PRIZE WRITING
champions of the world The 2017 Manchester Writing Competition is now open for entries, offering £10,000 prizes for poetry and fiction. Here we showcase some of the winning work from the 2016 competition.
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ttracting hundreds of entries from across the world, the Manchester Writing Competition has become a prestigious fixture in the literary calendar. The winners of the 2016 Manchester Writing Competition were announced in a gala ceremony held in the medieval Baronial Hall at Chetham’s Library in Manchester. The Fiction Prize was judged by Nicholas Royle, Janice Galloway and Juliet Pickering and the Poetry Prize by Adam O’Riordan, Sarah Howe and Helen Mort. Poets Dante Di Stefano and Rebecca Tamás shared the £10,000 Manchester Poetry Prize, with D. W. Wilson winning the £10,000 Manchester Fiction Prize. Canadian author D. W. Wilson submitted the short story All This Concrete Beneath Your Feet. The story is about a man and his young son as they drive down the Alaskan Highway. Motels, diners and Mounties. What are they
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running from and where will they end up? Poets Dante Di Stefano and Rebecca Tamás each won £5,000. Dante, who lives in America, submitted three poems: Verrückt; Reading Dostoyevsky at Seventeen; and Reading Rilke in Early Autumn. Rebecca, who is originally from London and lives in Norwich, submitted five poems: Julian of Norwich; Theresa of Ãvila; Hildegard of Bingen; Simone Weil; and Marguerite Porete. The 2017 competition is now open for entries, with prizes of £10,000 available for winners of the poetry and fiction prizes. On the following pages we provide an opportunity to read a selection of 2016’s winning work. Visit mmu.ac.uk writingcompetition/ for details of how to enter the 2017 Manchester Writing Competition