News Archive 2008
Fine time with Feinstein - December 2008
Elaine Feinstein reads to a full house at the John Rylands Library.
Amis and guests talk science - December 2008
Philosopher John Gray and psychotherapist Adam Phillips join Literature and Science debate.
MA alumnus: Shucked in print - November 2008
Adrian Joyce's first story to be published.
Winner of Mulcahy Conway Prize announced - November 2008
Annual prize goes to Xiena Saeed.
Jenny Diski on ...the Woman Writing - November 2008
Acclaimed novel- and memoir-writer reads from and discusses new book.
Gaim-an for a laugh - October 2008
Superstar sci-fi and fantasy writer Neil Gaiman wows his fans.
Double whammy for Literature Festival - October 2008
World-renowned poets Ciaran Carson and Jorie Graham appear at the Centre.
Centre alumni scoop two big wins at City Life Blog Awards - October 2008
Susie Stubbs wins Blog of the Year and Jenn Ashworth Best Writing on a Blog
MA student shortlisted for Impress Prize for New Writers - October 2008
Florence Talks' book proposal makes the list, with the result expected within the next few weeks.
Booker nominees launch Literature Live - October 2008
Andrew O'Hagan and Colm Toibin launch this season's readings.
Portico Prize shortlist includes MA alumna Sallie Day's Palace of Strange Girls - October 2008
The winner of the only prize exclusively for books about, or set mainly in, the North of England, will be announced in November.
Amis on Larkin's life, loves and letters - October 2008
New events season gets off to a lively start.
Centre launches new literary journal, The Manchester Review - October 2008
Launch issue includes exclusive extract from new John Banville novel The Sinking City.
Kaye Mitchell's Intention and Text published - September 2008
Kaye's analysis and critique of the concept of intention hits the bookshops.
Sarah releases Other Beasts - September 2008
PhD poetry student Sarah Corbett's third collection, Other Beasts, is published.
Joe Pemberton's novel to be re-published - August 2008
Centre alumnus will see his novel, Forever and Ever Amen, republished in September.
Manchester writers practise what they preach - July 2008
Creative writing lecturers Ian McGuire and Michael Symmons Roberts showcase their own work.
Wigfall wins windfall - July 2008
Manchester alumna and Literature Live guest wins BBC National Short Story prize.
Amis rejects heaven at latest literary debate - July 2008
Martin Amis, James Wood and Graham Ward hold forth on literature and religion.
Curtain call for Centre's Writers in Residence - June 2008
Novelist Joe Stretch and poet Neil Rollinson read from a selection of their work to mark the end of their Residencies at the Centre at the end of June.
Hay Joe - May 08
Joe Stretch visits the Hay Festival fringe.
Kaye sells out - May 2008
Full house at Kaye Mitchell event on lesbian pulp fiction.
Spotlight on the mundane - May 2008
Geoff Ryman's 'mundane' movement takes centre stage.
Centre's students launch Wufniks magazine - April 2008
Students on the MA in Creative Writing celebrate the first two issues of their new writing magazine, Wufniks.
Poetry Review hits the north - April 2008
The UK's leading poetry magazine, Poetry Review, visited the Centre for New Writing to launch its spring 'green issue'.
Home turf hit for John McAuliffe and Matt Welton - April 2008
Manchester-based poets join forces for Literature Live.
Michael Symmons Roberts joins Poetry Review launch event - April 2008
The poet, fiction-writer and broadcaster has joined the bill of our FREE launch event for the spring issue of Poetry Review on Monday 14 April.
August Kleinzahler and Joe Stretch hit the town - March 2008
Acclaimed US poet August Kleinzahler was joined at the last minute by our writer in residence Joe Stretch for Monday's Literature Live event.
Up front and personal; Hanif Kureishi visits the Centre - March 2008
Hanif Kureishi appears as part of the Centre's Literature Live programme.
Everyone's talking about Boy A - March 2008
Alumni's novel voted Britain's most discussion-worthy book.
Triumphant homecoming for Manchester alumni - February 2008
Clare Wigfall and Jonathan Trigell return to Manchester for the Centre's first Literature Live event of 2008.
New boy makes a big noise - February 2008
New Writer in Residence Joe Stretch is making a big noise with his first novel, Friction.
Centre co-director tipped for the top - January 2008
Poet John McAuliffe twice tipped as 'one to watch' by the Guardian: by author and literary journalist Giles Foden and poet, playwright and Newcastle professor of creative writing Sean O'Brien.
MA alumna's birthday treat - January 2008
Sallie Day's novel The Palace of Strange Girls is published.
Mulcahy & VIney Foster new talent - January 2008
Katherine Foster wins literary agency's annual prize.