Monthly Archives: October 2013

MSt Tutor George Szirtes shortlisted for the 2013 TS Eliot Prize

MSt tutor George Szirtes’ Bad Machine has been shortlisted for the 2013 TS Eliot poetry prize. More on the TS Eliot prize.

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MSt alumnus Jeremy Hughes novel launch: 5 Nov 2013, Oxford

MSt alumnus Jeremy Hughes’ novel Wingspan will be launched at Kellogg College, 60-62 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PN on Tuesday 5th November 2013 at 7 pm.

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MSt tutor Abi Docherty’s play on Radio 4 Extra, 16th and 17th October 2013

MSt tutor Abi Docherty’s radio play isten to my Inside Mind is on Radio 4 Extra on 16th Oct 2013 at 10am and 3pm; 17th Oct 203at 3pm. More information on it at the BBC.

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MSt Tutor George Szirtes wins Best Translated Book Award (USA), and CLE poetry for children prize

George Szirtes’ translation of Satantango by László Krasznahorkai won Best Translated Book Award (USA), and his In The Land Of Giants won CLPE Prize for poetry for children.

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Podcast: MSt Director Dr Clare Morgan, MSt Alumnus James Benmore, MSt Tutor Sam Thomson, and Samantha Shannon on writing

James Benmore (Kellogg), Samantha Shannon (St Anne’s) and Sam Thompson (St Anne’s) talked about their work as writers at the annual Oxford University Alumni Weekend. You can read up about the event here  or catch up with the conversation online.

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‘What is Women’s Writing?’ The Gender, Literature and Culture Seminar, Oxford, 25th October 2013

Organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Group and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) For Michaelmas Term 2013, the topic is The Creative and the Critical. The programme consists of three seminars and a workshop. Venue: Room 11 at … Continue reading

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Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing: MSt tutor, novelist Rebecca Abrams, 26 November 2013

“Writing Historical Fiction” Seminar Convenor:  Dr Clare Morgan Mawby Room, Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road 5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/creativewriting.php

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Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing: novelist Elanor Dymott, 29 October 2013

“On Writing in Place and in Time” Seminar Convenor:  Dr Clare Morgan Mawby Room, Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road 5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/creativewriting.php

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Reading by winners of the Parallel Universe Poetry Competition, 7th October 2013

7.30 pm, Friday 11 October at the Radcliffe Science Library. For further details contact ceri.lloyd@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

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MSt Alumnus Prajwal Parajuly on 2013 Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist

Prajwal Parajuly’s collection of short stories The Gurkha’s Daughter has been shortlisted for the 2013 Dylan Thomas Prize. More on the Wales Online website.

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