The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
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16 Sep 2025
š£ Submissions Open: Issue 28 of The Manchester Review.
The editors of The Manchester Review are now accepting submissions for Issue 28! We are excited to read your best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
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5 Jul 2025
Issue 27 of The Manchester Review is here! Thank you to all of our wonderful contributers.
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25 Feb 2025
Submissions for Issue 27 are now open until 25thĀ March 2025.
Please take a look at the submission guidelines on our website before you submit. Weāre looking forward to reading your finest poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.
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20 Dec 2024
'The strength of The Wager and The Bear is its ability to escape the utopianism of climate activism and the cynicism of climate apathy/denial.'
Paul Knowles and Samantha Cassells review The Wager and the Bear, by John Ironmonger, published by @fly_press:
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4 Dec 2024
'This novel is already, and will (I think) be considered in future, an important novel for what it says about race and the legacy of slavery on the American popular consciousness.'
Joseph Hunter reviews James, by Percival Everett:
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27 Nov 2024
P.S. In keeping with the general movement of the times, we are now on Bluesky: @manchesterreview.bsky.social
Please, find us on there.
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27 Nov 2024
We are pleased to launch Issue 26 of The Manchester Review.
'...an eclectic goody-bag that showcases a wide range of genres, styles and perspectives and contains writing from well-established, upcoming, and first-time writers.'
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19 Nov 2024
'All is seamlessly layered: soaring orchestra, beautiful stage dressing and costumes, and dynamic physical performances.'
Joseph Hunter reviews The Magic Flute at The Lowry, Salford (@The_Lowry):
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14 Nov 2024
'...an astonishingly good, eclectic anthology of short fiction'
Paul Anthony Knowles reviews Duets, from Scratch Books (@scratch_books):
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13 Nov 2024
š£ļøāļøBuilding your Portfolio - how writers can establish themselves through competitions, magazines and more.
Ft. @PKCoeditorMR (co-editor @mancreview), Debbie Taylor (editor @mslexia) and author A.K Blakemore.
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12 Nov 2024
'...we are always led to an understanding eventually, either through a single moment of epiphany or an accumulation of detail. We are rarely trusted to wonder for long.'
Sam Lamplugh reviews Held, by Anne Michaels:
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12 Nov 2024
'...a fresh and compassionate insight into the plight of the two female leads'
Paul Anthony Knowles and Sam Cassells review Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon:
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30 Oct 2024
'...a sculptural, caressing melody from Wall... the melodies and countermelodies she plays seem to require at least three hands.'
Joseph Hunter reviews FitkinWall (@graham_fitkin, @RuthWallharp), Harpland, at Sale Waterside Arts Theatre (@WatersideArts):
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30 Oct 2024
On @RTEArena this evening #johnmcauliffe will talk about his new poetry collection āNational Theatreā. #newirishpoetry @poetryireland @mancreview
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30 Oct 2024
On @RTEArena this evening #johnmcauliffe will talk about his new poetry collection āNational Theatreā. #newirishpoetry @poetryireland @mancreview
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28 Oct 2024
'The play is at its best in the back and forth between Wilson, the band, and the bandās manager Rob Gretton... or when the band āplayā for the audience.'
Peter Wild reviews New Dawn Fades @rncmlive:
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26 Oct 2024
'A lingering sense of trepidationāwhether inspired by oneās own self, or by others, or by oneās surroundingsāis palpable throughout...'
Lindz McLeod reviews Modern Gothic, an anthology by @fly_press:
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'Ampersand is a mosaic of histories, narratives, and the questions that we ask ourselves in order that we might survive.'
Alexandria Mowray reviews @bastille, & (Ampersand), at Manchester Cathedral:
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25 Oct 2024
Throwback to last year's ENSFR international short story conference which took place exactly one year ago (23-25 Oct 2023) at @OfficialUoM!
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