City Voice 2025 features creative work written by students on the MFA Creative Writing: the third 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
Wesley Joyner
An anxious ghost and a sharp-tongued cheerleader race to outwit the crew behind their favorite true-crime podcast
Tadgh Ahern
An anxious narrator confronts heat, memory, and fear, revealing how small moments expose overwhelming inner turmoil
Suneha Gowda
An immigrant’s bakery job becomes a battleground for survival, humour, and belonging
Sarah Dalkin
She longs for a home she can shutter against a corrupt world, and wash the blood from her hands. A literary thriller with echoes of Tana French
Marissa Harney
When two halves of the same soul each lose a parent, they must decide whether they’re willing to give each other up in order to avenge their family legacies
Madeline Jordan
Love. Loss. Games. Politics. Possible Witch Trials. And your boyfriend’s dad might be a dictator
Lorenzo Di Brino
A London split by a wall; two sisters on opposing sides, torn apart by ideology
Joseph Idalu
Victory comes at a tremendous personal cost for Mr O after he gets Lapite registered in camp
Jasmin Kanth
A coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the youth-led climate movement in London
James Castles
Doctor, Doctor is an intimate portrayal of the life of a new NHS doctor, and how the job breaks him
Ever McMillan
Seeking escape from a directionless life, a young man finds purpose, and devastation, in the wild Sierra Nevada Mountains
Emily Johnson
Two musicians, two careers, ten years, one romance. Fame eats Maisie and Joey alive; the Internet lays the table
Ella Neiman
A rogue soldier travels the galaxy in a quest to resurrect her crewmates before their spirits consume her mind
Ellie Feltovic
Revenant is a tumultuous coming-of-age ghost story following two teenagers as they navigate grief, loss, love, and friendship in the 1990s
Andy Pearch
Move over Mad Men, here come the Add Men. Stories of ambition, power and retribution behind the advertising curtain
Alexandra Narin
When stories become living, parasitic beings inside your own body, do you control your life? Or do they?
English, Publishing and Creative Writing at City 