Monthly Archives: December 2018

MSt alumna Daisy Johnson interview on The Guardian Culture

There was a lot of crying’: youngest Booker prize nominee on writing her first novel. MSt alumna Daisy Johnson interviewed for Guardian Culture From the announcement “The author made headlines this year after becoming the youngest person to be shortlisted … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Rowena Cooper’s monologue to be performed at Free Fall event, London, 13th Dec 2018

MSt alumna Rowena Cooper’s monologue ‘And This is the Funny Thing’  will be performed by The Founding Fall Company as part of their annual Free Fall event in London on 13th December 2018, 6.30 pm Draper Hall Hampton Street (junction … Continue reading

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MSt alumnus Nabin Chhetri wins second prize in the 2018 Vancouver Tagore Society Poetry Contest

MSt alumnus Nabin Chhetri’s poem “Paper Boat” has been awarded second prize in the Vancouver Tagore Society Poetry Contest 2018. More about the prize and the poem.  

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MSt alumna Rowena Cooper’s play “After Aulis” at Brighton Fringe, 5 – 8 May 2019

  After a 4 night run at The Attic theatre in Stratford in July 2018, MSt alumna Rowena Cooper’s play, After Aulis, is to be staged at the Brighton Fringe Festival from 5th-8th May 2019.   Venue: The Quadrant Time: … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Maya Popa appointed Publishers Weekly’s poetry reviews editor

MSt alumna Maya Popa has been appointed poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly.  From the announcement: “Maya C. Popa has joined Publishers Weekly as its new poetry reviews editor, effective immediately. Popa succeeds Alex Crowley in the post and will … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Morgan Christie’s “Variations on a Lobster’s Tale” published as ALP Chapbook

MSt alumna Morgan Christie’s Variations on a Lobster’s Tale won the Alexander Posey Chapbook contest in 2018, and has been published by the New Plains review. You can read more about the prize here, and find the chapbook on Amazon.

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MSt alumna Alexandra Strnad’s pamphlet “Pilgrims” with Eyewear, 2018

MSt alumna Alexandra Strnad’s pamphlet, Pilgrims, is being published by Eyewear. It is available to preorder/buy from the Eyewear website

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MSt alumna Jingan Young wins 2018 Bi’An Award for Poetry

MSt alumna Jingan Young’s poem “Plum Nest” has won the 2018 Bi’An Award for Poetry. About the prize: “The Bi’an Award is a new writing competition open to UK-based writers of Chinese heritage and supported by Arts Council England, Arvon and … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood-Hargrave’s “The Way Past Winter” Sunday Times’ Children’s Book of the Year

MSt alumna Kiran Millwood-Hargrave’s The Way Past Winter is the Sunday Times’ Children’s Book of the Year 2018 for the age group over 12. More on this (behind paywall)

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MSt alumna Daisy Johnson’s “Everything Under” on Guardian and Lithub’s Books of the Year lists

MSt alumna Daisy Johnson’s Booker-shortlisted novel Everything Under is one of the Guardian’s “Best Books of the Year“, and one of Lithub’s Favourite Books of 2018.

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