This programme showcases the work of the MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam
University and celebrates ten years of its flagship publication, Matter.
Katharine Towers, Tony Williams and Carolyn Waudby are three MA Writing
alumni who now have successful collections. Katharine Towers's pamphlet
Slow Time won the university's Ictus prize and her collection The Floating Man
was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Tony Williamss collection,
The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street was shortlisted for the
Portico Prize for Literature. Both Tony's and Katharine's collections were
also shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Carolyn Waudby
joint-edited the very first Matter, has a sold-out collection Dreams of
Defiance, and was a prizewinner in Mslexia and Ilkley poetry competitions.
They'll each read a fifteen minute selection of their work, supported by
short readings from current students.
The four current students who will read have work in The North, Smiths Knoll,
Poetry London, Iota, Cake, Wasafiri and elsewhere,
as well as poems in Matter,
and have won several poetry prizes.