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The University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing runs taught MA courses and PhD research programmes in creative and critical writing. According to its website, it was "formed to develop and refine postgraduate and undergraduate students' writing, and explore and research collaboration between creative and critical work." It has a staff of distinguished writers including the novelists M. J. Hyland and
Martin Amis Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels ''Money'' (1984) and ''London Fields'' (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir '' ...
, whose appointment as Professor of Creative Writing was announced in February 2007."Martin Amis joins the University of Manchester"
''University of Manchester Press Office'', 16 February 2007.
Amis was succeeded by Irish novelist and essayist Colm Toibin in October 2011, and Toibin was subsequently replaced by the current professor, Jeanette Winterson. The Centre also runs the 'Literature Live' series of events,"The Centre for New Writing's Literature Live events"
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in which well known contemporary novelists and poets read from and discuss their work with an audience of students and members of the public. In October 2008 the Centre for New Writing launched a new cultural journal The Manchester Review, which aims to "nurture and promote the best emerging talent as well as featuring new work by leading writers and artists."


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Centre for New Writing

The Manchester Review
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