Manchester Fiction Prize
In his closing remarks at the awards ceremony for the Manchester Fiction Prize, Nicholas Royle, the Chair of Judges, comments on the selection process and on recognising the winning stories.
On winning the Fish International Short Story Competition
This year’s Fish Short Story Prize winner, MARY O’DONNELL considers the value of literary competitions and urges all to take the leap and enter our work.
Connective Writing
PAULINE MASUREL shares her thoughts on the benefits and drawbacks of writing workshops and invites readers to share their own experiences.
The Writer – Everywhere and Nowhere
SOUMYA BHATTACHARYA asks: As a practising writer, what, really, are the pleasures and perils of writing? And in what way and to what extent, in the exercise of writing, the practice of it, does the writer’s self come into play?
My True Love
Pauline Masurel has a love affair with words.
Biographical Notes, by Pauline Masurel
Pauline Masurel says…Own up! How many of you turn first to the biographical notes when handed a new anthology? It’s a terrible confession to make but sometimes I find I’m more curious about who I’m reading than what I’m reading.
How do we keep the fires burning?
I am three months into my MA and I find myself experimenting with ways in which my critical research can set up little fires under my creative practice, so that my creative juices (or impulses) don’t cool, congeal and sit in a fatty layer around the edges of my brain.
Reviewing Short Stories, by Pauline Masurel
I don’t regard myself as an academic, a journalist or a non-fiction writer. So reviews may seem a curious form for me to write. But I would argue that there is also something creative about concocting a coherent book review. It’s a statement that is, necessarily, partial and entirely personal and is also an exercise in constructing a ‘voice’ and a point of view for getting across your message.
Masters and PhD in English and Creative Writing
‘The Chichester MA in Creative Writing is setting exceptionally high standards… [A] great strength of the MA is the liveliness and innovative spirit of the work produced.’ Professor Jo Shapcott, External Examiner