Master's in Creative Writing

Category: Events

  • “How to get Published” session, chaired by MSt Director, Dr Clare Morgan

    Dr Clare Morgan: (LMH and Kellogg College), novelist, literary critic and Director of the MSt in Creative Writing
    Dr Angus Philips: (Exeter), author of The Future of the Book in the Digital Age and Director of Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes
    Caroline Wood: Agent and Director at the Felicity Bryan literary agency
    Juliet Mabey: founder of Oneworld Publications

    Venue: Edmond Safra, Said Business School
    Date: Saturday 19 September
    Timings: 11.45am-1pm Panel discussion and Q&A

    Session description:

    The gateway to publishing fiction has for centuries been guarded by a relatively small number of editors, publishers and magazine proprietors, leaving first-time writers to navigate the dos and don’ts of submission protocol in order to stand out among an ever-growing crowd. Now, with the emergence of self-publishing and digital platforms as legitimate vehicles for new works, what options are available to emerging writers? In this session, our panel of experts will discuss traditional as well as alternative means of getting published – and the best ways to improve your chances of finding the right publisher for your work.

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  • Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Belinda Jack, 14th May 2015

    “Cliché: The Nemesis of Exciting Writing”

    with Professor Belinda Jack

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

    All are welcome and no bookings are necessary

    Writers need an acute attentiveness to language when reading, and a self-consciousness when writing, which together foster a creative use of words. It is only an imaginative use of language that allows for new ideas and for a new understanding of ourselves and the world we live in. We need to be linguistically inventive and ingenious if new insights are to be conceived of, and articulated. And we also need to be aware of language that is no longer fit for purpose. We need to do something about words which have lost their vivacity and lounge lazily on the page. The term ‘verbicide’ (the killing of words) emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. In the twenty-first century it is cliché that needs to be in our sights.

    Belinda Jack’s first two books are on francophone writing. She then wrote a biography of George Sand, George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large and a group biography, Beatrice’s Spell. Her most recent book is a history of women’s reading, The Woman Reader, published by Yale University Press. She is a Student (‘Fellow’) and Tutor in French at Christ Church and is currently Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London. The title of her three-year lecture series is ‘The Mysteries of Reading and Writing. Belinda Jack also writes for a number of periodicals, reviews widely and speaks at literary festivals and on the radio.

    Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan

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

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  • Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Alice Jolly, 5th February 2015

    “Narrative and Anti-Narrative in the Short Story and the Novel”

    with MSt tutor Alice Jolly

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

    All are welcome and no bookings are necessary

    Alice Jolly has published two novels with Simon and Schuster and four of her plays have been produced by the professional company of the Everyman in Cheltenham. She has been commissioned by Paines Plough and her monologues have been performed at the Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden. She teaches creative writing on the MSt at Oxford University and is currently crowd funding for a memoir which will be published by Unbound in autumn 2015. Alice won the 2014 V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize awarded by The Royal Society of Literature.

    Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan

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

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  • Launch of MSt alumna Susie Campbell’s collection “The Bitters”, at Blackwell’s, Oxford, 26th Feb 2015

    MSt alumna Susie Campbell’s collection of prose and collage poems will be launched on 26th February 2015, at Blackwell’s Bookshop in Oxford.

    Admission is free but a ticket is necessary. Contact  events.oxford@blackwell.co.uk or collect a free ticket in store.

    For more information, visit the Blackwell’s Oxford Events webpage.

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