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  • Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Emma Jones, 5th March 2015

    “The Medium of Poetry”

    with MSt tutor Emma Jones

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

    All are welcome and no bookings are necessary

    Emma Jones’ first book, The Striped World, was published by Faber & Faber in 2009, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Queensland Premier’s Award for Best Collection, and the Anne Elder Award, and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, among others. She has written the libretto for City Songs, a contemporary oratorio, with composer Eriks Esenvalds, which premiered at The Round House in London with vocalist Imogen Heap. Emma has held writing fellowships in Cambridge, the Lake District, Rome and Riga, and is at work on a second book. She tutors in poetry on Oxford’s MSt in Creative Writing.

    Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan

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

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  • MSt Tutor Wendy Brandmark launches novel, The Stray American. London,13 December 2014

    MSt tutor Wendy Brandmark’s new novel The Stray American, will be launched in London on Saturday 13 December at 7.30pm

    Venue: October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AL.

    Cost: Free, but book your places with bernadette@hollandparkpress.co.uk.

    “The Stray American is set in 2003, and tells the story of Larry Greenberg escapes from his corporate law job in Boston to teach in a seedy American college near London’s Waterloo Station. We follow Larry, a flawed but engaging character, on his journey in search of a soul mate and a sense of purpose.”

    More details from Holland Park Press

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  • Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: : Elleke Boehmer, 28 October 2014

    “The World in a Grain of Sand”: Writing Shorter and Longer Narrative

    Michaelmas Term Week 3
    Thursday 28th October 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.

    Elleke Boehmer is a novelist, critic and Professor of English at Oxford University specialising in African and Indian literatures in English. She is the author of four novels, including Screens again the Sky (shortlisted for the David Higham Prize, 1990), Bloodlines (shortlisted for the SANLAM prize, 2000), and Nile Baby (2008). She has published monographs, editions and anthologies, amongst others, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1995, 2005) and Stories of Women (2005). Her biography Nelson Mandela (2008) has been widely translated and her edition of Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys was a 2004 bestseller. She is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, and Professorial Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. In 2014-5, she will serve as a judge for the Man Booker International Prize.

    Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan

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

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  • Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Thomas Glave, 27 November 2014

    Secretive Women, Taboos and Dangerous Sex
    Michaelmas Term Week 7
    Thursday 27th 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

     

     

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