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    Celebrating Young Writers’ Talent

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    The Portico Young Writers’ Competition: A celebration of writing talent in the North West. Although you’ve probably passed it a dozen times without realising it’s there, the Portico library has sat on Mosley Street in Manchester for over two hundred years. And this week, something quite special was happening there. For the past four years…

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    Manchester: United

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    People’s Assembly Meeting, Central Hall, Oldham Street, 21st May. Over 700 people last night crammed into Manchester’s Central Hall on Oldham Street to hear Owen Jones, Mark Steel and a host of others speak out against the coalition government’s crippling austerity measures and call for unifying action in opposing them. Numerous campaigns, trade unions and…

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    The Farce of ‘The Book Of Mormon’

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    Words by Fin Murphy  3 out of 10 Over the years it was in the making; The Book Of Mormon simmered with attention as the brainchild of Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Religion, warlords and imperialism examined by two of the most irreverent voices in pop culture through the flamboyance of musicals; a promising blend…

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    Competition Double Whammy!

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    Do you have a tale to tell? The Manchester Writing Competition is back and this year it’s bigger than ever with, for the first time, both Fiction and Poetry Prizes running together, and offering a £10,000first prize for the best work in each category. Every one of us has our own story to tell –…

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    May There Be Another One

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    MMU Creative Writing alumnus and acclaimed author, Stephen May, discusses his latest novel, Life! Death! Prizes! with Humanity Hallows. Words by Neil Harrison. Tragedy is useful. Tragedy sells. Hand-wringing politicians, casually fascinated daytime T.V. viewers and shit-stirring rags all regularly suckle at tragedy’s teat. Stephen May’s second novel, Life! Death! Prizes!, derives its title from…

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