Jo Cerys’ Radio 6 conversation with MSt student Camille Ralphs about the Pendle Witch trials, is now available online. You can also read more about Camille’s “ellegy in 14 spels” on the Emma Press web page.
Category: Events
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MSt tutor Anna Beer on BBC Radio 6
MSt tutor Anna Beer’s conversation with Jo Frost, about Anna’s new book , Sounds and Sweet Airs, is now available to listen to on Radio 6. More information here, and you can listen to the programme online.
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MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s poetry masterclass at Stratford Literary Festival, 29th April 2016
MSt tutor Jane Draycott will be conducting a poetry masterclass at the Stratford Literary Festival.
From the festival website: “A poetry-writing workshop to spark new ideas for beginners and aspiring new poets led by award-winning poet Jane Draycott…
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Fri 29th April 2016
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MSt alumnus Pat Toland and student Madiha Bataineh longlisted for the National Poetry Prize
MSt alumnus Pat Toland and student Madiha Bataineh were longlisted for the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Prize, 2015.
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MSt tutor Alice Jolly’s new novel to Unbound
MSt tutor Alice Jolly’s new novel, Between The Regions Of Kindness is to be published by Unbound in 2016. Proceeds from the book will go to First Story “an amazing charity who change lives through writing“.
You can read more about Alice book and how to support it by clicking on the image above, or by going to the book’s web page
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MSt almuna Bette Adriaanse’s novel “Rus” launched in London
MSt almuna Bette Adriaanse’s novel Rus, published by Unnamed Press, was launched in London on March 3rd .
(all pictures by Andy Baggarley. Thanks to Bridget Arsenault too)
Read more about Rus.
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Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Professor Sabina Murray, 12th May 2016
“Archive to Art Work:The Pains and Pleasures of Historical Fiction“
Professor Sabina MurrayMawby Room, Kellogg College,
62 Banbury Road
5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pmAll are welcome and no bookings are necessary
Sabina Murray grew up in Australia and the Philippines. She is the author of two short story collections, Tales of the New World, a New York Times editor’s choice, and The Caprices, winner of the 2002 PEN/Faulkner award. She is the author of the novels Forgery, A Carnivore’s Inquiry, Slow Burn, and Valiant Gentlemen, forthcoming in November 2016. Murray is a former Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, Bunting Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, Guggenheim Fellow, and Harmsworth Lecturer in American Arts and Letters at the RAI. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Fred Brown Award from the University of Pittsburgh. Murray is currently Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she directs the Creative Writing Program.
Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan
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MSt tutor Sarah Bakewell’s new book “At the Existentialist Cafe” to be published on 3rd March
MSt tutor Sarah Bakewell’s new book At the Existentialist Cafe is to be published by Chatto & Windus on 3rd March, 2016.
“Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. Pointing to his drink, he says, “You can make philosophy out of this cocktail! …”
Read more about the book at
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1089993/at-the-existentialist-cafe/In a related event, Sarah and Nigel Warburton will be talking about “Philosophy in the Bookshop” at Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford on Saturday 19 March, at 11.00 am
http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/stores/oxford-bookshop/events/
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MSt tutor Belinda Jack lecture on Ibsen’s The Doll’s House, London, 26 Jan 2016
MSt tutor, Belinda Jack, who is Gresham Professor of Rhetoric, will be giving a lecture at the Museum of London on “Theatre and Individualism: Henrik Ibsen, ‘A Doll’s House’”
Tuesday, 26 January 20166:00pmMuseum of LondonEntry open to all, no reservation required“A Doll’s House is a three-act play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Its first performance was at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, in Denmark, on 21 December 1879. It is often considered to be a feminist play as Nora, the heroine, leaves her husband and children intent on self-discovery. Ibsen, on the other hand, denied any conscious attempt to provide propaganda for the women’s rights movement and claimed that his concern was for the description of humanity. If the play is about the need to find the self and to live true to that self, then what is the nature of individualism that the play promotes?”For more information, see the Gresham House website. -
MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse to tour US cities with her novel
With the support of Dutch Culture USA and her publisher, Unnamed Press, MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse is to tour several US cities.
