Author Archives: MSt Creative Writing

MSt tutor Roopa Farooki on judging panel for Young Muslim Writers Award

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 … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jane Draycott reading at the British Library, 26 Nov 2018

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? To … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis at the Stanford University Centre, Oxford, 20th Nov 2018

MSt tutor Jenny Lewis will be at the Stanford University Centre in Oxford on the 20th of November 2018, 5 – 7 pm. From the announcement: Translating Trauma: Creative Responses to War and Conflict British poet Jenny Lewis and Iraqi … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis’ “Gilgamesh Retold” launches in London, Oxford, 3rd, 4th Oct, 11th Nov 2018

Jenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgamesh’s city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were allowed to brew beer and keep taverns … Continue reading

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MSt alumni Daisy Johnson & Kiran Millwood Hargrave shortlisted for Blackwell’s Book of the Year

MSt alumni Daisy Johnson and Kiran Millwood Hargrave have been shortlisted for Blackwell’s Book of the Year for Daisy’s Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Everything Under (Jonathan Cape) and Kiran’s The Way Past Winter (Chicken House). https://www.thebookseller.com/news/johnson-and-millwood-hargrave-battle-it-out-blackwells-book-year-885076

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MSt alumni Majella Kelly and Art Allen First and Third in Ambit Poetry Competition

MSt alumni Majella Kelly and Art Allen have won First and Third Prizes respectively, in the Ambit Poetry Competition. The poems, on the theme of ‘Home’ and judged by Malika Booker, are available to read online.

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s Guardian podcast available

The Guardian’s podcast with MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Jessie Burton talking about feminist fairytales is available online. From the announcement: “On this week’s show, we’re talking feminist fairytales with Jessie Burton and Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Burton’s latest book, … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Maya Popa interviews MSt tutors Jane Draycott & Jenny Lewis for Carcanet blog

Jane Draycott and Jenny Lewis: Recalibrating the Classics MSt alumna Maya Popa interviewed MSt tutors Jane Draycott & Jenny Lewis for Carcanet blog, which is now available to read online. From the announcement; “This week on the blog, Jenny Lewis and Jane Draycott talk … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Roopa Farooki’s work in three new anthologies

MSt tutor Roopa Farooki’s work features in three new anthologies coming out in 2018: The Asian Writer, A Decade (Dahlia Press), to be launched at the Asian Writer Festival 2018 (Oct 20th) Paper Mirrors, (Crocus/Commonword), to be launched at the … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Helen Mort and student Phoebe Stuckes read at the Festival Hall, 23 Oct 2018

MSt tutor Helen Mort and student Phoebe Stuckes will be reading at Festival Hall  Oct 23rd in And the Air Sang: 20 Years of Foyle Young Poets an event celebrating 20 years of The Poetry Society’s award, and featuring readings … Continue reading

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