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MSt alumna MJ Holmes’s novella “Don’t Tell the Bees” published by Ad Hoc Fiction

MSt alumna MJ Holmes’s novella Don’t Tell the Bees , which won the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award has been published by Ad Hoc Fiction. The judge of the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award , Michael Loveday, said: “WThe winning novella is a story … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Phoebe Stucks wins Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize 2020

MSt alumna Phoebe Stucks has won the Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize 2020. From the Poetry Society announcement: “The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize is an annual prize for the best poem published in The Poetry Review written by a poet who … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee & MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee in the BookClub Show online

MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee and MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee spoke to the BookClub Show, about Jing-Jing’s Woman’s Prize for Fiction shortlisted novel How We Disappeared.

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MSt alumna Camille Ralphs appointed Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement

MSt alumna Camille Ralphs has been appointed Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement, the first woman ever hold the role. Camille also has a second pamphlet forthcoming, with If A Leaf Falls Press.

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MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse nominated for biennial Victorie Fonds Cultuur Prize

MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse has been nominated for the Netherland’s biennial Victorie Fonds Cultuur Prize in the category Writing. ‘Her imaginative and mysterious prose immediately intrigued the jury.’ https://www.victoriefondscultuurprijs.nl

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MSt alumna Maya Popa runner up for the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2020

MSt alumna Maya Popa is the runner up for whe Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2020. Read more about the prize, Maya, and the other winners here.

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MSt alumna Laura Theis winner of the Mogford Prize for Food & Drink Writing

MSt alumna Laura Theis won the 2020 Mogford Prize for Food & Drink Writing for “The Lift”. The prize was judged by Jeremy Mogford, Stephen Fry and Prue Leith. Read about the prize and Laura, read and download “The Lift” … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Stephanie Scott’s novel “What’s Left of Me is Yours” published by Orion Books

MSt alumna Stephanie Scott’s novel What’s Left of Me is Yours has been published by Orion Books in the UK, and around the world. Some of the reviews (from Orion Books):

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MSt alumna Maya Popa reads for The Paris Review

MSt alumna Maya Popa’s reading of Lisel Mueller is now available online. The announcement from The Paris Review: In our new series of videograms, poets read and discuss the poems getting them through these strange times—broadcasting straight from their couches … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Susie Campbell’s poetry pamphlet “Tenter” published by Guillemot Press.

MSt alumna Susie Campbell’s poetry pamphlet Tenter has been published by Guillemot Press. From the announcement: “Tenter is named after the tenter-frames on which cloth is stretched (using tenter-hooks). The poems weave around the making of the Bayeux tapestry as … Continue reading

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