Manchester's literary renaissance Tuesday, November 03, 2009 (13:33:44) Posted by staff With the announcement of the £10,000 Manchester Metropolitan University fiction prize (1,700 entries globally, won by Toby Litt), and the most successful Manchester Literature Festival to date concluding last week, in the wake of the naming of Carol Ann Duffy as poet laureate in May, it's great to be a writer, a publisher, or just a reader in the city at the moment.... Link! Content received from: GotPoetry.com, http://www.gotpoetry.com