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: 6pm, 5th – 8th May 2019
Tickets on sale in March 2019 from https://www.brightonfringe.org/.
More info about the play: http://www.afteraulis.com.
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 be responsible for editing PW’s reviews of poetry collections. She can be reached at mpopa@publishersweekly.com
Popa is a poet and critic whose debut collection of poetry, American Faith, will be published in 2019 by Sarabande Books. Her criticism and nonfiction have appeared widely, including in Poetry, the Times Literary Supplement, and Poets & Writers.“
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.
MSt alumna Alexandra Strnad’s pamphlet, Pilgrims, is being published by Eyewear. It is available to preorder/buy from the Eyewear website
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 Stand magazine.”
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.
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.
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 Muslim Writers Awards competition.
The panel of judges have been tasked with selecting nine winners for this year’s writing competition organised by UK charity Muslim Hands, in association with the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study (University of London). Thousands of children have submitted their writing over the competition’s eight-year history, with forty-five submissions shortlisted from this year’s entrants.
Since 2010 Muslim Hands has encouraged and nurtured the writing talents of thousands of children through creative writing workshops and the annual competition. Winners from this year’s competition will be announced on Saturday 1st December at the iconic Senate House (London) across the Short Story, Poetry, and Journalism categories.”
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?
Readers at this event include:
– Carcanet’s Founder and Editorial Director, Michael Schmidt
– John Clegg (Selected Poems by John Heath-Stubbs, Sept 2018)
– Jane Draycott (Pearl (trans.), Sept 2018)
– Philip Terry (Dictator (a Gilgamesh translation), Oct 2018)
– Robyn Marsack (Selected Poems by Edmund Blunden, Dec 2018)at the Knowledge Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
From the announcement:
Translating Trauma: Creative Responses to War and Conflict
British poet Jenny Lewis and Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh discuss their approaches to writing and translating war poetry. Jenny will show a presentation of her father’s black and white photographs, taken in Iraq during the First World War Mesopotamian Campaign from her book Taking Mesopotamia (Oxford Poets/ Carcanet 2014) and Adnan al-Sayegh will discuss the horror of his time as a young conscript in the Iran Iraq War and subsequent 18 months in an army detention centre (for reading poetry in the barracks), and read from his celebrated epic poem, Uruk’s Anthem.
The session will include a short translation exercise (no previous translation knowledge necessary) and a Q&A with students to further explore issues around creative responses to trauma.
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