THE MANCHESTER ANTHOLOGY is an annual publication from the Centre for New Writing, showcasing the work of graduates from the MA Creative Writing programme. Featuring short stories, poetry, non-fiction and novel extracts.
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​​The Manchester Anthology recognises emerging voices in literature. Previous contributors have gone on to become successful writers, such as Beth Underdown, Alys Conran, Joe Carrick-Varty, Thomas D. Lee, Jessica Moor and Nat Ogle.​​
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On Volume Fourteen, Professor John McAuliffe said:
'The MA in Creative Writing at Manchester has always been home to an array of writers whose imagination is both local to their own stories but with aspirations for larger, twenty-first century resonances, and this 2024 graduating class is no exception: from a university drama rehearsal space and a school run to a ruined Kyankyer village, corporate India's creative industries, West Ryedale Council chamber and other even more fantastical worlds: these writers situate crisis, recognition and discovery, finding a way to make sense of what poet Taira Deshpande calls life, and death, this 'great big swirling confusing thing."
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About The Centre for New Writing
Championing contemporary fiction, poetry and creative writing since 2007, the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester teaches people how to write novels, short stories, poems, plays and screenplays. Tutors help students to read as a writer reads, offering seminars on form and theory, and on contemporary publishing. Their teaching staff includes established, award-winning writers such as Jeanette Winterson, Jason Allen-Paisant, Horatio Clare, Vona Groarke, John McAuliffe and Kaye Mitchell.​