LTU English

19/03/2026

So looking forward to catching up again with crime writer Liz Mistry, who 'credits her MA in Creative Writing from Leeds Trinity University with helping her find a way of using her writing to navigate her ongoing mental health struggles.' She is coming back to the MA, but this time as a successful author with 15 novels under her belt, a PhD (also from ) and lots of professional advice for our current MA cohort. We can't wait to hear what she has to say!

Authors Liz Mistry Liz Mistry moved to West Yorkshire in the late 1980s. Her two gritty crime fiction police procedural novels set in Bradford – the DI Gus McGuire series and her DS Nikki Parekh series – embrace the city she describes as ‘Warm, Rich and Fearless’ whilst exploring the darknes...

19/03/2026

Our annual anthology, edited by two PGs taking our MA in Creative Writing, with Oz Hardwick, our Prof of Creative Writing 🙂

19/03/2026

The second of our requested workshops after the news spread of the DEFRA-funded project 'Everyone's a Seed': we love these workshops and the poems that people write in them.

Huge thanks to Alex and Alison from the RHS for arranging a wonderful workshop at the Nowell Mount Community Centre in Leeds yesterday. What a lovely group of people, with a lot of energy inspired, no doubt, by the beautiful spring weather. We’re looking forward to reading everything that came out of the session, but special thanks to Kim Hall for sending this response afterwards.

03/03/2026

A poetry competition:


"The Montreal International Poetry Prize 2026 is now open for submissions. Enter your poem of 40 lines or fewer for a chance to win a cash prize of $20,000.
"The Montreal Prize celebrates the craft of the stand-alone poem as a work of art. The biennial competition, open to poets from around the world, is a not-for-profit initiative hosted by the Department of English at McGill University. All entries must be previously unpublished and simultaneous submissions are permitted. An international jury will select sixty-five finalists and the winner will be chosen by the final judge Natalie Diaz, whose many honours include a MacArthur Fellowship, Lannan Literary Foundation Fellowship, and Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellowship. All finalists will be published online and included in The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2026.
"Submission fees for first entries are $25 until the early bird deadline 1 May, and $28 after that until submissions close. Every additional poem is $20 at any time (all prices in Canadian dollars).
The final deadline is 15 May. We are looking forward to reading your work!
Submit at

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08/02/2026

Announcing the new anthology call for submissions! open to anyone connected with Leeds Trinity University, as students, staff, or Wordspace, the Writers' Festival, or any other writing events connected with the University. Here are the details: https://www.facebook.com/share/17pLVW91U9/

Power Lines, the 2026 anthology brought to you by Leeds Trinity University!

08/02/2026

Power Lines, the 2026 anthology brought to you by Leeds Trinity University!