Manchester Review

📣 Submissions Open: Issue 28 of The Manchester Review. The editors of The Manchester Review are now accepting submissions for Issue 28! We are excited to read your best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

Issue 27 of The Manchester Review is here! Thank you to all of our wonderful contributers. themanchesterreview.co.uk

Issue 27 will soon be here...

Submissions for Issue 27 are now open until 25th March 2025. Please take a look at the submission guidelines on our website before you submit. We’re looking forward to reading your finest poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.

'The strength of The Wager and The Bear is its ability to escape the utopianism of climate activism and the cynicism of climate apathy/denial.' Paul Knowles and Samantha Cassells review The Wager and the Bear, by John Ironmonger, published by @fly_press: themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=12776

'This novel is already, and will (I think) be considered in future, an important novel for what it says about race and the legacy of slavery on the American popular consciousness.' Joseph Hunter reviews James, by Percival Everett: themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=12746

@turnbullissimo Hi Harry – our calls for submission are very much public! Apologies if sending you a reply slipped the net, we had a big backlog of submissions this time around, and did our best. Feel free to resubmit in the next window!

@mancreview Following my intial query I never did see anyway of submitting. Is it for those in the know?

We are pleased to launch Issue 26 of The Manchester Review. '...an eclectic goody-bag that showcases a wide range of genres, styles and perspectives and contains writing from well-established, upcoming, and first-time writers.' themanchesterreview.co.uk

P.S. In keeping with the general movement of the times, we are now on Bluesky: @manchesterreview.bsky.social Please, find us on there.

'All is seamlessly layered: soaring orchestra, beautiful stage dressing and costumes, and dynamic physical performances.' Joseph Hunter reviews The Magic Flute at The Lowry, Salford (@The_Lowry): themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=12575

'...an astonishingly good, eclectic anthology of short fiction' Paul Anthony Knowles reviews Duets, from Scratch Books (@scratch_books): themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=12556

🗣️✍️Building your Portfolio - how writers can establish themselves through competitions, magazines and more. Ft. @PKCoeditorMR (co-editor @mancreview), Debbie Taylor (editor @mslexia) and author A.K Blakemore. #NCWID24

'...we are always led to an understanding eventually, either through a single moment of epiphany or an accumulation of detail. We are rarely trusted to wonder for long.' Sam Lamplugh reviews Held, by Anne Michaels: themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=12542

'...a fresh and compassionate insight into the plight of the two female leads' Paul Anthony Knowles and Sam Cassells review Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=12537

'...a sculptural, caressing melody from Wall... the melodies and countermelodies she plays seem to require at least three hands.' Joseph Hunter reviews FitkinWall (@graham_fitkin, @RuthWallharp), Harpland, at Sale Waterside Arts Theatre (@WatersideArts): themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=12530

On @RTEArena this evening #johnmcauliffe will talk about his new poetry collection ‘National Theatre’. #newirishpoetry @poetryireland @mancreview

'The play is at its best in the back and forth between Wilson, the band, and the band’s manager Rob Gretton... or when the band ‘play’ for the audience.' Peter Wild reviews New Dawn Fades @rncmlive: themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=12527

'A lingering sense of trepidation—whether inspired by one’s own self, or by others, or by one’s surroundings—is palpable throughout...' Lindz McLeod reviews Modern Gothic, an anthology by @fly_press: themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=12524