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MSt tutor John Retallack to direct “As You Like It” at Corpus Christi College, 10th – 13th May

MSt Creative Writing tutor John Retallack is directing a production of As You Like It at Corpus Christi College. The play will be performed both indoors and outdoors in the college Gardens,  Cloisters,  Chapel and  Dining Hall. “The older characters … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou film “Cypriot Fiddlers” at Wolfson College, 2nd May 2017

MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou’s  film “Cypriot Fiddlers” will be screened at Wolfson College, on 2nd May 2017. “The Cypriot Fiddler is an attempt to trace the life stories of a dying class of traditional musicians on both sides of the … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Cassie Gonzales to be Emory University Writing Fellow, 2017-19

MSt alumna Cassie Gonzales is to be the fiction postgraduate writing fellow at the  Emory University Creative Writing Program from fall 2017 to spring 2019.

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MSt alumna Maya Catherine Popa’s “The Bees Have Been Cancelled” UK Poetry Book Society’s Summer Pamphlet Choice

MSt alumna Maya Catherine Popa’s chapbook The Bees Have Been Cancelled has been selected by the UK Poetry Book Society as their 2017 Summer Pamphlet Choice. From the PBS announcement: “The poems in The Bees Have Been Canceled are ravenous, … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jane Draycott reads at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival, 6 May 2017

MSt tutor Jane Draycott will be reading from “Pearl” and “The Occupant” at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival on the 6th of May 2017, at 5 pm. From the festival website: ‘Part of the same 14th-century manuscript as Sir Gawain and the Green … Continue reading

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Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Prof Tabish Khair, 11th May 2017

“Thinking in Stories: Or why the process of reading literature is the antidote to fundamentalism” Tabish Khair Mawby Room, Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road 5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm All are welcome and no bookings are necessary Born and … Continue reading

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Plays by MSt alumna Jingan Young & MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee in “Foreign Goods Last Forever 2: Visions of England”, 24th, 25th April 2017

Plays by MSt alumna Jingan Young and MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee feature in Jingan Young’s Pokfulam Rd Production’s “”Foreign Goods Last Forever 2: Visions of England”” From the announcement: “After a sell out show at Theatre503 in November of 2016, … Continue reading

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MSt alumnus James Benmore launches paperback of third Dodger novel at Albion Beatnik, Oxford, 21 April

MSt alumnus James Benmore, who won the A.M.Heath Prize, 2010,  will be launching the third novel in his Dodger trilogy – Dodger of the Revolution – at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore on Friday 21 April, 2017, from 7.30-9.30pm. James will … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis collaboration “Writing Mesopotamia” events at the Ashmolean, 1st April

MSt tutor Jenny Lewis and Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh celebrate the final stages of their four-year, Arts Council-funded ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ collaboration with two events at the Ashmolean Museum on Saturday 1st April, 2017 ‘Who Can Climb the Sky?’ and the … Continue reading

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MSt alumnus James Ellis’ novel “The Wrong Story” launch, Bath, 6 April 2017

MSt alumnus James Ellis’ novel The Wrong Story will be launched at Topping & Company in Bath on 6 April 2017. Venue The Bookshop, The Paragon, Bath, BA1 5LS Doors open 7.30pm Start time 8pm Price range £6 – 7 … Continue reading

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