Alumna, Rebecca Tamas, has won this year's Manchester Writing Competition, with her poems 'Julian of Norwich'; 'Theresa of Ãvila'; 'Hildegard of Bingen'; 'Simone Weil'; and 'Marguerite Porete'. Rebecca studied English and Creative Writing, including the module Practice of Poetry. She is published by Salt Publishing. The University press release celebrating Rebecca is here.