Monthly Archives: July 2016

MSt tutor Alice Jolly awarded 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize

(image from PEN Ackerely website) MSt tutor Alice Jolly’s Dead Babies and Seaside Towns (Unbound, 2015) has been awarded the 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize. “Alice Jolly has this evening been announced as the winner of the 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Roopa Farooki shortlisted for Commonword Diversity Writing for Children Prize

MSt tutor Roopa Farooki has been shortlisted for the Commonword Diversity Writing for Children Prize, a prize that encourages diverse characters in children’s fiction, for her  teen novel, Jay Zed Black. The winner will be announced on the 11th of … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Anna Beer’s Fulbright Frontier’s lecture on women composers and their creative communities” now available online

MSt tutor Anna Beer’s Fulbright Frontier’s lecture “Right Place, Right Time: Women composers and their creative communities”.

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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 tutor Jenny Lewis poem in the Shakespeare Liturgy

MSt tutor Jenny Lewis’ commissioned poem, ‘The Tale of the Weaver’s Wife’, is part of a new Shakespeare Liturgy based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The other contributing poets are Laurence Sail (Titania), Michael Symmons Roberts (Demetrius), Sinead Morrissey (Puck) … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Sarah Bakewell recommends for “Summer Reads” in the Financial Times

MSt tutor Sarah Bakwell (and others) has recommended a 2016 summer read (well “more chilly than summery perhaps, but the richest book I’ve read recently”) in the Financial Times.

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MSt tutor Roopa Farooki long listed for the Commonword Children’s Diverse Writing Prize, 2016

MSt tutor Roopa Farooki has been long listed for the Commonword Children’s Diverse Writing Prize, 2016.

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MSt tutor Ben Brown’s play “Three Days in May/3 Dias en Mayo” in Mexico City

MSt tutor Ben Brown’s play 3 Dias En Mayo (Three Days in May) will be performed from 29 July to 25 September 2016 at the Teatro Helenico in Mexico City.  

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MSt tutor Anna Beer’s “Sounds and Sweet Airs” a Financial Times “Summer Read”

“Why is it, asks Anna Beer, that male composers have consistently eclipsed their female counterparts? The solution, she admits, is more complicated than simply rewriting music history “on the principle of add women and stir”. In probing deeper, she has … Continue reading

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