Centre for New Writing
Welcome to the Centre for New Writing
Offering taught MA courses and PhD research programmes in critical and creative writing, and unique writer events.
Welcome to the Centre for New Writing
The Centre for New Writing runs two MA programmes - the MA in Creative Writing and the MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture
The Centre's MA in Creative Writing is one of the most popular and exciting in the country. Each week, our MA students participate in an intensive, practical and vibrant workshop, during which their fiction or poetry is discussed in depth. In addition to honing their writing skills in our Writing Workshops, our students also develop critical reading skills in two complementary Reading Modules, Forms of Fiction / Reading Poetry, and Contemporary Literature.
The Centre's MA in Creative Writing is one of the most popular and exciting in the country. Each week, our MA students participate in an intensive, practical and vibrant workshop, during which their fiction or poetry is discussed in depth. In addition to honing their writing skills in our Writing Workshops, our students also develop critical reading skills in two complementary Reading Modules, Forms of Fiction / Reading Poetry, and Contemporary Literature.
Centre Events
The Centre runs Literature Live, a celebrated series of on-campus public readings and conversations with some of the biggest names in literature, many of whom also give specialised writing workshops for our MA students. Past visiting authors include Clive James, Ian McEwan, Will Self, Hilary Mantel, John Banville, Seamus Heaney and Al Alvarez.
27th February 2012
LITERATURE LIVE: Gregory O’Brien, Rebecca Perry and Rachel Connor
The latest event in the Literature Live series, with Gregory O’Brien, Rebecca Perry and Rachel Connor
Click here for more information on this event
MA and PhD Courses
Our courses provide regular deadlines and a committed, supportive readership among fellow students and tutors, and there is a regular series of events with visiting publishers, editors and agents.
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The Centre's online journal, The Manchester Review. Look out for the new issue out in autumn 2011
Professor of Creative Writing
In 2007, the Centre for New Writing was delighted to appoint Martin Amis as its inaugural professor of Creative Writing. In 2011 this professorial post is filled by the renowned Irish author, Colm Tóibín, who will take fortnightly fiction workshops with our students, as well as appearing on stage in events in our dedicated Literature Live venue, The Martin Harris Centre, along with a number of renowned special guests from the literary world.