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“I Give You an Onion” - Dr Kim Moore, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, has published an essay on the work of Carol Ann Duffy and Selima Hill in Poetry Magazine, the journal of The Poetry Foundation.

I Give You an Onion: The Poetry of Duffy and Hill… | Poetry Magazine On two UK poets.

A special issue of Scottish Literary Review that Manchester Metropolitan University postgraduate researcher Darryl Peers has been co-editing with Professor Zoe Strachan at the University of Glasgow is out now. It takes its name from Darryl’s PhD, “Queer Form in Scottish Writing” and is available to read online for free: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51852

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Congratulations to Manchester Metropolitan University MA Creative Writing graduate Glyn Edwards, who has won the Wales Book of the Year Nation Cymru’s People’s Choice Award with “In Orbit”, the poetry collection written during his studies.

Wales Book of the Year Awards 2024: The English Language Winners - Literature Wales Winner: Overall Award & Creative Non-fiction Award Sarn Helen, Tom Bullough (Granta Publications) This is the account of Tom Bullough’s journey along Sarn Helen – Helen’s Causeway – the old Roman Road that runs from the south of Wales to the north. As Bullough walks the route, he explores th...

“Hard Drive”, a collection of poetry by Manchester Metropolitan University MA Creative Writing graduate Paul Stephenson has been longlisted for the 2024 Polari Prize for emerging and established LGBTQ+ writers. The book is published by Manchester’s own Carcanet Press. Congratulations, Paul!

https://www.polarisalon.com/copy-of-polari-prize-2024

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Top poetry prize nomination for Manchester Metropolitan University PhD student’s debut collection. Charlotte Shevchenko Knight’s anthology on Ukrainian identity shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2024.

Top poetry prize nomination for PhD student’s debut collection Anthology on Ukrainian identity shortlisted for Forward Prizes for Poetry

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Commemorative medal presented to poet Professor Dame Carol Ann Duffy. Former poet laureate awarded new University honour at graduation ceremony.

Commemorative medal presented to poet Professor Dame Carol Ann Duffy Former poet laureate awarded new University honour at graduation ceremony

Congratulations to our Class of 2024!

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The latest National Student Survey data shows we're in the top 15 in England for outstanding NSS results. 🙌

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We hope you're looking forward to our Class of 2024 Graduation ceremonies, starting next week! 🎉

Ahead of your big day, head to https://www.mmu.ac.uk/graduation for more information on arrival times, travelling to Bridgewater Hall, what happens at the ceremonies and more.

🌳🌎 Our Professor Kate Pahl and Dr David Cooper’s ‘Voices of the Future’ project aims to involve children and young people as co-researchers to explore the potential of future treescapes in mitigating climate change. It brings together environmental science with childhood and youth studies, education, English and geography, to focus on re-imagining treescapes of the future. Find out more on the AHEAD (Arts & Humanities Engagement & Dialogue) blog.

Voices of the future - AHEAD (Arts and Humanities Engagement and Dialogue) The ‘Voices of the Future’ project aims to involve children and young people as co-researchers to explore the potential of future treescapes in mitigating climate change.

Graduate Stories: Manchester Cathedral Writer-in-Residence Tom Branfoot talks about his poetically charged career after leaving University.

Graduate Stories: Manchester Cathedral Writer in Residence Tom Branfoot talks about his poetically charged career after leaving university - aAh! Magazine Featured image: Tom Branfoot Our new Graduate Stories series uncovers the diverse experiences of Manchester Met alumni, exploring the reality of life after graduation and highlighting career achievements. We shed light on the different paths graduates take, share relatable and honest advice, and pro...

Our Professor Andrew McMillan hosted New Writing North’s Northern Writers Awards last week, which saw several Manchester Metropolitan University successes, including BA alumnus Tom Branfoot, MA alumnus Callan Waldran-Hall, and Manchester Poetry Library’s Roma Havers. Congratulations, everyone!

The event also saw the launch of the new Tempest Prize which Andrew has set up with New Writing North.

