Master's in Creative Writing

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  • Creative Writing Seminar Series: Anna Beer

    Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing
    Michaelmas Term Week 3:
    Tuesday 23 October 2012
    4.45pm (refreshments) for 5.15pm

    Stopforth Metcalfe Room, Kellogg College,
    62 Banbury Road

    Anna Beer:
    “Johnny and Bess: Narrative and Gender”

    Anna Beer is the author of two biographies: Bess: The Life of Lady Raleigh, Wife to Sir Walter and John Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot. Her talk will consider issues of gender and narrative in life-writing from different eras up to and including the present, and address the sometimes complex relationship between writer, (biographical) subject and reader.

    Seminar Convenor:  Dr Clare Morgan

    http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/CW

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  • BBC: The Writer’s Prize

    BBC Audio and Music has joined forces with BBC Writersroom to launch The Writer’s Prize: a prestigious new writing opportunity for radio drama and comedy writers.

    The BBC is looking to commission the best new ideas across the Radio 3 & 4 networks. We are looking for bold, original new stories with characters that will engage, challenge and entertain an audience.

    The Writer’s Prize will be judged by Jeremy Howe (Commissioning Editor, BBC Radio 4 Drama), Caroline Raphael (Commissioning Editor, BBC Radio 4 Comedy and Radio 4 Extra) and Kate Rowland (BBC Creative Director of New Writing), who will be joined by the award-winning writer Roy Williams OBE (The Interrogation, Lift Off, Clubland, Sucker Punch).

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunities/the-writers-prize

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  • Inktears Short Story Competition

    Now open for entries – winner’s prize £1,000
    Deadline: 30 November 2012
    Type: Short story (UK + International)

    Prizes: £1,000, £100, £25 x 4, plus all prize-winners get their story published to the InkTears Readers and consideration for a short story collection/anthology publication.   Full results will be announced by 30 March 2013.

    Fee: £6.00.  Length:1000-3000 words, any theme

    NB: stories may have been previously published (prior to 30 April 2012) or previously unpublished. www.inktears.com for full details

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  • Player-Playwrights meetings, London, every Monday.

    Player-Playwrights meet every Monday in central London, currently at the Phoenix Artist Club in Charing Cross Road, and give feedback on scripts. For more info see http://www.playerplaywrights.co.uk/

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