City Voices 2023 features creative work written by students on the MA Creative Writing: the class of 2023, the second graduating class of the newly designed programme. Click on the image at left to view the PDF, or scroll down to meet the writers. Happy reading!
Meet the Writers
Adel Bedoud
As the storm on the horizon draws nearer, The Search is all there is left to live for
Alexander Ilderton
A tender, tentative romance between two young painters unfolds against the wintry backdrop of rural Italy
Alim Kheraj
An evocative novel about friendship, liberation and queer life, where the personal is political
Brandon Biney
Nouveau imperial noble and grey ace Simon’s world is torn asunder by the stygian wings of his past
Christina Kampani
Nori would kill to be beautiful – in fact, she just did
Claire Fox Baron
Seamstress Lauren begins stitching together the life of her mysterious potential friend Margot but soon finds herself unravelling the threads of her own
Hanna Milojek
‘All I wanted’ is a story about freedom, obsession and escalators. We follow the narrator as she gives up everything to get closer to what she wants
Hazel Norbury
You can run as far as you want, but you’ll never escape who you are
Lilian Pizzichini
An ageing female writer explores what home and identity mean when you’re working-class and broke
Nadja Lima
Ladon’s spontaneously time-travelling. Is it the drugs or have the Gods turned their backs on him?
Naomi Hewston
All veneers have their cracks
Nisha Burman
A delinquent Celtic God. A rule following Hindu Goddess. And a world to save. Forbidden celestial love and the timeless battle of good versus evil. Meet Eamonn and Durga from the Kaliyuga Series
Paige Simmons
Angels, Demons and misunderstood fairytales. A crime that needs solving and a world that needs discovering
Priscilla Yeung
A commercial orchestra was kicked out of their performance venue of fifty years. How will the new female impresario fight back? Rondo is a literary novel about female empowerment, friendship and the reintroduction of forgotten female composers in history
Rebecca McMinn
A literary, coming-of-age novel set in Belfast about friendship, identity, and the meaning of home.
Simran Wran
A modern retelling of Bluebeard that gives the voices back to the unheard women trapped by him
English, Publishing and Creative Writing at City 