Author Archives: MSt Creative Writing

Impress Prize for New Writers: closing date 17 June 2013

The Impress Prize is open to fiction and nonr fiction by anyone aged 18 and over who has NOT published a book-length publication before. Closing Date: 17 June 2013 Administrative charge: £10. Details on Impress Prize website.

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Poet Don Paterson to read at Woodstock: 22 May 2013

Don Paterson’s poetry has won awards including the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, and (twice) the TS Eliot Prize. Most recently, Rain won the 2009 Forward prize. A Fellow of … Continue reading

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Aesthetica Creative Writing competition: closing date 31 August 2013

The competition invites  “imaginative work that pushes the boundaries of the two categories for entry: Poetry and Fiction”. More information at www.aestheticamagazine.com/creativewriting

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William Hazlitt Essay Prize (Notting Hill Editions): closing date 1 August 2013

Notting Hill Editions has launched an annual literary prize for the best essay in the English language, of between 2,000 and 8,000 words, published or unpublished, on any subject.  The chair of judges is author and journalist Harry Mount. The … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Nikita Lalwani’s book The Village available in paperback

MSt tutor Nikita Lalwani’s book The Village is now available in paperback.

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Mslexia Women’s Pamphlet Competition, closing date 17 June 2013

For short collections of 20-24 pages of 18-20 pems by women poets who have not previously had a full-length collection published. 1st prize: Publication by Seren Books, plus £250, 25 complimentary copies of the pamphlet and a 10 per cent … Continue reading

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MSt alumni Paul Sweeten and Luke Smith launch literary journal The Harlequin

MSt graduates Paul Sweeten and Luke Smith have launched The Harlequin, a new quarterly literary journal featuring poetry, fiction, interviews and personal essays. The first issue features poetry from MSt tutors Jane Draycott and Geore Szirtes, and also work from … Continue reading

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Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition, closing date 17 June 2013

For unpublished poems of any length and in any style by women poets. 1st Prize: £2,000 Judge: Kathleen Jamie Closing date: 17 June 2013 Entry fee: £7 for up to three poems. See http://www.mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/pcomp_active.php for more information and competition rules.

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MSt tutor Abi Docherty’s play on Radio 4, May 20th

MSt tutor Abi Docherty’s play Edward Edward will be broadcast on Radio 4 on May 20th at 2.15 pm.

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2nd Parallel Universe poetry competition, closing date 13 Sept 2013

The Radcliffe Science Library, in association with the Museum for the History of Science. Theme: Science and Medicine as its theme Open to all members of Oxford University – students, staff and alumni. Closing date 13th September 2013.  Further details … Continue reading

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