2020, building on a rich and historic tradition in the city.
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Poet Malika Booker joins Manchester Writing School: the inaugural Poet-in-Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company will support early career writers.
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Just over a week left to enter the 2020 Manchester Fiction Prize. £10,000 first prize for a short story of up to 2,500 words. Open internationally. Judges: @Tim_Etchells @IrenosenOkojie and @nicholasroyle Enter now at: #writing #writingcomp #shortstory
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📚🏆 Meet #McrWritingComp Poetry Prize finalist @courtneyconrad_ - Jamaican poet and alumna of The London Library Emerging Writers Programme, Malika's Poetry Kitchen, Barbican Young Poets and Obsidian Foundation. Read her full bio and poems here:
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🏆 Winners of QuietManDave Prize 2022 for flash fiction and non-fiction are revealed. Kathryn Aldridge-Morris and Sara Hills win award honouring much-loved Manchester critic. Read the news story here: 🏆
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We are delighted to announce @ManMetUni ’s partnership with the @ThePortico to relaunch the #PorticoPrize - “The Booker of the North”. £10,000 will go to the book that best evokes the spirit of the North of England - across fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
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The winner of the £10,000 Manchester Fiction Prize is Gabriel Monteros! Congratulations Gabriel! #ManchesterWritingCompetition
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Congratulations to @ManMetUni Lecturer in Creative Writing @Malikabooker - shortlisted for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem with ‘The Little Miracle’. Find out more at:
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We'll be announcing the winners of this year's £10,000 international Manchester Poetry and Fiction Prizes on Friday night. Read the short-listed poems and stories online and see if you can pick a winner!
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Playwright @StephensSimon joins @ManMetUni - Tony Award winning writer is our new Professor of Scriptwriting:
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Manchester City of Literature is seeking four artists – three writers, one illustrator – to take part in residencies for the inaugural Festival of Libraries this June. @ManMetUni @McrPoetryLib @MCBFestival @MCRCityofLit @MMULibrary @MancLibraries
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Paid Library Residencies for Writers and an Illustrator - Manchester City of Literature

Manchester City of Literature is seeking four artists – three writers, one illustrator – to take part in residencies for the inaugural Festival of Libraries, happening between 9th and 13th June this...

