MSt tutor George Szirtes’ Bad Machine has been shortlisted for the 2013 TS Eliot poetry prize.
Monthly Archives: October 2013
FollowMSt alumnus Jeremy Hughes novel launch: 5 Nov 2013, Oxford
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.
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.
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.
‘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 the Exam Schools on High Street, Oxford.
All are welcome, and refreshments will be provided.
Opening seminar
Friday, 25 October (week 2), 2-3.30 p.m.
Dr. Clare Morgan, Director MSt Creative Writing.
Dr Morgan writes both short and long fiction. Her work has been widely anthologized and commissioned for radio, and her novel A Book for All and None (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011) was published in paperback in February 2012. Dr Morgan recently engaged in the research project ‘Living with Rivers’, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, which explores the role of creative writing in environmental issues. She is a widely published literary critic and a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement.
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
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
Reading by winners of the Parallel Universe Poetry Competition, 7th October 2013
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.