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Michael Amherst

Michael Amherst is a writer and critic. He is a graduate of the UEA creative writing MA and is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories. He also campaigns on the issue of sexual assault in prison: working with Just Detention International and the Howard League's Independent Commission on Sex in Prisons

March 2021

  • Richard Wilson as Victor Meldrew

    Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2021: Michael Amherst on One Foot in the Grave

    The nominee on 12 weeks shielding with the classic 90s sitcom about one man’s war against the world

March 2012

  • Exeter College Oxford

    Cif belief
    Exeter College should not welcome these Christian fundamentalists

    Michael Amherst
    Michael Amherst: Returning my degree to Oxford University was a protest against the platform offered to the extreme group Christian Concern

March 2010

  • Cif is four
    Rape is not just a women's issue

    Michael Amherst
    Michael Amherst: Cif is four: It is no longer acceptable to pretend that rape and sexual assault are only committed by men against women
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