Grit: the journal of The Northern School of Writing at the University of Salford

Grit showcases student work from The Northern School of Writing at The University of Salford. In this biannual journal you will find our best student work in poetry, short story, the novel, screenplay, non-fiction, essay and everything inbetween. 

  • Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

    Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal


Poetry


Leaving

Leaving

Caoimhe Scholes

2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

Fiction


The Devil

The Devil

Gethin Griffith

2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

What Remains of Us

What Remains of Us

Frankie Brown

2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

I Am You

I Am You

Orlaigh Joyce

2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

The Reluctant Gangster

The Reluctant Gangster

Paul Foster

2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

Non-Fiction


Can what you wear change how you feel?

Can what you wear change how you feel?

Katie-Louise Buxton

2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

Five Imperatives For Feminism

Five Imperatives For Feminism

Annie Bellamy

2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

Meet Julia Sixsmith, owner of Hindley's only Hedgehog Hospital

Meet Julia Sixsmith, owner of Hindley's only Hedgehog Hospital

Billy Gough

2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

Ruins of Nationhood

Ruins of Nationhood

Hibah Yaseen

2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

Modernist Concerns in German Expressionist Cinema

Modernist Concerns in German Expressionist Cinema

Hadiqa Ali

2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

Capitalist Realism and the Politics of Fertility

Capitalist Realism and the Politics of Fertility

Leah Parkinson

2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

Echoes of Memory: transforming loss into myth through autofiction.

Echoes of Memory: transforming loss into myth through autofiction.

Alicia Kahn

2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

A Man on the Inside

A Man on the Inside

Sedge James

2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

Doppelganger: a trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

Doppelganger: a trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

Ava Sweetman

2025-03-07 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

The figure of the angry black woman in Candice Brathwaite's I Am Not Your Baby Mother

The figure of the angry black woman in Candice Brathwaite's I Am Not Your Baby Mother

Keeley Banton

2025-03-07 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

Scripts


Curthose: Sons of the Conqueror

Curthose: Sons of the Conqueror

Jack Lawton

2025-02-28 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal