Creative Writing 2022

City Voices 2022 features creative work written by students on the MA Creative Writing: the class of 2022, the first graduating class of the newly designed programme. In it you will find a range of pieces and extracts. Happy reading!

Meet the Writers

Gabriella Lewis-Jagne

Powerful literature that’ll incite empathy and healing, producing meaningful change and social justice creating a valuable contribution to the literary landscape

Mackenzie Manelski

Halfway between life and death, Marshall navigates the perils of being sixteen with only a dolphin for help

Freda Mills 

A moving and gripping family saga set against the backdrop of one of the most successful car dealerships in Ireland

Olumayokun Ogunde

A PhD student studying the history of romance in Yoruba folklore finds that theory and reality are not the same

Mololuwa M. Ogunyemi

Three overwhelmed twenty-something trainees, overloaded with responsibility, look for ways to bring peace to their world of never-ending chaos

Christopher Smith

Follow Mixni and Glorkim as they navigate the twisted world around them, searching for family and true freedom