Category Archives: Alumni News

MSt alumna Jana Casale’s novel “The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky” published by Knopf on 17th April 2018

MSt alumna Jana Casale’s novel The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky will be published by Knopf on 17th April 2018. Jana will be appearing in Cambridge (MA), Brooklyn, and San Francisco (see below for details) From the press release: … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s first adult novel to be published by Picador

After a “hotly contested” auction, MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s first adult novel is to be published by Picador. From The Bookseller: “Award-winning children’s author Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s first foray into adult fiction has gone to Picador for a significant … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Maya Popa’s “You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave” published

MSt alumna Maya Popa’s poetry collection You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave has been published by New Michigan Press “This is a work of seething precision. In these poems, hope is a meticulous, meditative state—a method of forensic searching … Continue reading

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MSt aluma Elena Kaufman’s “Love Bites” to be serialised on The Pigeonhole

“An intriguing and diverse set of storiesAn earnest and thoughtfully written collectionDeftly crafted, these stories are bursting with engaging characters.” MSt alumna Elena Kaufman’s short story collection Love Bites is to be serialised on The Pigeonhole. From the announcement: “Foreigners, … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis & alumna Romola Parish at Science and Poetry event with St. Hilda’s College, Oxford

Tickets are now on sale for the third Science and Poetry event at St. Hilda’s College, organised by MSt tutor Jenny Lewis with Sarah Watkinson of St. Hilda’s. The event, on 9 Jun 2018, will feature poets Carrie Etter and … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s “The Island at the End of Everything” shortlisted for Costa and Blue Peter awards, and nominated in The Guardian’s Best Books of 2017

MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Island at the End of Everything has been shortlisted for the Costa award and the Blue Peter award. It has also been named by Frances Hardinge as one of  The Guardian’s Best Books of … Continue reading

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“Foreign Goods: A Selection of Writing by British East Asian Artists”, edited by, and including a play by, MSt alumna Jingan Young published by Oberon Books

Foreign Goods: A Selection of Writing by British East Asian Artists , curated and edited by MSt alumna Jingan Young, will be published by Oberon Books on 19 January 2018. It is now available for pre-order. From the announcement: This … Continue reading

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Plays by MSt alumna Jingan Young & MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee in “Foreign Goods Last Forever 3″, 28 January 2018

Plays by MSt alumna Jingan Young and MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee feature in Jingan Young’s Pokfulam Rd Production’s “Foreign Goods Last Forever 3”   More information at Pokfulam Rd Productions.

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MSt alumna Cressida Peever’s play ‘The Sound I Heard at Three Seventeen’, part of Theatre503’s Rapid Write Response on 26th & 27th November

MSt Alumna Cressida Peever’s 10-minute play ‘The Sound I Heard at Three Seventeen’ will be performed alongside six others responding to ‘The Dark Room’ as part of Theatre503’s Rapid Write Response. At Theatre503 in Battersea, London on Sunday 26th and … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Katherine MacInnes’ series of four children’s books to be published by English Rose

MSt alumna Katherine MacInnes’ series of four children’s books, the Johnny Gorilla books, is to be published by English Rose on 1st December 2017. “…a new series of four, full colour books based on a real gorilla who came to … Continue reading

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