Category Archives: Alumni News

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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Fortnightly Spoken Word event, London, organised by MSt alumnus Pat Cash

Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month, at Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 7XB. Doors open 8 pm, sign up between 8 and 9, readings from 9 pm. Everyone gets 5 minutes to share their own … Continue reading

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MSt alumnus James Benmore signing books, Blackwell’s, Oxford. 7th Dec 2013

MSt alumnus James Benmore will be at Blackwell’s in Oxford on Saturday 7th December 2013, between 12 noon and 2 pm to sign copies of his debut novel Dodger. Other authors present will be Samantha Shannon, author of The Bone … Continue reading

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