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QuietManDave Prize shortlist revealed. New and emerging short-form writers are celebrated in prize that honours much-loved Manchester critic. Read the pieces and meet the finalists! ➡️➡️➡️ #QMDPrizeman
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🏆📚🏆 Tonight’s the night! Join us @ManMetUni from 7pm for the announcement of the £10,000 Manchester Writing Competition winners. Book your free tickets here: and read the short lists here:
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The 2020 QuietManDave Prize is open to entries. Send us your flash fiction stories and flash non-fiction reviews, blog posts, micro-essays and memoir - and you could win £1,000. We are particularly keen to encourage and hear from new writers.
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The 2018 Manchester Writing Competition is open to entries! £10,000 prizes for Poetry & Fiction - celebrating Manchester as an international city of writers, finding diverse new voices, and creating opportunities for writer development. Deadline 14th Sept
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Three Manchester Metropolitan University writers have made the longlist for the Jhalak Prize 2021, an annual literary prize that supports and celebrates writers of colour in Britain. Congratulations Jennifer, Alex and Danielle! Read the news item here:
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Congratulations to Manchester Metropolitan University Professor of Creative Writing Jean Sprackland, whose creative non-fiction book "These Silent Mansions" has been shortlisted for the English PEN Ackerley Prize 2021. News item ➡️
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There’s just over three weeks left to enter our Manchester Writing Competition. Send us your poems and stories and please spread the word! ✍🏼 💻 🏆
@McrWritingSchl
Manchester Writing School
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Our 2021 international Manchester Writing Competition is open to entries until 28 January. £10,000 prizes for poetry and short fiction. Find out more, read previous winners and submit your poems and stories at:
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"Manchester Writes”. As part of the Pan African Congress 75th Anniversary celebrations writers from across the city will address themes of home, race, postcoloniality and citizenship. Featuring our @anjummalik and @Malikabooker . 17 Oct 3pm. FREE. ➡️➡️➡️
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Huge congratulations to Manchester Writing School alumna Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi who has been awarded a $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize in Fiction, administered by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
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Manchester Writing Competition 2020 winners revealed as James Pollock and Ian Dudley. Manchester Poetry Prize and Fiction Prize comprise UK’s biggest unpublished writing award. Congratulations James and Ian! 🏆🥳🏆
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Manchester Writing Competition 2023 winners revealed as Tracey Slaughter and April Yee. Manchester Poetry Prize and Fiction Prize awarded to best unpublished writing at a gala evening at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Our 12 Manchester Writing Competition finalists. Read their shortlisted poems and short stories and book your free tickets for Friday night’s gala prize-giving at . Who are your £10,000 winners?
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Diverse international shortlist revealed for Manchester Fiction Prize 2018. The 10,000 winner will be announced in February.
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Congratulations to Michael Walters, a graduate of our MA Creative Writing programme, whose novel "The Complex" is published next month.
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Congratulations to our Lecturer in Creative Writing Dr Catherine Wilcox - AKA the novelist @FictionFox - who has been shortlisted for the 2018 Jerusalem Awards for Christian Broadcasting with ”Reformation Bytes” ( @BBCRadio3 ).
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‘The Clockwork Condition’: Lost sequel to A Clockwork Orange discovered in Anthony Burgess archive. Manchester Metropolitan University Professor Andrew Biswell has unearthed the remarkable unfinished 200-page manuscript.
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Manchester Poetry Library is opening in the summer of 2020. Their first newsletter is being sent out this month. Sign up here to find out about everything from events to job opportunities! #poetry
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We’ve still got some discounted entries to allocate for our 2021 Manchester Writing Competition so will be extending the deadline for applying for one until the end of November. The main deadline for entries is in January. Find out more ➡️
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We’re delighted to announce the return of the National Creative Writing Industry Day with our friends @commapress - this year as week of online activities. Keynote speaker: @IrenosenOkojie . Full schedule and booking coming soon. Save the dates!
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QuietManDave Prize 2022 shortlist revealed. New and emerging short-form writers celebrated in prize honouring much loved Manchester critic. Congratulations to everyone on the list! Read the new story here:
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It was hard hats and hi-vis on yesterday for a preview tour of Manchester Met’s new building, which will house Creative Writing, Theatre, Journalism, Languages and the Manchester Poetry Library. We’re looking forward to welcoming you in 2020! 👷🏽‍♂️👷🏾‍♀️👷🏻‍♂️👷🏽‍♀️
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International shortlist for 2017 #Manchester Writing Competition revealed: winners will take home a £10,000 prize for their literary works.
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Manchester Met Poet Andrew McMillan receives exclusive Royal Society of Literature fellowship. Visiting Fellow Shirley May also recognised as part of national charity’s bicentenary celebrations. Read the news story here:
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TOMORROW: @IrenosenOkojie opens the 2020 National Creative Writing Industry Conference. "I'm looking forward to sharing experiences on navigating the industry and staying curious about the world which connects us to the writing process in rewarding ways"
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Poetry doesn’t need to be meticulously studied. Like a novel, you can curl up on the sofa and read it for pleasure. @AndrewPoetry writes "a beginner’s guide to reading and enjoying poetry" for The Conversation. Curl up and enjoy! @ManMetUni @MCRCityofLit
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A beginner’s guide to reading and enjoying poetry

You don’t have to understand or even like every poem you read.