Winners of the Northern Writers’ Awards 2024 unveiled Twenty-five writers from the north of England received Northern Writers’ Awards, collectively worth upwards of £50,000, at the Northern Writers’ Awards at a ceremony at Northumbria University, Newcastle.

Our Sonja Lawrenson and Matt Foley have co-edited the latest issue of the International Gothic Association’s journal “Gothic Studies”.

Their Melmoth’s Global Afterlives special issue is the first scholarly study dedicated to tracing the many afterlives of Charles Robert Maturin’s “Melmoth the Wanderer” (1820), with international contributors locating its influence across a diverse range of national and regional cultures, including those of Ireland, France, Russia, and Latin America.

Gothic Studies: Vol 26, No 2 Gothic Studies is the journal of the International Gothic Association, and covers the field of Gothic studies from the eighteenth century to the present day, providing an international platform for dialogue and cultural criticism in the sphere of Gothic from within every period and media form.

“It’s an exciting way of generating innovation." The Manchester Writing School's Creative Writing Summer School returned for 2024 - and aAh! magazine were there to report on all the action.

“It’s an exciting way of generating innovation”: Creative Writing Summer School returns for 2024 - aAh! Magazine Featured image: Juan Pablo Cifuentes The Manchester Writing School launched its annual Creative Writing Summer School, designed to give people a taste of life at one of the UK’s most esteemed literary centres and home to one of the UK’s largest postgraduate English and Creative Writing community...

Graduate Stories: Simon Rennie on creating a new sub-genre of poetry – “It changed the way I saw the world”.

Graduate Stories: Simon Rennie on creating a new sub-genre of poetry - “It changed the way I saw the world” - aAh! Magazine Featured image: Simon Rennie Our new Graduate Stories series uncovers the diverse experiences of Manchester Met alumni, exploring the reality of life after graduation and highlighting career achievements. We shed light on the different paths graduates take, share relatable and honest advice, and pro...

‘The first few nights were punishing’: how sleep restriction cured my lifelong insomnia.

Our Lara Williams, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, writes for The Observer.

‘The first few nights were punishing’: how sleep restriction cured my lifelong insomnia After giving birth, novelist Lara Williams feared she might never sleep again. So she turned to CBT-i, a radical therapy that rewired her relationship to sleep

Congratulations to all of our students who have received their assessment results, as well as those receiving their results soon!

In the June edition of MetCast, we continue to champion Creative Excellence and explore how Manchester Metropolitan innovates and shapes the film, media, fashion, literature, art and design industries. This edition features contributions from our Andrew Hurley and Monique Roffey talking about their creative work.

Manchester Met is celebrating its 200 year anniversary in 2024 and this month is looking at how creative excellence has been championed across two centuries – and continues to shape the industry today.

June 2024 — Making our mark at the box office, meeting the Creative Director of Max Mara, and Monique Roffey's new novel, Passiontide We explore how Manchester Metropolitan innovates and shapes the film, media, fashion, literature, art and design industries

Manchester Indian Film Festival: Creating TV Drama series collaboration brings together the city’s creatives.

This special networking event - co-led by our Anjum Malik - brought together writers and industry professionals as part of the Manchester Indian Film Festival’s collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University.

The event also celebrated an ongoing interdisciplinary project with BA Acting, MA Filmmaking, and BA Creative Writing students who have been working together to create the pilot for a TV drama series - debuted on the night.

Manchester Indian Film Festival: Creating TV Drama Series collaboration brings together the city's creatives - aAh! Magazine Featured image: Juan Pablo Cifuentes The ‘Creating TV Drama Series’ networking event brought together writers and industry professionals as part of the Manchester Indian Film Festival’s collaboration with Manchester Met. Hosted by the Manchester Writing School, it brought together staff and st...

‘Passionate protest novel’ from University author explores the power of protest and feminism. Manchester Metropolitan University Professor Monique Roffey’s ‘Passiontide’ receives praise ahead of publication.

‘Passionate protest novel’ from University author explores the power of protest and feminism Professor Monique Roffey’s ‘Passiontide’ receives praise ahead of publication