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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis’ collaboration “Let Me Tell You What I Saw” published by Seren Books

Let Me Tell You What I Saw ,a collaboration by Adnan Al-Sayegh, MSt tutor Jenny Lewis, and Ruba Abughaida is to be published by Seren Books From the announcement: Let Me Tell You What I Saw is the first ever … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Mariah Whelan’s poem “Viaduct” featured by Aesthetica

MSt alumna Mariah Whelan’s poem “Viaduct” was the featured poem of the day over at Aesthetica. From the announcement: “the love i do to you is Whelan’s debut novel-in-sonnets. It tells the love story of ‘He’ and ‘She’. Once lovers … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Tina Pepler’s Royal Literary Fund podcast

MSt tutor Tina Pepler spoke with MSt tutor Jane Draycott for the Royal Literary Fund podcast series Writers Aloud. “…about the responsibility to real lives when fictionalising traumatic experiences, how the internet can’t beat talking to people for stories you … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Madiha Bee’s poetry collection “The Lightworkers” published by Pinyon

MSt alumna Madiha Bee’s poetry collection The Lightworkers has been published by Pinyon Publishing. “These are poems that will not just ‘awaken the soul’ but all the senses too. Madiha Bee’s playful and richly vivid illustrations illuminate a poetics of … Continue reading

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MSt alumnus Prajwal Parajuly’s novel listed for Emile Guimet and France’s First Novel award.

MSt alumnus Prajwal Parajuly’s nove Land Where I Flee, translated as Fuir et Revenir, by Benoîte Dauvergne, has been long listed for the Emile Guimet Prize and for the Prix du Premier roman (First Novel Award) 2020 About the Emile … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Phoebe Stucks wins Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize 2020

MSt alumna Phoebe Stucks has won the Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize 2020. From the Poetry Society announcement: “The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize is an annual prize for the best poem published in The Poetry Review written by a poet who … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee & MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee in the BookClub Show online

MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee and MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee spoke to the BookClub Show, about Jing-Jing’s Woman’s Prize for Fiction shortlisted novel How We Disappeared.

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MSt tutor Helen Mort’s “Poetry Please” for BBC Radio 4 available till 31st July 2020

MSt Tutor Helen Mort’s dedicated edition of BBC R4’s Poetry Please is available on BBC Sounds till 31st July, 2020. “Helen Mort … she chooses her favourite poems. Including works by Wordsworth, Norman MacCaig and Karen McCarthy Woolf. “

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MSt alumna Camille Ralphs appointed Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement

MSt alumna Camille Ralphs has been appointed Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement, the first woman ever hold the role. Camille also has a second pamphlet forthcoming, with If A Leaf Falls Press.

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MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse nominated for biennial Victorie Fonds Cultuur Prize

MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse has been nominated for the Netherland’s biennial Victorie Fonds Cultuur Prize in the category Writing. ‘Her imaginative and mysterious prose immediately intrigued the jury.’ https://www.victoriefondscultuurprijs.nl

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