MSt alumnus Prajwal Parajuly’s nove Land Where I Flee, translated as Fuir et Revenir, by Benoîte Dauvergne, has been long listed for the Emile Guimet Prize and for the Prix du Premier roman (First Novel Award) 2020
About the Emile Guimet Prize
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 doesn’t yet have a full collection. The winner is announced in the summer issue of The Poetry Review each year.
The latest winner, chosen by Fiona Benson, is Phoebe Stuckes for her poem, ‘Thus I became a heart-eater’, which was published in The Poetry Review in the Winter 2019 issue.”
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.
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. “
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.
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.’
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.
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 new Old Vic Associate Artist. Every Wednesday at 3pm, Ella will be leading conversations on Instagram Live with emerging talent from across different creative disciplines as we gain an insight into what it means to be working in theatre today.”
Visit the Creatives’ Corner.
MSt alumna Laura Theis won the 2020 Mogford Prize for Food & Drink Writing for “The Lift”.
The prize was judged by Jeremy Mogford, Stephen Fry and Prue Leith.
Read about the prize and Laura, read and download “The Lift” , or listen to it (produced by The Story Player, read by Ian Wilson-Soppitt).
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