Secretive Women, Taboos and Dangerous Sex
Michaelmas Term Week 7
Thursday 27^th November 2014
5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm

Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing
Mawby Room, Kellogg College,62 Banbury Road.

All are welcome and no bookings are necessary

Thomas Glave was born in the Bronx and grew up there and in Kingston, Jamaica.  He is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories, Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (Lambda Literary Award, 2005), The Torturer’s Wife (Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist and Lambda Literary Award finalist, 2008) and Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh (2013), recently named a 2014 Lambda Literary Award finalist.  He is editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (Lambda Literary Award, 2008). Glave has been Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT, a 2012 Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and is a 2014 Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the University of Warwick’s Dept. of Hispanic Studies and in the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies.

Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan

http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/CW

An international conference at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford Friday 26 September to Sunday 28 September 2014.

Organized by the ‘What is Women’s Writing?’ Interdisciplinary Research Group, supported and funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH).

This symposium aims to foster dialogue among researchers and practitioners dealing with women’s writing in a variety of fields: transnational writing and writing across cultures; writing across academic disciplines, across the humanities and social sciences, across the arts and sciences; encounters between the critical and the creative, the academic and the popular, art and life, history and life-writing, orality and literacy, collective and individual authorship, analysant and analyst; crossing temporal boundaries: women’s writing of the past impacting on the present, imagining futures for women’s writing.
Full Registration – £80.00
Concession Registration (graduate/unwaged/independent researcher) – £40.00

Conference website with programme ,  online registration and booking.

Kirsty Gunn:
“Writing Music”

Tuesday 13 May 2014

5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm

In what ways does the lyric novel differ from more conventional forms of storytelling? How might the sound of a text influence our response to it? Is reading a process of “hearing” as well as understanding? Kirsty Gunn will be discussing the particular concerns with sound and music that face her as a writer of long and short fiction when creating her texts – with particular reference to her latest work The Big Music, which came out in paperback last year.

Kirsty Gunn is the author of seven works of fiction, including short stories and a collection of fragments and meditations. She is published by Faber and around the world in more than 122 languages. Her latest novel, The Big Music, was shortlisted for the James Tait Black and Impac awards and won the New Zealand Book of the Year 2013. She has a Chair in Writing Practice and Study at the University of Dundee and lives in London and Scotland. Her new book of short stories, Infidelities, will be published by Faber and Faber later this year.

Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan
http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/CW

Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing
Mawby Room, Kellogg College,
62 Banbury Road

All are welcome and no bookings are necessary

Magma Judge’s Prize 

Magma Editors’ Prize  for poems of up to 12 lines,  judged by a panel of Magma Editors comprising Julia Bird, Rob Mackenzie, Ian McEwen, Laurie Smith and Karen McCarthy Woolf.

Entry Fees: £5 for the first poem, £4 for the second and £3 for the third and each subsequent poem.  Magma magazine subscribers benefit from reduced fees.

For more information see http://magmapoetry.com/competition-2/