Author Archives: MSt Creative Writing

MSt alumna Sarvat Husain’s novel “This Wide Night” launch, 17th March, Oxford

MSt alumna  Sarvat Hasin’s debut novel, “This Wide Night” will be launched at Blackwell’s Bookshop in Oxford on 17th March 2017. “A retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Little Women’, but transported to 1970s Karachi, this stunning new novel presents a … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s “The Girl Of Ink And Stars” shortlisted for inaugural Jhalak Prize

The Jhalak Prize “seeks to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers, and the overall winner will be presented with a prize of £1,000. The shortlist consists of fiction, YA, non-fiction, debuts, short stories and genre.” This year’s judges are … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Sabyn Javeri’s novel “Nobody Killed Her” launched at Karachi Literature Festival

  MSt alumna Sabyn Javeri’s novel Nobody Killed Her (HarperCollins, 2017) was launched at Karachi Literature Festival on Saturday 11th February 2017. The novel is available to pre-order on Amazon.

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Poetry Society Annual Lecture, with Jan Wagner. 20 February 2017

Jan Wagner Image: Alberto Novelli, Villa Massimo The Poetry Society Annual Lecture in partnership with New College Oxford, by the German poet and translator, Jan Wagner. The Shedding of Skins and Schemes: a voice of one’s own and the voices … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Catherine Higgins-Moore’s “Strange Roof” to be published in May 2017

  Catherine Higgins-Moore’s Strange Roof by Finishing Line Press in May 2017, in the New Women’s Voices Series. ‘Catherine Higgins-Moore’s use of language to embolden and communicate experience inspires and excites. She is not afraid of anything. Her confident gritty … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Maya Popa’s chapbook “The Bees Have Been Canceled” published Feb 2017

MSt alumna Maya Popa’s chapbook, The Bees Have Been Canceled: Poems, has been published by New Michigan Press. ‘this remarkable chapbook [is]…annunciatory and regenerative…continually making anew the world it describes’ (Jamie McKendrick) ‘a terrific new voice in poetry, cerebral, distinctive … Continue reading

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Sean O’Brien, Visiting Humanitas-Weidenfeld Professor, lectures at St Anne’s on 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th Feb 2017

The first of four weekly lectures by distinguished poet Sean O’Brien, Visiting Humanitas-Weidenfeld Professor, is on Tuesday 7th February. Schedule: Tuesday 7 February 2017  ‘For dreams are licensed as they never were’. What becomes of the history poem? Tuesday 14 … Continue reading

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Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, 2 February 2017

“Tango in Stanzas: The Path from Page to Stage” Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch Mawby Room, Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road 5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm All are welcome and no bookings are necessary. Is there a difference between a performance poet … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch shortlisted in the 2016 Live Canon International Poetry Competition

“Spitfire Kitchen” by MSt tutor Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch was shortlisted for the 2016 Live Canon International Poetry Competition. More on the shortlist, the judge and the winner.

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MSt alumna Maya Popa judge for 2017 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine

MSt alumna Maya Popa is to one of the judges for the 2017 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. The other judges are Neal Baer, Jorie Graham, Jackie Kay,  Owen Lewis . “Now in its 8th year, the Hippocrates Prize … Continue reading

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