Category Archives: Alumni News

MSt alumna Maya Popa’s chapbook “The Bees Have Been Canceled” published Feb 2017

MSt alumna Maya Popa’s chapbook, The Bees Have Been Canceled: Poems, has been published by New Michigan Press. ‘this remarkable chapbook [is]…annunciatory and regenerative…continually making anew the world it describes’ (Jamie McKendrick) ‘a terrific new voice in poetry, cerebral, distinctive … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Maya Popa judge for 2017 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine

MSt alumna Maya Popa is to one of the judges for the 2017 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. The other judges are Neal Baer, Jorie Graham, Jackie Kay,  Owen Lewis . “Now in its 8th year, the Hippocrates Prize … Continue reading

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MSt tutor, alumna and student finalists for Aesthetica Award 2017

  MSt tutor Jenny Lewis (Sur le Pont des Arts), alumna Alexandra Strnad (The Eyemouth Tapestry and November) and student Majella Kelly  (Clipping A Cockatiel’s Wings (for Dummies)) were all finalists for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2017.

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MSt alumna Iannoa Mavrou publishes and designs “The Letters Page”

The Letters Page, a digital literary journal in letters edited by Jon McGregor, is now available as a limited edition boxed set published by, and with cover design by, MSt alumna Ioanna Mavrou, in collaboration with Thodoris Tzalavras: “Contents: Letters from: … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s novel nominated for the Clip Carnegie Medal

MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s novel, The Girl of Ink & Stars, has been nominated for the 2016 Clip Carnegie medal. More on the nomination and the award. More on The Girl of Ink & Stars.

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MSt tutor, alumna, and student shortlisted for 2016 Bridport Prize, Poetry

Poems by MSt tutor Caroline Bird, MSt alumna Harriet MacMillan, and student Mary Jane Holmes were short-listed for the 2016 Bridport  Prize. The full short list.

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MSt alumna Elena Kaufman’s collection “Love Bites” to Unbound

MSt alumna Elena Kaufman’s collection Love Bites, has been accepted by Unbound. You can read more about Elena’s book and how to support it by clicking on the below, or by going to the book’s webpage.  

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MSt alumna Alexandra Strnad’s poems in Wasafiri

Two poems by MSt alumna Alexandra Strnad are being published in Wasafiri, Issue 87.

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MSt tutor Jamie Mckendrick and alumna Daisy Johnson on Guardian reads list

MSt tutor Jamie McKendrick (Selected Poems, recommended by William Boyd) and alumna Daisy Johnson (Fen, recommended by Sarah Perry) feature in The Guardian‘s The Best Books for Summer 2016 reading list.    

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MSt alumnus Sam Guglani has new column in “The Lancet”

MSt alumnus Sam Guglani  has a column, “The Notes”, in The Lancet (subscription required) “Seamus Heaney distinguishes between craft and technique in poetry, and so speaks to us in medicine. He suggests that craft is just a “skill of making…deployed … Continue reading

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