Manchester Review out now

30 Apr 2013 The tenth edition of The University of Manchester's online arts journal the Manchester Review is now live. ppearing each spring and autumn, the journal offers a mix of new music, public debate, visual art and video as well as fiction and poetry. Produced from the University's Centre for New Writing, it is edited by the Centre's co-directors John McAuliffe and Ian McGuire, and Jodie Kim and Valerie O'Riordan. New Zealander Emma Martin, Australian Michael Farrell and Filipino writer Vince Serrano all contribute. They are joined by Irish poet Conor O'Callaghan, the American writers Carlos Cunha and Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Canada's Anne Compton: Janet Wolff's stunning non-fiction draws on her work as an art historian to complement memories of her Manchester family and childhood. Young British poets Joey Connolly, Alys Conran, Richie McCaffery, Jen Campbell, Joe Dresner and Martin Monahan also feature alongside Kathryn Simmonds, Allison MacVety and Peter Sansom. There will also be an extract from creative writing alumnus Marli Roode's first novel, Call it Dog, due out next month from Atlantic and an extract from poet Justin Quinn's first novel, Mount Merrion.