City Voice 2023 features creative work written by students on the MFA Creative Writing: the first graduating class of the newly designed two-year programme that builds towards the production of a book-length manuscript. Click on the image at left to view the PDF, or scroll down to meet the writers. Happy reading!
Meet the Writers
Caroline Winter
There’s a reason why Cupid’s arrows are both a symbol of love and of destruction…
Ciera Lloyd
There You’ll Be is a decades-spanning conversation between a WWII-era grandmother and a modern-day granddaughter
Evann Orleck-Jetter
A disassociated young woman wrestles with identity, voyeurism and belonging in this darkly comic coming-of-age tale
Hannah Alejandro
A memoir of adventure, sex, and grief – and the struggle to accept what we cannot change
Hassan Almadhari
Feeling lost at home is daunting. “What does it take escape this alienation?” he thought while staring into his cup of coffee
Matt Proietti
A former military journalist becomes editor of a small newspaper in a quirky mountain town and accidentally falls in love with the older woman who is his boss
Ryn Acosta
@dimaabala: TFW you wanna see crushie but you’re mid-photoshoot with your shitty aswang ex
Saman Williams
Lavender girl is a coming-of-age love story between a twenty-one-year-old art student, Hallie, and her musician flat mate, Luca
English, Publishing and Creative Writing at City 