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The latest edition of the annual SALC Flash Fiction and Non-fiction Competition invited undergraduate students to submit an original and unpublished piece of writing of less than 250 words.<\/p>\n
The winners were announced at a ceremony on Wednesday 11 December, with prizes presented by Professor Olutayo Adesina, distinguished Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (FNAL):<\/p>\n
Abubakar Sesay \u2013 Black is a Bruise<\/a> \u2002\u2002<\/em> Dr Sheena Kalayil, Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and a member of the judging panel, said:<\/p>\n \u201cOur students once again showed the breadth of creativity in our School, as evidenced by the high quality of all our entrants. We chose four winners, which was no easy task – and congratulate these students on the power, eloquence beauty of their writing.\u201d<\/p>\n Sheena\u2019s fellow judge, Dr Ingrid Hanson, added:<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a pleasure to be part of the judging process for this award and to read the varied, powerful and moving texts \u2013 fiction, non-fiction and poetry – that came in as part of the competition, communicating a rich range of experiences, emotions, relationships, snapshots of history, politics, aspirations, ideas and viewpoints in the context of Black History Month. The winners made particularly strong use of their chosen literary form.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The latest edition of the annual SALC Flash Fiction and Non-fiction Competition invited undergraduate students to submit an original and unpublished piece of writing of less than 250 words. The winners were announced at a ceremony on Wednesday 11 December, with prizes presented by Professor Olutayo Adesina, distinguished Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6791,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/salc-making-a-difference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/salc-making-a-difference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/salc-making-a-difference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/salc-making-a-difference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/salc-making-a-difference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/salc-making-a-difference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/salc-making-a-difference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/salc-making-a-difference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/salc-making-a-difference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/salc-making-a-difference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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