Monthly Archives: November 2018

MSt tutor Roopa Farooki on judging panel for Young Muslim Writers Award

MSt tutor Roopa Farooki has been named a judge on the panel for Young Muslim Writers Award 2018. From the announcement: “The judging panel comprised of 31 award-winning poets, writers, and journalists have been announced for the 8th annual Young … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jane Draycott reading at the British Library, 26 Nov 2018

MSt tutor Jane Draycott will be reading at the British Library on Monday 26 Nov 2018 for Carcanet’s “What makes a Classic?” From the announcement: One generation’s classics look quite different from another’s. So how do you define them? To … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis at the Stanford University Centre, Oxford, 20th Nov 2018

MSt tutor Jenny Lewis will be at the Stanford University Centre in Oxford on the 20th of November 2018, 5 – 7 pm. From the announcement: Translating Trauma: Creative Responses to War and Conflict British poet Jenny Lewis and Iraqi … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis’ “Gilgamesh Retold” launches in London, Oxford, 3rd, 4th Oct, 11th Nov 2018

Jenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgamesh’s city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were allowed to brew beer and keep taverns … Continue reading

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MSt alumni Daisy Johnson & Kiran Millwood Hargrave shortlisted for Blackwell’s Book of the Year

MSt alumni Daisy Johnson and Kiran Millwood Hargrave have been shortlisted for Blackwell’s Book of the Year for Daisy’s Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Everything Under (Jonathan Cape) and Kiran’s The Way Past Winter (Chicken House). https://www.thebookseller.com/news/johnson-and-millwood-hargrave-battle-it-out-blackwells-book-year-885076

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