Future literary stars shine in milestone anthology
The Mechanics’ Institute Review is produced, edited and published by students on the MA Creative Writing
Literary anthology The Mechanics’ Institute Review (MIR), which is produced, edited and published by students on Birkbeck’s MA Creative Writing, celebrates its tenth anniversary with the launch of Issue 10 on 26 September 2013.
MIR10 showcases the brightest emerging talent from the highly-esteemed creative writing programme at Birkbeck. The issue also features exciting new work from award-winning authors Evie Wyld, Adam Marek, Colin Grant and Jackie Kay, and a foreword by the Creative Writing Programme Director Russell Celyn Jones.
This compelling collection takes the reader around the globe: a quest across Cyprus, a mission to India, segregation in South Africa, adolescence in Australia. Each story offers a unique perspective on the world and our place in it. See with eyes of a carp, hold last rites for a fox, wonder what’s real in a story of writers. A tsunami, a child’s game – both can change lives in MIR’s extraordinary literary anthology. These short stories leave lasting impressions, and show what storytelling today is all about. Their distinctiveness and variety eloquently disprove the notion that creative writing programmes produce homogenised writing.
Distribution
MIR10 is available in print format from Amazon, local independent bookshops throughout the London area and from selected branches of Waterstones, and in e-book format from Amazon.
Book readings
Following the launch of MIR10, there will be a series of readings in October at venues including the Review Bookshop and Waterstones Gower Street.
Book readings will take place at:
- Review Bookshop, 131 Bellenden Road, Peckham, SE15 4QY
3 October 2013, 7:00pm-9:00pm - Waterstones Gower Street
7 October 2013, 6:30pm-8pm - Hubbub, The Harrison, 28 Harrison Street, Kings Cross, WC1H 8JF
14 October 2014, 7:00pm-9:00pm - Big Green Bookshop,Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green, N22 6BG
Monday 21 October, 7pm
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9575833-0-6
E-book ISBN: 978-0-9575833-1-3