Category Archives: Alumni News

MSt alumnus Patrick Toland shortlisted for 2020 Hippocrates Poetry Prize

MSt alumnus Patrick Toland’s poem “By Virtue of the Merits of her Son” has been shortlisted for 2020 FPM-Hippocrates Health Professional Poetry award. The winners in the 2020 Hippocrates will be announced by the judges during the second Poems to Live … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee’s “How We Disappeared” longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction

MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee’s novel How We Disappeared has been longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. The twelve books on the longlist are: THE NARROW LAND by Christine Dwyer Hickey (Atlantic) THE PARISIAN by Isabella Hammad … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee’s “How We Disappeared” longlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction

MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee’s How We Disappeared has been longlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction. The shortlist will be announced on 22nd April and the winner on 3rd June The longlist is (links to Guardian reviews): Djinn Patrol … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Sophy Roberts interviewed about her book, “The Lost Pianos of Siberia” on Music Matters on Radio Three

MSt alumna Sophy Roberts was interviewed about her book The Lost Pianos of Siberia on Music Matters on BBC Radio Three. The Lost Pianos of Siberia is published by Doubleday in the UK (February 2020), and Grove Press in the … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Stephanie Scott’s novel “What’s Left Of Me Is Yours” to be published on 21st April, and listed in The Observer

MSt alumna Stephanie Scott’s novel What’s Left Of Me Is Yours will be published on 21st April, simultaneously in the USA, Canada, UK & Commonwealth. Stephanie has also been named one of The Observer’s ‘Ten Best Debut Novelists for 2020’ … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s novel “The Mercies” published in the UK & the US.

MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s novel The Mercies has been published in the UK & the US. From the UK announcement (Picador): “The Sunday Times Bestseller‘A gripping novel . . . Beautiful and chilling’ – Madeline Miller, author of Circe … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Majella Kelly’s “City Poems” out on 20th, 21st Feb 2020

Announcement from the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre and ignition Press: “The Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre is delighted to announce the publication of three new ignitionpress poetry pamphlets: City Poems by Mia KangHush by Majella KellyHinge by Alycia PirmohamedWe will be launching them next … Continue reading

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MSt alumni Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Daisy Johnson in conversation, Blackwells, Oxford, 8th Feb 2020

MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave will be in conversation with fellow alumna Daisy Johnson at Blackwells in Oxford, 8th Feb 2020. They will be talking about Kiran’s new novel, The Mercies. From the announcement: “‘A gripping novel inspired by a … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jane Draycott and MSt alumnus Luke Allen win TLS Mick Imlah Poetry Prizes

MSt tutor Jane Draycott and MSt alumnus Luke Allen have won second and third TLS Mick Imlah Poetry Prizes, respectively. You can read the poems and about the prize here.

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MSt alumnus Arthur Allen’s verse novel “The Nurseryman” published by Kernpunkt Press

MSt alumnus Arthur Allen’s verse novel The Nurseryman has been published by Kernpunkt Press.From the announcement: “The Nurseryman is a verse novel told in polyphony as the collected account of a 17th Century voyage to Meta Incognita – the absolutely unknown … Continue reading

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