Our students longlisted for the Aurora Prize for Writing!

Congratulations to Cathy Symes, Lauren Colley and Lucile Deslignères, all current School of English students who have been longlisted for the Aurora Prize for Writing! The Aurora Prize is a national writing competition run by Writing East Midlands, in partnership with the Society of Authors, that has run since 2016 and seeks outstanding new writing in short fiction and poetry. The judges for this year are best-selling crime novelist Vaseem Khan for the Short Fiction category and esteemed poet and author Andrew McMillan for the Poetry category, the winners will be announced at the award ceremony on the 30th October 2024. 

Our longlisted students:

• Cathy Symes (MA Creative Writing) - The Spaces in Between (Short Fiction)
• Lauren Colley (PhD English) - Stories my Grandmother Told Me (Poetry)
• Lucile Deslignères (MA English Studies) - Burgundy in Paris (Poetry)

For more information on the Aurora Prize please visit the Writing East Midlands website.