Master's in Creative Writing

Author: MSt Creative Writing

  • Clare Morgan, Director of the MSt, “The Ruffian in the Market Place” at the Oxford Literary Festival, 21 Mar 2013

    Clare Morgan (Director, MSt) and Susan Sellers (Professor, English, St Andrew’s University) on

    The Ruffian in the Market Place: What Do We Read Fiction For?

    “Drawing on literary predecessors as varied as Jane Austen, Henry Miller, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Franz Kafka and P. D. James, Morgan and Sellers will share with the audience the challenges, the solutions, and the excitements of writing such fiction, in relation to their own published and forthcoming work.”

    Thursday 21 March 2013, 4.00 pm

    Venue: Bodleian, Convocation HouseMore information at the Oxford Literary Festival event page.

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  • MSt tutor George Szirtes: new work, 2012/13

    MSt tutor George Szirtes has several recent publications:

    Poetry

    Bad Machine (UK Bloodaxe, 2013)
    Bad Machine (UK Sheeps Meadow, 2013)

    Poems for Children

    In the Land of the Giants (Salt 2012)

    Translation

    Yudit Kiss: The Summer My Father Died (Telegram)
    László Krasznahorkai: Satantango (New Directions, US, TuskarRock, UK)

    Co-edited collection
    In Their Own Words: Contemporary Poets on the Poetry, co-edited with Helen
    Ivory (Salt, 2012)

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  • MSt student Prajwal Parajuly’s short story collection: The Gurkha’s Daughter

    MSt student Prajwal Parajuly’s  The Gurkha’s Daughter: Stories (Quercus, 3 Jan 2013), a collection of stories about Gurkhas, Darjeeling, Kalimpong and the world, was number four on the Amazon “Hot New Releases” on 13 November 2012.

    Update: Prajwal will be reading at the Albion Beatnik Bookshop on 7th February 2013.

    The Lady describes his collection as

    “A collection of finely crafted, vibrant stories that focus on the minutiae of the life of the Nepalese community in their homeland and abroad. Stylistically reminiscent of Raymond Carver, while at the same time opening a door on to an unfamiliar world.”

    The Guardian review speaks of its “energetic play of perspectives” and reviews have appeared in a number of other newspapers and journals.

    Read an interview on Republica with Prajwal while he was doing his MSt.

    Prajwal’s book is available  in bookshops and on Amazon.

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  • The Mays Anthology: call for submissions (closing 2nd Mar 2013)

    The Mays Anthology publishes new student writing and art from Cambridge and Oxford Universities. Submissions for publication in the 2013 edition are open. Special consideration will be given to works that adhere clearly to the theme of PLAY.

    *SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES*

    INDIVIDUAL: No more than three individual submissions in any mode (poetry, fiction, drama, screenplay, graphic novel, the essay, visual arts, or any other genre), up to a total of four A4 pages. Each piece of work should start on a new page.

    COLLABORATIVE: The Mays #21 will emphasise creative collaboration. Each person may submit up to two collaborative works in addition to individual submissions. Collaborative works should be submitted by ONE collaborator, not multiple times by all those involved; nobody may participate in more than two submissions. They can be in any mode or
    modes(interdisciplinary if desired) and each collaborative submission must be no more than three A4 pages.

    FORMATTING GUIDELINES: Literary submissions should be saved as .docx
    or .doc and formatted in Times New Roman font, size 12. Please state
    in your accompanying email which, if any, of your submissions are
    excerpts from longer works.

    HOW TO SUBMIT:
    Email your submissions to mays21submissions@gmail.com before 02/03/2013. Submissions must not have been previously published.

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