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Manchester Writing Competition
First prize : £10,000
First prize : £10,000
Established in 1998 within the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University, the Manchester Writing School is a thriving centre of creative excellence, working to benefit the literary community at large, under the direction of Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. The School hosts a vibrant series of public reading events, a leading outreach network, and a biennial festival of children's literature.
At the heart of the School's work is the university's ambitious MA Creative Writing programme, available to study on campus in Manchester, and also internationally through online distance learning in the Virtual Writing School. Many students and graduates have gone on to have their work accepted for publication. This success has been attributed to the quality of teaching on offer across the programme – especially the detailed editorial work that goes on in fiction and poetry workshops. The MA is taught by high-profile writers and critics including: Sherry Ashworth, Heather Beck, Vicki Bertram, Andrew Biswell, N. M. Browne, Eleanor Byrne, Carol Ann Duffy, Nikolai Duffy, Catherine Fox, Rachel Genn, Robert Graham, Gregory Norminton, Adam O'Riordan, Michael Symmons Roberts, Jacqueline Roy, Nicholas Royle, Andrew Rudd, John Sears and Jean Sprackland.
In 2008, funded by the University's innovative Enterprise Fellowship scheme, the Manchester Writing School built on its ongoing work by launching the Manchester Writing Competition – a new literary prize designed to attract and celebrate the best new writing from around the world, and to establish Manchester as the focal point for a major literary award.
Each year, the competition aims to award a substantial cash prize to the overall winner, or winners. The competition will alternate between Poetry and Fiction on an annual basis.
To find out more and enter, please click on the links below:
To find out more about our courses and events visit the Manchester Writing School website: www.mmu.ac.uk/writingschool or contact James Draper, Manager of the the Manchester Writing School at MMU, on: +44 (0) 161 247 1787 or j.draper@mmu.ac.uk.
