Colm Toibin is Manchester’s latest Professor of Creative Writing

World-renowned author Colm Toibin has been appointed as Professor of Creative Writing at The University of Manchester. The Toibin appointment coincides with the news that Martin Amis is to finish his tenure at the University in July after four years, also as Professor of Creative Writing. After extending his time at the University by a year, Amis and his family are moving to New York, the home city of his wife. Since his arrival, there has been a 100 per cent increase in students applying for Centre for New Writing Courses where he is based. His sell out public events were hugely popular - attracting luminaries such as Howard Jacobson, John Banville, and Melvyn Bragg. Professor Toibin will continue where Amis left off, teaching postgraduate students for two days a week at the University for one semester a year and taking part in four public events. He will hold a fiction workshop for Master students and a new course called Arts for Writers- where he will bring composers, artists and other arts practitioners into the seminar room to explore how music art and theatre influences writing.