Patrick Hughes has been announced as the winner of the new North West Original New Voice Award and Residency, launched in recognition of the Prize’s Manchester home, for Leave the Morning to the Morning, a story exploring family dynamics, speaking the truth, and the right to live and die on your own terms which the judges praised for its ‘intimate exploration of the wrenching complexities of mental health.’

Leave the Morning to the Morning by Patrick Hughes

Patrick Hughes is a playwright, dramaturg and script reader based in Liverpool, who seeks to support and develop new writers in the North-West of England. Leave the Morning to the Morning is a story of heartbreak, speaking the truth and the right to live and die on your own terms.

The judges said: “An intimate exploration of the wrenching complexities of mental health, this play grapples with how we care for each other and ourselves, and what it means to have the dignity of choice in the midst of impossibly painful decisions.”