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Masterly trio to inspire Darlington

29 September 2010

 

Teesside University is celebrating the achievements of students from its MA in Creative Writing, with a special ‘Lit Night’, featuring readings from a successful trio of new writers.

The event, starting at 7.00pm on Thursday September 30, is at Teesside University’s interim Darlington Campus, The Fairway, Darlington.

Chairing is novelist Carol Clewlow who teaches on the MA, and University staff will be on hand with information for anyone interested in the course.

The readers are:

>MA graduate Jennie Finch. She has been shortlisted for the Impress First Novel prize. She was also named runner-up in the prestigious European Literary Award of the Ruhr short story competition, jointly run by the twinned regions of the Tees Valley and the Ruhr. First prize for the Impress competition will be the publication of Jennie’s detective novel, On the Level. The novel was started during the MA’s first Writing Detective Fiction course this summer.

>Rebecca Muddiman, who graduates this year, has been given a £3,500 Time to Write award by New Writing North, for her novel Stolen, about a woman’s obsession with finding her abducted daughter.

>Nik Jones, whose first book 9987 received glowing reviews after being chosen as one of New Writing North’s 2009 Read Regional titles. He has just completed his second novel, which started on the course, and his work also appears in a new short story collection.


 
 
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