Monday Night Group

  Moving Manchester Project

  £1000 Creative Writing Commission

  Moving Manchester is an Arts & Humanities Research Council-funded project based at Lancaster University to research and catalogue migrant writing in Manchester since 1960. The project will produce an academic study based on its findings, but it also has a number of creative outputs - an online Writers Gallery, creative writing workshops, and a specially commissioned work, which will be showcased on our website and at our conference in Manchester in September 2009. The commissioned work will also appear in a special edition of the transcultural journal 'Moving Worlds' to be published by August 2009.

  We are now inviting applications from writers living in the Greater Manchester area for the commission, which will take the form of a short story, long poem, poem sequence or performance piece that is also suited to the page. The work should be a maximum of 5,000 words or should take up not more than 5 pages in the case of poetry.

  The commissioned work should take as its theme one or more of the following: the experience of migration to Manchester from overseas; some form of significant migration or re-location within the city; Manchester as a multiculturally imagined city. The successful applicant will receive £1,000 for their work, including all expenses.

  Applicants should submit the following in electronic form:

  

    
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  A CV detailing your writing experience
      
    
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  A publications list
      
    
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  A sample of creative work (3 pages max)
      
    
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  An outline proposal for the commission