The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University is currently inviting applications for its MA in Creative Writing for the 2008 programme due to start this autumn. Tutors include Michael Symmons Roberts, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and the Carcanet poet Linda Chase. Another Carcanet poet, Jeffery Wainwright, taught on the programme for many years and will give a reading to launch his new collection, Clarity or Death!, as part of the Writing School's autumn events programme.

For more information please visit www.mmu.ac.uk/english/writingschool.

Or contact James Draper on +44 (0)161 247 1787 or j.draper@mmu.ac.uk


Extended Family by Linda Chase and Clarity or Death by Jeffery Wainwright are available from www.carcanet.co.uk with a 10% discount and free UK p&p.