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MSt alumna Daisy Johnson’s short story “Blood Rites” has been longlisted for the 2017 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. The shortlist will be announced on March 19th, and the winner on April 27th.
Author: MSt Creative Writing
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MSt alumna Daisy Johnson longlisted for Sunday Times EFG Short Story award
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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 quiet, seething world of four women in the subcontinent.
Sarvat Hasin was born in London and grew up in Karachi. She studied politics at Royal Holloway, and wrote her debut novel whilst studying for a Creative Writing masters at the University of Oxford. She has also worked as a bookseller and at publishing houses. Her short stories, essays and poetry have appeared widely in journals and anthologies including The Mays Anthology, Diverse Quarterly, Catweazle Magazine and Dawn Newspaper.“Fri 17 March 2017
7:00 – 8:30 pmBlackwell’s Bookshop, 51 Broad Street, Oxford
Attendance free, registration required. For more information, visit this page.
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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 author and co-founder of the award, Sunny Singh (chair), YA author Catherine Johnson, author and poet Alex Wheatle MBE, poet and broadcaster Musa Okwonga and Booker-longlisted fiction writer Yvvette Edwards.
For more about the prize and the shortlist, visit the Jhalak Prize website. The winner will be announced on 17th March 2017.
For more about The Girl of Ink and Stars, visit the publisher’s page.
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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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