Katherine Foster is awarded her prize by Charlie Viney
Mulcahy & Viney Foster new talent
The Centre's annual Mulcahy & Viney Prize, for the best novel-in-progress by one of its MA in Creative Writing students, has been awarded to Katherine Foster, for an extract from her novel Three's a Crowd. The prize of £1,000 was awarded by Charlie Viney, co-founder of the literary agency, at a ceremony at Manchester's Central Library.
Mr Viney said: "The extract from Katherine's novel was the stand-out submission - her writing is extremely confident, page-turning and commercial."
Katherine, whose novel focuses on the break-up of a love triangle from alternating perspectives, will be represented by Mulcahy & Viney going forward.
Ian McGuire, Co-Director of the Centre for New Writing, said: "The Mulcahy & Viney prize is an excellent way for us to recognise and honour the work of the talented young writers in our programme. I am sure that, with the able assistance of the agency, Katherine Foster will go on to achieve great things."
The three other short-listed writers this year were Louise Marr, Richard Hulse and Vicky Lee.