Category Archives: Alumni News

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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MSt alumna Maya Popa wins 2015 Hippocrates Prize

MSt alumna Maya Popa has won  the 2015 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. “The £5000 First Prize in the Open Category was awarded to teacher and writer Maya Catherine Popa from New York City for a poem inspired by … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse on writing, the course and getting published

Bette Adriaanse on writing, the course and getting published In the second year of the Master in Creative Writing, I started writing what would become my first novel, Rus Like Everyone Else. There was no plan, I only had a … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Daisy Johnson “On getting an offer for my writing …”

On getting an offer for my writing … Daisy Johnson I found out I was going to be a Jonathan Cape author on a Thursday morning at eleven. My agent, Jack Ramm at Eve White, had told me the night … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Daisy Johnson offered two book deal by Jonathan Cape.

MSt alumna Daisy Johnson has offered a two book deal with Jonathan Cape. The first, her short story collection ‘Fen’, will be published in 2016.

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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 … Continue reading

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Video: MSt alumna Agnes Davis talks about her entry for the Medicine Unboxed Creative Prize 2014

Tom de Freston talks to Agnes Davis about her entry for the prize, ‘LaLa’. The winner, decided by judges Melanie Pappenheim, Tom De Freston, John Carey, Rhidian Brook and Philip Gross will be announced at Medicine Unboxed: Frontiers conference on … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Kent DePinto’s produces BBC Radio 4’s “Has the Book a Future?”

Has the Book a Future? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040lpgz

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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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