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CRESC and the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester are pleased to announce a juried creative writing competition to accompany the CRESC annual conference to be held at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester in September 2011.

Prizes of £100 and £50 for first and 2nd places will be awarded to winning entries of up to 1500 words, which best capture the conference theme – Framing the City – and focus on the nature of change in the city of Manchester. Winning entries will also be published exclusively in the Centre for New Writing’s online magazine – The Manchester Review: http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/

Entries will be judged by a panel from the conference committee, the Centre for New Writing and editor of the Manchester Review. Winners will be announced at the conference opening ceremony on the 6th September 2011 and receive a signed copy of either Ian McEwan’s ‘Solar’ or Martin Amis’s ‘Pregnant Widow’.

Deadline for 2011 Manchester Creative Writing Competition entries 6th August 2011.

Entries (limited to one entry per person) are to be submitted via the CRESC conference writing competition website at cresc.annualconference@manchester.ac.uk

website: http://www.cresc.ac.uk/news/news-from-cresc/creative-writing-competition-framing-the-city