Call for online submissions: Creative Writing and Featured Artwork – Hometown
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“I didn’t know I was writing a novel at first”: Nikolai Duffy’s on his debut into the world of prose
Featured image: Nikolai Duffy Sitting with poet and author Nikolai Duffy at the Manchester Poetry Library, he…
“Celebrating the vibrant creative lives being built in the North”: Comma Press and Manchester Writing School present the 2025 National Creative Writing Industry Day
Author Claire Daverley set the tone for this year's National Creative Writing Industry Day (NCWID) on Saturday, with a keynote exploring resilience, creativity and the passion that drives writers to keep going. The eleventh edition of the event took place at Manchester Metropolitan University and is the largest gathering of its kind in the North.
“In just over a week my business has grown so much”: Student illustrator Abigail Conner on meeting Jamie Laing at Future Me Week
Featured image: Jamie Laing / Abigail Conner Abigail Conner is a second-year Fine Art student at Manchester…
Manchester Met writer Kane Benjamin Crookes releases his first poetry book ‘Blooming Us’
Featured image: Lowri Simmons Manchester Met final year English Literature student, Kane Crookes, has made his debut…
Creative Writing: Ballet Season By Lowri Simmons
By Lowri Simmons. Featured image: Pexels Ballet Season Has Commenced; exploring how creativity speaks to us all…
Earth Prayers with Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson @ HOME review – The sublime, apathy and wind instruments
Featured image: aAh! | Featured Illustrations: Meghan Millar As part of the annual Manchester Literature Festival, HOME…
Manchester Writing School: Writers to look out for
Featured image: Design: Bradley Sansom. Photography: Susie Wilson, Monique Roffey, Carson Wolfe The Manchester Writing School is…
QuietManDave Prize judge Michael Pinchbeck: “For this prize, the object is to pack a tighter snowball.”
Photography: Brian Slater The QuietManDave Prize, honouring theatre critic and writer Dave Murray, is now open for…
“It’s wonderful to have a competition which recognises and honours flash fiction”: Former QuietManDave Prize winner Kathryn Aldridge-Morris
Featured image: Kathryn Aldridge-Morris The QuietManDave Prize, honouring theatre critic and writer Dave Murray, is now open…
QuietManDave Prize judge Catherine Love-Smith: “Be brave and give it a go”
The QuietManDave Prize celebrates short-form writing and the life of someone who loved to experience new places,…
The 2024 QuietManDave Prize opens for entries – celebrating short-form writing
The QuietManDave Prize celebrates short-form writing and the life of someone who loved to experience new places,…
Graduate Stories: Manchester Cathedral Writer in Residence Tom Branfoot talks about his poetically charged career after leaving university
Featured image: Tom Branfoot Our new Graduate Stories series uncovers the diverse experiences of Manchester Met alumni,…
Graduate Stories: Simon Rennie on creating a new sub-genre of poetry – “It changed the way I saw the world”
Featured image: Simon Rennie Our new Graduate Stories series uncovers the diverse experiences of Manchester Met alumni,…
The Performers’ Playground: “A place of risk, daring and pleasure”
Featured image: Rebecca Lupton Alice Robinson and Mark Winstanley are a pair of actors, teachers and directors…