Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

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

    Keeley Banton (University of Salford)

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

  • A Carmine Coat

    James Hodson (University of Salford)

    A Carmine Coat

  • Rambling on a Pier

    Antonia Doxey (University of Salford)

    Rambling on a Pier

  • Long Monday - The Fragment Through Film

    Steven Burrows (University of Salford)

    Long Monday - The Fragment Through Film

  • Bug Grrrl

    Adele Louise Pennington (University of Salford)

    Bug Grrrl

  • Issue 3 • 2024 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

    Issue 3 • 2024 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal

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. 

Featured Articles

Adele Louise Pennington

Bug Grrrl

Steven Burrows

Long Monday - The Fragment Through Film

Paul Foster

The Middle Seat

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

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


Fiction

What Remains of Us

What Remains of Us

Frankie Brown

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

The Devil

The Devil

Gethin Griffith

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

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

Poetry

Leaving

Leaving

Caoimhe Scholes

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

Non-Fiction

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

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

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

Five Imperatives For Feminism

Five Imperatives For Feminism

Annie Bellamy

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

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

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

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

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