Category Archives: Alumni News

Ali Smith and Etgar Keret contribute to MSt Alumna Ioanna Mavrou’s Matchbook series

Narratives by Ali Smith and Etgar Keret are fourth edition of Matchbook Stories, edited by MSt alumna Ioanna Mavrou. Book Ex Machina is based in Nicosia, Cyprus, and run by author Thodoris Tzalavras and editor Ioanna Mavrou. Read more about the … Continue reading

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MSt alumnus Sam Guglani “On the Given Word” in the Lancet

MSt alumnus Sam Guglani’s piece “On the Given Word” has been published in the Lancet. “She’s admitted with pneumonia and within days is with us on the intensive care unit, needing renal filtering and inotropes. One night her airway occludes … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee & others: Halloween Reading, Albion Beatnik, Oxford, 31 Oct 2015

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MSt alumna Susie Campbell’s pamphlet “The Frock Enquiry” launch, 23rd October 2015

MSt alumna Susie Campbell’s second pamphlet, published by Annexe Magazine, will be launched in London: 23rd October, at Vout-O-Rennes.  7pm. The event that  will include a celebration of Annexe Magazine over the years.  (entry free) Oxford: 8th November,  Albion Beatnik … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Jennifer Thorp’s libretto premieres at the Britten Theatre, 14th-15th Oct 2015.

The Choice is part of a collaboration between Vocal Futures and The English Concert to showcase Handel in a modern frame. Two ancient goddesses compete over the future of a young, privileged soldier: MSt alumna Jennifer Thorp wrote the libretto … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Maya Popa on Irish poetry and other matters for the Poetry Foundation

MSt alumna Maya Popa’s  article on Irish poetry has appeared in Poetry, and another piece of her is on Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog. Read Forever Writing from Ireland and A Kind of Seduction  

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s collaboration with Tom de Freston to Bloomsbury

MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s retelling of the Orpheus myth, a poetic graphic novel in collaboration with artist Tom de Freston has is to published by Bloomsbury in 2016. More on that soon.

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MSt alumna Maya Popa finalist for the 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship

MSt alumna Maya Popa is one of the eighteen finalists for the 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. On 1st September, five of these will be given fellowships, which are awarded “to young poets in the U.S. … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Roopa Farooki’s novel recommended by Inspires, the alumni magazine of University of Oxford department of Politics

Inspires magazine describes Roopa Farooki’s novel, The Good Children as “”Evocative of generational change this book probes into the saga of the South Asian migrant experience, and portrays a world of both compassion and violence, and love and loss.” Read … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Maya Popa talks about poetry, medicine & the 2015 Hippocrates Prize

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