Master's in Creative Writing

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  • Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Kat Sommers, 1 March 2018

    “ Wandering lonely as a cloud: Coping with isolation as a writer ”

    Kat Sommers is a comedy writer based in south London. She has written for the BBC, Sky, and the School of Life, and recently co-wrote a sitcom for Radio 4, Charlotte & Lillian , starring Miriam Margoyles and Helen Monks. She has a TV show about best friends in development and is writing a memoir about pop fandom.

    Mawby Room, Kellogg College,
    62 Banbury Road
    5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm

    All are welcome and no bookings are necessary.

    Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan

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

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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 pm

    Blackwell’s Bookshop, 51 Broad Street, Oxford

    Attendance free, registration required. For more information, visit this page.

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  • Poetry Society Annual Lecture, with Jan Wagner. 20 February 2017

    Jan Wagner Image: Alberto Novelli, Villa Massimo

    The Poetry Society Annual Lecture in partnership with New College Oxford, by the German poet and translator, Jan Wagner.

    The Shedding of Skins and Schemes: a voice of one’s own and the voices of others

    “Jan Wagner is the outstanding German poet of his generation. His lecture, delivered in English, is on influence and the exchange of poetic ideas across borders; of the teachers poets must find for themselves (and then distance themselves from again). Interspersed with readings of some of his own poems, Wagner’s lecture draws on poets such as Rimbaud, Heym and Brecht, Popa, Pound and Hughes, and the poet-translators who have carried their work between cultures.

    Wagner’s collection Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees (Arc), translated by Iain Galbraith, won the Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize 2015. He has translated into German poets including Armitage, MacNeice, Shapcott, Simic and Sweeney.”

    New College, Oxford. Monday 20 February 2017, 7.00 – 8.30 pm

    Tickets free, RSVP to Oliver Fox by email to marketing@poetrysociety.org.uk

    For more information, visit the Poetry Society page.

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  • Sean O’Brien, Visiting Humanitas-Weidenfeld Professor, lectures at St Anne’s on 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th Feb 2017

    The first of four weekly lectures by distinguished poet Sean O’Brien, Visiting Humanitas-Weidenfeld Professor, is on Tuesday 7th February.

    Schedule:

    Tuesday 7 February 2017  ‘For dreams are licensed as they never were’. What becomes of the history poem?

    Tuesday 14 February 2017 Displacement: Irish poetry and poets of Irish descent in Britain.

    Tuesday 21 February 2017   ‘I only am escaped alone to tell thee’ or ‘The Faster We Go the Rounder We Get’.

    Tuesday 28 February 2017 In Conversation with Patrick McGuinness

    The lectures take place at 5.30 in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre at St Anne’s College. The first lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.  All welcome, no need to book.

    Further details.

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