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Revising My Childhood in Light of Rolf Harris’s Guilt

7th July 2014 By aAh! 0 235

The most recent revelation within Operation Yewtree is the news of Rolf Harris and his conviction of performing a series of sex attacks on young women and children in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Now, I don’t know about you, but for me, I actually feel as if a small part of my childhood has been…
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Notes into Letters – Writers Find Inspiration Visiting The Hallé at The Bridgewater Hall

30th June 2014 By aAh! 0 606

The Hallé. Photo courtesy of Russell Hart and The Hallé. Students from the MMU’s Creative Writing MA have been adding scribbling sounds to the music of The Hallé at The Bridgewater Hall. In an exciting collaboration between the Manchester Writing School and The Royal Philharmonic Society, myself and nine other master’s degree students were invited to hear the…
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Nicholas Royle Discusses Writing Short Stories ahead of the Manchester Fiction Prize

28th June 2014 By aAh! 0 944

With a whopping £10,000 for the winner, The Manchester Fiction Prize is a short story writer’s dream come true. I ask the chair of the judging panel Nicholas Royle what he loves about the short story and what winning or being short listed can do for a writer’s career. In terms of prose writing, short…
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Adam O’Riordan Shares his thoughts on Poetry and the Manchester Poetry Prize

27th June 2014 By aAh! 0 1275

By Justine Chamberlain With its £10,000 jackpot, The Manchester Poetry Prize is one that all poets set their sights on, both new and experienced. I ask judge, Adam O’Riordan, about where poetry is in 2014 and what winning a competition like this can do for a poet. People keep questioning whether poetry is dead, is it? Or…
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That Sinking Feeling: England Fails to Rise to the Occasion Again

27th June 2014 By aAh! 0 163

By Matthew Bostock Isn’t football a funny old game? If you haven’t noticed already, England have already been knocked out at the first stage of the World Cup 2014. The strange and slightly bemusing thing for most England fans is that the majority believe that England have actually performed better this year than four years…

Revising My Childhood in Light of Rolf Harris’s Guilt

Notes into Letters – Writers Find Inspiration Visiting The Hallé at The Bridgewater Hall

Nicholas Royle Discusses Writing Short Stories ahead of the Manchester Fiction Prize

Adam O’Riordan Shares his thoughts on Poetry and the Manchester Poetry Prize

That Sinking Feeling: England Fails to Rise to the Occasion Again

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