Monthly Archives: July 2020

MSt alumna Phoebe Stucks wins Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize 2020

MSt alumna Phoebe Stucks has won the Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize 2020. From the Poetry Society announcement: “The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize is an annual prize for the best poem published in The Poetry Review written by a poet who … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee & MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee in the BookClub Show online

MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee and MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee spoke to the BookClub Show, about Jing-Jing’s Woman’s Prize for Fiction shortlisted novel How We Disappeared.

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MSt tutor Helen Mort’s “Poetry Please” for BBC Radio 4 available till 31st July 2020

MSt Tutor Helen Mort’s dedicated edition of BBC R4’s Poetry Please is available on BBC Sounds till 31st July, 2020. “Helen Mort … she chooses her favourite poems. Including works by Wordsworth, Norman MacCaig and Karen McCarthy Woolf. “

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MSt alumna Camille Ralphs appointed Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement

MSt alumna Camille Ralphs has been appointed Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement, the first woman ever hold the role. Camille also has a second pamphlet forthcoming, with If A Leaf Falls Press.

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MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse nominated for biennial Victorie Fonds Cultuur Prize

MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse has been nominated for the Netherland’s biennial Victorie Fonds Cultuur Prize in the category Writing. ‘Her imaginative and mysterious prose immediately intrigued the jury.’ https://www.victoriefondscultuurprijs.nl

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MSt alumna Maya Popa runner up for the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2020

MSt alumna Maya Popa is the runner up for whe Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2020. Read more about the prize, Maya, and the other winners here.

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MSt tutor Jamie McKendrick’s Poem on the Underground “Out There”

View the poem at Poems on the Underground

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MSt tutor Ella Hickson appointed Associate Artist at the Old Vic

MSt tutor Ella Hickson has been announced as the Old Vic Theatre’s new Associate Artist, hosting Creatives’ Corner instagram live chat, Wednesdays at 3pm. From the Old Vic’s website: “We are delighted to announce award-winning playwright Ella Hickson as our … Continue reading

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