Category Archives: Alumni News

MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee’s novel “How We Disappeared” to be published by Oneworld

(image from The Bookseller) From The Bookseller: “Oneworld is to publish a “searing” novel set in occupied Singapore by Oxford graduate Jing-Jing Lee. Publisher Juliet Mabey bought World English rights to How We Disappeared from Nelle Andrew at PFD. How … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Marie Gethins win Dorset Fiction Award

MSt alumna Marie Gethins’ short story “The Old Man” has won the 2017 Dorset Fiction Award. Read about the prize, and read the story and an interview with Marie: “One piece of advice? Listen and keep an open mind.”  

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MSt alumna Romola Parish reads at the Oxfordshire Museum, 15 July 2017

MSt alumna Romola Parish reads at the Living Landscapes exhibition, 15 July 2017, the Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock Romola Parish, who graduated from the MSt programme in 2016, is currently  Poet in Residence at the Historic Landscape Classification Project at Oxfordshire County … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Cassie Gonzales to be Emory University Writing Fellow, 2017-19

MSt alumna Cassie Gonzales is to be the fiction postgraduate writing fellow at the  Emory University Creative Writing Program from fall 2017 to spring 2019.

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MSt alumna Maya Catherine Popa’s “The Bees Have Been Cancelled” UK Poetry Book Society’s Summer Pamphlet Choice

MSt alumna Maya Catherine Popa’s chapbook The Bees Have Been Cancelled has been selected by the UK Poetry Book Society as their 2017 Summer Pamphlet Choice. From the PBS announcement: “The poems in The Bees Have Been Canceled are ravenous, … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017

MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Girl of Ink & Stars is the overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s  Book Prize 2017.  It is also the winner in the category Younger Fiction. From the Waterstone’s website: “…we’re proud to announce Kiran … Continue reading

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Plays by MSt alumna Jingan Young & MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee in “Foreign Goods Last Forever 2: Visions of England”, 24th, 25th April 2017

Plays by MSt alumna Jingan Young and MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee feature in Jingan Young’s Pokfulam Rd Production’s “”Foreign Goods Last Forever 2: Visions of England”” From the announcement: “After a sell out show at Theatre503 in November of 2016, … Continue reading

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MSt alumnus James Benmore launches paperback of third Dodger novel at Albion Beatnik, Oxford, 21 April

MSt alumnus James Benmore, who won the A.M.Heath Prize, 2010,  will be launching the third novel in his Dodger trilogy – Dodger of the Revolution – at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore on Friday 21 April, 2017, from 7.30-9.30pm. James will … Continue reading

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MSt alumnus James Ellis’ novel “The Wrong Story” launch, Bath, 6 April 2017

MSt alumnus James Ellis’ novel The Wrong Story will be launched at Topping & Company in Bath on 6 April 2017. Venue The Bookshop, The Paragon, Bath, BA1 5LS Doors open 7.30pm Start time 8pm Price range £6 – 7 … Continue reading

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MSt alumnus Rory Gleeson reading at Anthony Burgess Foundation 28 March

MSt alumnus Rory Gleeson is one of three debut writers reading at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation From the Foundation’s announcement: “… novelists Rory Gleeson and Alys Conran, and poet Joey Connolly. Roddy Doyle wrote of Gleeson’s debut, ‘Rockadoon Shore is … Continue reading

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