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Thinking about entering our 2020 Manchester #Writing Competition? Hear from last year's finalists and judges in this highlights video from our gala prize-giving ceremony back in February.
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TONIGHT: The Short Story - with Nicholas Royle and Lara Williams. Join two of the Manchester Writing School’s finest to discuss their latest work in the short story genre. HOST: Andrew McMillan. Thursday 3rd December 7-8pm. FREE. Book your tickets at:
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The 2019 Manchester Writing Competition is open to entries with £10,000 prizes for new poetry and short fiction. Open internationally with reduced price entry available.
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"This debut novel from the award-winning poet is a love letter to Sheffield and the landscape that surrounds it" - The Guardian reviews "Black Car Burning" by Helen Mort, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Met.
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Tonight’s the night! We’ll be awarding our £10,000 Poetry and Fiction prizes and celebrating ten years of the Manchester Writing Competition. Book your FREE gala tickets via the link:
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Today is your last chance to request a reduced price entry for this year’s Manchester Writing Competition. Get in touch if you’d like to enter your poems or short story and need some help with the fee:
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Meet the finalists in the running for this year’s £10,000 #Manchester Poetry and Fiction Prizes – the UK’s biggest awards for unpublished writing.
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Carol Ann Duffy welcomes attendees to a special People’s Poetry Lecture as part of @McrLitFest and checks if they’ve all had their collector’s edition copies of the lecture stamped on the way in.
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Tune into the BBC News Channel from 7pm tonight to see Andrew McMillan talking about Carol Ann Duffy and Manchester Metropolitan’s WRITE Where We Are NOW project, which is collecting poems written in response to Covid19 (log-in required): #WWWAN
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“There is an epidemic of certainty and I am increasingly aware of the importance of not knowing.” Jean Sprackland on engagement with and use of information in her #poetry
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Creative Writing Lecturer wins £10,000 Royal Society of Literature prize: our Andrew Michael Hurley honoured with the Encore Award for his novel, ‘Devil’s Day’
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We’ll be placing poets in libraries around the city and poetry pods made by our students, too, where you can record your own poems for UNESCO Mother Language Day #MCRMushaira - get in touch for an information pack
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Writers: enter the £10,000 Manchester Poetry & Fiction Prizes for new & unpublished work by 29 Sept #MCRWriting
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Tutor Andrew McMillan and winner of our 2017 Poetry Prize Romalyn Ante spoke to BBC News about WRITE Where We Are NOW - a project devised by Carol Ann Duffy to collect poems responding to the Coronavirus pandemic. 🎥 Video: #WWWAN
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Congratulations to our @HelenMort who has won the @Mslexia #poetry competition with "Vanishing Point".
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We’re all set at Manchester’s iconic Principal Hotel for the second in Carol Ann Duffy’s new series The People’s Poetry Lectures, this one featuring Michael Symmons Roberts on W. H. Auden #McrWriting #PeoplesPoetry
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You can read all six stories in the running for the 2018 Manchester Fiction Prize on our website. Which one is your winner? Join us for the gala celebration next Friday night to see who takes the £10,000 prize.
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The 2020 Manchester Writing Competition is open to entries until 5pm UK time tomorrow - Friday 18th September. £10,000 prizes for new poetry and short fiction. Open internationally. See full details, read previous winners and enter online at:
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Professor Carol Ann Duffy awarded Golden Wreath for lifetime achievement in poetry. International literary honour described as “extraordinary gift for which I will be forever grateful”. News story:
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Inspirational Q&A with Isabel Waidner - imposter syndrome is not for new writers to resolve - the industry needs to address it structurally through improved representation and opportunities. Be courageous! Keep going! Stick at it! #NCWID23
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Manchester Met’s Centre for Place Writing & Women Talk Place present 'Thinking Like A Mountain', writing and evoking mountain landscapes. May 24, 7pm: Faye Latham and Helen Mort on erasure #poetry and subverting texts (in-conversation and online workshop).
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Manchester Writing Competition 2023 shortlists announced. Poetry Prize and Fiction Prize make up UK’s biggest award for unpublished writing. Meet the #McrWritingComp finalists ➡️
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The Poetry of #Instagram : how social media is influencing the form & style of #poetry . Hear our @HelenMort & @ManMetUni Creative Writing student Heena Hussain on @BBCRadio4 at 4.30pm or listen later via the link. @mmu_RAH @MCRCityofLit @MMULibrary
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BBC Radio 4 - The Poetry of Instagram

What does the success of Rupi Kaur and the Instagram poets mean for readers and writers?

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Manchester Writing Competition 2018 winners announced at 10th anniversary awards ceremony: ‘Evocative’ short story and poetry with ‘musical clarity’ take home prizes
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£10,000 #Manchester #Poetry Prize for new #writing . Open internationally. Deadline 25/09/15 http://t.co/9O9sNSfhnM http://t.co/walIV7h2QP
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There’s just one week left to enter our £10,000 #Manchester Poetry and Fiction Prizes! Aah! magazine catches up with last year's winners - and talks to this year's all-star judging panel about what they're looking for.
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Four days left to enter our £10,000 Manchester Writing Competition! Catch up with last year's winners here:
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Congratulations to Manchester Met Masters graduate Lucie McKnight Hardy whose novel "Water Shall Refuse Them" is out now. The book began life as Lucie’s MA Portfolio and has been in the running for the Mslexia Novel Competition and Caledonia Novel Award.
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