MSt alum Bette Adriaanse’s new novel, What’s Mine, is coming out with US publisher Unnamed Press this August.

MSt alum Bette Adriaanse’s new novel, What’s Mine, is coming out with US publisher Unnamed Press this August.

 

There will be several launch events, as follows:

AUGUST 15, 6PM UK time, ONLINE: Bette joins Caoilinn in Conversation for Chicago bookstore Exile in Bookville.

Details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caoilinn-in-conversation-with-bette-adriaanse-tickets-686659987507?aff=oddtdtcreator

AUGUST 16, 7PM, LOS ANGELES, CA: North Fig Books with Gallagher Lawson.

Details: https://northfigbookshop.com/events/?page=1

AUGUST 22, 7PM, SAN FRANCISCO, CA: The Interval at Long Now Foundation with Chelsea T. Hicks, Brian Eno, Aqui Thami and Margaret Levi.

Details: https://longnow.org/ideas/radical-sharing/

AUGUST 25, SAN FRANCISCO, CA: The Internet Archive.

Details: find details on www.betteadriaanse.nl soon

 

“WHAT’S MINE is a surprising and deep work with a persistent quiet momentum carrying the reader back-and-forth in time and space across the slivers of four interlocking lives. It is totally engaging.”

—BRIAN ENO

 

“Bette Adriaanse is becoming a major literary novelist in the best European tradition. She has the down-and-out life experiences of the early Orwell, the desperate humor of Flann O’Brien, the prose immediacy of Beckett, and the avalanche of bureaucracy of Kafka. WHAT’S MINE is a stellar achievement of depicting the absurdist brutality of contemporary urban capitalism where nothing but narcissism and arbitrary outcomes rule.”

—ALAN N SHAPIRO

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MSt alumnus Martin Jago’s poetry collection, Photofit, is published in the UK today.

MSt alumnus Martin Jago’s poetry collection, Photofit, is published in the UK today. More information about the book is available here: http://www.pindroppress.com/books/Photofit.html

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Congratulations to MSt alum Sam Moore

MSt alum Sam Moore’s new book, Search history, is now available from Queer Street Press (https://queerstreetpress.com/Menu).

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Congratulations to Aisha Hassan

Orion Fiction has acquired MSt alum Aisha Hassan ‘s début novel The Boy Who Built Lahore and one other title in a six-figure deal. Charlotte Mursell, publishing director, pre-empted UK and Commonwealth rights from Hellie Ogden at Janklow & Nesbit UK in under 24 hours. US rights have been sold at auction to Alison Callahan at Simon & Schuster and translation rights have sold at auction in Spain (Almuzara) and the Netherlands (Mosaiek). Orion will publish in May 2025.  See https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/rights/orion-fiction-pre-empts-hassans-heartbreaking-debut-in-six-figure-two-book-deal for more information.

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50 States of Mind

Alum Ryan Bernsten’s book 50 States of Mind: A Journey to Rediscover American Democracy is being published in the UK and the states with Bite-Sized Books. Ryan began the work as his year two project on the course.

50 States of Mind: A Journey to Rediscover American Democracy is a work of travel nonfiction in the style of Alexis de Tocqueville that takes readers on a long and winding journey through all 50 states to explore the complexities of today’s America. Leading with the desire to listen and overcome preconceived notions, Bernsten ultimately offers a hopeful vision for the future of America as he embarks on a search for meaning and reflects on what it means to be American. The companion podcast “50 States of Mind,” featured in Condé Nast Traveler, showcases live interviews from the journey and is available on all podcast platforms. 

One can download the audiobook on Audible with a free trial or credit, or save 10% on Lantern Audio’s website with code ListenFirst10. One can also pre-order the US hardcover here (released June 2023) or order the UK paperback or ebook on Amazon. Visit 50statesofmind.org for more info.

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Course Director Dr Clare Morgan appearing at the Oxford Literary Festival on 31 March 2023

On 31 March at 6pm, MSt Course Director Dr Clare Morgan will be in conversation with fellow writer Susan Sellers, discussing how and why the radically experimental and pioneering writers Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield continue to inspire contemporary writing. They’ll be relating their discussion to their own recently published works of fiction, Scar Tissue and Firebird: a Bloomsbury Love Story.  

Further information about this and other events taking place as part of the Oxford Literary Festival can be found here.

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Course Director Dr Clare Morgan in conversation with Tim Pears in Oxford on 2 March

MSt Course Director Dr Clare Morgan will discuss her writing with fellow short fiction writer Tim Pears, at Waterstones in Oxford on Thursday 2nd March.

For more information and to book a ticket click here.

 

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Dr Clare Morgan giving seminar on ‘Writing the Short Story,’ 24th November at Kellogg College, Oxford

Dr Clare Morgan, Director of the MSt in Creative Writing, will be giving a seminar on ‘Writing the Short Story’ at the Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing on Thursday 24th November.

The session will take place in the Mawby Room at 5.00pm (refreshments) for a 5.30pm start. All are welcome and there is no need to book.

Dr Morgan’s stories have been widely anthologized and commissioned by BBC Radio 4, and her new collection, Scar Tissue was published by Seren in September 2022. 

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MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s ‘The Claim’ is The Guardian’s Poem of the Week

‘The Claim,’ from Jane Draycott’s recently published fifth collection, The Kingdom, has been selected by Carol Rumen’s as Poem of the Week in The Guardian

Also in The Guardian, David Morley wrote that Jane’s work demonstrates, “a patient intelligence of practice, and concision of address, not only in every poem … but in the very philosophy of perception informing her poetics.” Of her previous collection, he wrote, “I’ve waited some time to read something this intelligent, this sensuous and this crystalline. In fact The Night Tree is the finest collection I’ve read for ages. What are you waiting for?”

 

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MSt tutor Jamie McKendrick reading from his recent poetry collection in Oxford 20 November

Oxford’s Woodstock Bookshop will be hosting its first in-store poetry event on 20 November, when MSt tutor Jamie McKendrick will be joined by Jennie Feldman to give readings from their most recent collections. Jamie will be reading from Anomaly (Faber & Faber) and The Years (Arc Publications) while Jennie will read from No Cherry Time (Arc Publications).

Entry is free, the event starts at 18:30 and tickets must be booked here.

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