MSt tutor Jenny Lewis (Sur le Pont des Arts), alumna Alexandra Strnad (The Eyemouth Tapestry and November) and student Majella Kelly (Clipping A Cockatiel’s Wings (for Dummies)) were all finalists for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2017.
MSt tutor Jenny Lewis (Sur le Pont des Arts), alumna Alexandra Strnad (The Eyemouth Tapestry and November) and student Majella Kelly (Clipping A Cockatiel’s Wings (for Dummies)) were all finalists for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2017.

The Letters Page, a digital literary journal in letters edited by Jon McGregor, is now available as a limited edition boxed set published by, and with cover design by, MSt alumna Ioanna Mavrou, in collaboration with Thodoris Tzalavras:
“Contents:
Letters from: George Saunders, Clare Wigfall, Éireann Lorsung, Joanna Walsh, Andrey Kurkov, Naomi Alderman, Sam Riviere, Cassie Gonzales, Kevin Barry, Karen McLeod, Claudia Reed, S E Craythorne, Maria Papas, and Ken Sears.”
The Letters Page Vol. 1, Edited by Jon McGregor
Book design by Ioanna Mavrou & Thodoris Tzalavras
Boxed set contains book and loose-leaf letter reproductions
Limited Edition: 500 copies
Book Ex Machina, Nicosia, November 2016
ISBN 978-9963-9858-6-9
€ 29.95

MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s novel, The Girl of Ink & Stars, has been nominated for the 2016 Clip Carnegie medal.
More on the nomination and the award.
More on The Girl of Ink & Stars.
Poems by MSt tutor Caroline Bird, MSt alumna Harriet MacMillan, and student Mary Jane Holmes were short-listed for the 2016 Bridport Prize.
The full short list.