Author Archives: MSt Creative Writing

MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s collaboration with Tom de Freston to Bloomsbury

MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s retelling of the Orpheus myth, a poetic graphic novel in collaboration with artist Tom de Freston has is to published by Bloomsbury in 2016. More on that soon.

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MSt tutor Marti Leimbach’s novel “Age of Consent” to be published in 2016

MSt tutor Marti Leimbach’s new novel Age of Consent is to be published by  Penguin Random House in the US and Fourth Estate/Harper Collins  in the United Kingdom. Read what Marti has to say about it on her website.

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MSt alumna Maya Popa finalist for the 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship

MSt alumna Maya Popa is one of the eighteen finalists for the 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. On 1st September, five of these will be given fellowships, which are awarded “to young poets in the U.S. … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou’s “Cypriot Fiddler” project launches Kickstarter crowdfunding appeal

MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou’s collaboration with film maker, Constantinos Terlikkas, ‘The Cypriot Fiddler’,  which collects the stories of some of the last surviving professional folk violinists in Cyprus, both Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot, has launched a Kickstarter crowd funding … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Alice Jolly on surrogacy in The Times, 20 July 2015

Helen Rumbelow of The Times interviewed MSt Tutor Alice Jolly about her book “Dead Babies and Seaside Towns”. You can read the article in The Times (behind paywall).

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MSt tutor Roopa Farooki’s novel recommended by Inspires, the alumni magazine of University of Oxford department of Politics

Inspires magazine describes Roopa Farooki’s novel, The Good Children as “”Evocative of generational change this book probes into the saga of the South Asian migrant experience, and portrays a world of both compassion and violence, and love and loss.” Read … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Maya Popa talks about poetry, medicine & the 2015 Hippocrates Prize

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MSt tutor Jane Draycott on characters and personae poets meet (in their writing)

  MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s podcast for the Royal Literary Fund on the characters and personae poets meet in their writing is now available at the RLF site (http://www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/wa_episode21/)

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“Other People’s Countries” by MSt tutor Patrick McGuiness is Wales Book of the Year, 2015

Other People’s Countries by MSt tutor Patrick McGuiness is the Wales Book of the Year for 2015. Announcing the award, by Literature Wales and judged this year by Alex Clark, Tessa Hadley and Paul Henry,  Paul Henry said: “The stylistic … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Maya Popa wins 2015 Hippocrates Prize

MSt alumna Maya Popa has won  the 2015 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. “The £5000 First Prize in the Open Category was awarded to teacher and writer Maya Catherine Popa from New York City for a poem inspired by … Continue reading

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