Master's in Creative Writing

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  • Conference: Women Writing Across Cultures: Past, Present and Future, 26 – 28 September 2014

    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.

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  • MSt tutor Jenny Lewis’ presentation “Finding my father in Mesopotamia”, 15 May 2014

    at the National Archives,The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU.

    15 May 2014

    14:00-15:00

    “Through a presentation of original photographs, poetry and witness statements from her latest collection, Taking Mesopotamia (which was heavily based on research at The National Archives) Jenny vividly and movingly links the 2003-2011 Iraq war to its roots in the First World War campaign, traces her own roots to the father she never knew and shows how to turn historical and family research into poetry.”

    More details at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/events/finding-my-father-in-mesopotamia.htm

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  • Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Kirsty Gunn, 13 May 2014

    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

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  • MSt Alumnus Prajwal Parajuly launches “Land Where I Flee”, Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford. 18th February 2014

    MSt alumnus Prajwal Parajuly’s Oxford launch of his newest book, Land Where I Flee

    Tuesday, February 18th at 19:00
    Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford
    51 Broad Street
    Oxford OX1 3BQ

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