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
Poetry
Fiction
What Remains of Us
Frankie Brown
2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal
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?
Katie-Louise Buxton
2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal
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
Billy Gough
2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal
Ruins of Nationhood
Hibah Yaseen
2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal
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
Leah Parkinson
2025-02-21 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal
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
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
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
Keeley Banton
2025-03-07 Issue 4 • 2025 • Grit: The Northern School of Writing Journal