WRAP anthologies
Explore WRAP's anthologies, featuring short stories and poetry written by NTU students and staff.
The Red Post Box: a creative writing competition and anthology for students and staff
For the 2024 WRAP creative writing anthology, we’re asking for something a bit different.
We’d like you to write a letter of up to 400 words (no minimum) and post it to us.
Your letter could be to someone you know, telling them about something real or imaginary. It could be to someone famous or someone infamous, in the past or future. It could be a thank you letter, a love letter or a letter of complaint. You could write to a country, a government, or anything else. For example, you could write a letter to an illness, a currency or a kind of food. It’s up to you.
We’d really like you to write your letter by hand and post it in our red post box, or upload a photo of your letter from your phone. However, if you really do need to type it, you can.
We will read and consider all the letters we receive for publication, but you can send an anonymous letter if you want to.
We need your letters by Friday 22 March 2024.
Join us to write in person at our Post Office from 12–2 pm on Thursday 22 February, Thursday 29 February, Thursday 7 March, Thursday 14 March and Thursday 21 March next to Café Newton, Newton Building, NTU City Campus, Nottingham, NG1 4BU.
An anthology of the winners will be launched at our WRAP Live! end of year showcase on Tuesday 14 May, with a range of prizes for staff and student winners.
Come along to one of our writing workshops at Clifton or City campuses for some inspiration.
Notes To Self 2023 anthology
WRAP's Notes to Self anthology is inspired by featured writer Emilie Pine's award-winning book Notes to Self. We asked Nottingham Trent University students and staff to write about a moment, event or experience in their life.
Copies of the anthology are available from NTU libraries or by emailing WRAP@ntu.ac.uk
All About Love anthology
WRAP's All About Love anthology was inspired by the novel In the End, It Was All About Love by Musa Okwonga, a WRAP featured writer. We asked students and staff at Nottingham Trent University to reflect and write about what they love, whether a place, a person or a pastime.
So Far, So Good 2022 Anthology
WRAP's third anthology celebrates the work written by our WRAP community. It's "so far, so good" because there's much more to come.
Read So Far, So Good 2022 Anthology online.
Anthology 2021: Easyrider
Anthology 2021: Easyrider is the second anthology from WRAP. Written by NTU students and staff, it includes 16 original short stories. Each story was hand-picked by a panel of judges from more than 40 entries to WRAP's short story competition, which challenged writers to compose 250 words about a bus ride.
The travel theme was inspired by WRAP's Term Two featured writer Ashley Hickson-Lovence and his debut novel The 392. In his foreword for the anthology, Ashley says: "This bus-themed brief was no easy feat but this anthology has talent in abundance. These perceptive pieces are full of flair and heart and leave you aching for more. My advice: savour every story."
Anthology 2020: The Story of Us
WRAP's first anthology, Anthology 2020: The Story of Us, celebrated UNESCO World Poetry Day with 21 poems for 2021. It was written and produced by students taking part in WRAP, exploring the connections between the past, present and future in poems reflecting on love and loss, family and faith, time and hope.
Munashe Dziva, a Year Two Psychology student, reflected on fresh starts in her poem 'Past', which was inspired by Beyoncé. She told us: "When I first joined WRAP I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect. I was just excited to be part of a writing community, but that community slowly turned into our home of words, book shelves and emotion. We wanted to create writing that connected us but still stood out to our individual personalities, hence the story of us."
It is fantastic to see students across the University flex their creative muscles and come together at a time of such isolation to make something new."
Dr Becky Cullen, WRAP Programme Manager