The number of judges was increased from three to four in 2011, with short story writers Heather Beck, John Burnside and Alison MacLeod joining Royle on the panel.
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It was launched by Carol Ann Duffy and The Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2009, as the second phase of the annual Manchester Writing Competition (which began in 2008 with the first Manchester Poetry Prize, judged by Duffy, Gillian Clarke and Imtiaz Dharker).
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The 2009 competition was judged by novelists and short story writers Sarah Hall (writer), M. John Harrison and Nicholas Royle.
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The Manchester Writing School launched the second Manchester Fiction Prize in January 2011 with Nicholas Royle once again acting as Head Judge.
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The runners up were Peter Deadman, Vicki Jarrett, Jennifer Mills and Alison Moore.
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