Flash Fiction / Non-fiction Competition Celebrates Black History Month
11 Oct 2024
To celebrate Black History Month this year, we are holding our second Flash Fiction or Non-fiction Competition for all undergraduate students in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures.
How to enter
Third prize (Fiction or Non-fiction) £25 (voucher)
The winning entries will be published on SALC’s social responsibility webpages, University webpages for public access and on the Manchester Review.
Winners will be announced in December 2024.
The judging panel:
Dr Patience Muwanguzi
Patience is a global health scholar, who has studied and worked across Uganda, the USA and the UK. Her work is extensive and covers behavioural and mental health strategies, transgender stigma reduction, and HIV and prevention. During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda, she led a team that tracked and modelled patient trends at high-volume emergency care centres. She is now based in UoM in the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI).
Dr Ingrid Hanson (English and American Studies)
Ingrid has published widely on William Morris and was invited as an expert onto BBC Radio 4's In Our Time and Radio 3's The Essay. She has also published on Victorian socialist obituaries and conscientious objectors in the First World War, and her essay won the Review of English Studies prize in 2010. She worked in journalism, freelance writing, and community teaching for fifteen years before returning to academia and has taught at universities across the UK before arriving in Manchester.
Dr Andy Boakye (Religions and Theology)
Andy is a London born and bred New Testament critic, and was invited as an expert on BBc Radio 4’s Beyond Belief to talk about Masculinity and Religion. His research interests include the origins of Christianity, the Pauline letters resurrection theology, masculinity studies, intertextuality and the historical Jesus – but his first degree from Kings was in medical biochemistry. He is a former rugby player, connoisseur of obscure hip-hop music and a Spurs supporter.
Dr Sheena Kalayil (UCAE & MLC)
Sheena’s third novel The Wild Wind is based on her nomadic childhood, spent shuttling between Zambia and Zimbabwe, where her parents were teachers, and Kerala, India. Her fourth novel, The Others, will be published by Fly on The Wall Press in 2025, and is set around the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her short story The Eighth Jew (BBC Radio 4) was chosen as Pick of the Week by hip-hop artist Testament, but her short story An Evening with Riz Ahmed (Extra Teeth Magazine) failed to elicit any interest from the real Riz Ahmed. She is SALC’