The text of MSt tutor Roopa Farooki’s keynote speech on Saturday 21st October 2017 at the inaugural Asian Writer Festival is now available online.
Category: Tutor News
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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis reads at Armistice Day Requiem and Poetry Reading, Albion Beatnik Bookshop, Oxford, 11 Nov 2017
MSt tutor Jenny Lewis will be reading with Adnan al-Sayegh, Peter J. King, Jude Cowan Montague, Chinta Kallie, Ruba Abughaida and Jenyth Worsley at the Armistice Day Requiem and Poetry Reading at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore, from 7.30-9.30pm on Saturday 11 November to remember all victims of war, spoken in several languages. The event will feature a new requiem based on Wilfred Owen’s poem, ‘Futility’, composed by Janet Davies. . -
MSt tutor Caroline Bird shortlisted for 2017 TS Eliot prize
MSt tutor Caroline Bird’s collection In these Days of Prohibition has been shortlisted for 2017 TS Eliot prize.
The winner of the Prize will be announced on Monday 15th January 2018.
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MSt tutor Rebecca Abrams on “The Jewish Journey: 4,000 Years in 22 Objects” in The Observer
MSt tutor Rebecca Abrams’ article complementing her book, The Jewish Journey: 4,000 Years in 22 Objects, is in The Observer of 15th October 2017.From The Observer :
A new book by Rebecca Abrams traces the journeys of the Jewish people through 22 objects in Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. Here, she tell us some of their stories“ -
Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Helen Mort, 22 November 2017
“Failsafe: the value of getting it wrong”
Helen MortMawby Room, Kellogg College,
62 Banbury Road
5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pmAll are welcome and no bookings are necessary
Helen Mort was born in Sheffield. She has published two poetry collections with Chatto & Windus, ‘Division Street’ (2013) and ‘No Map Could Show Them’ (2016). She won the Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection in 2014. Helen has a volume of short stories forthcoming from Wrecking Ball and a novel forthcoming from Chatto. She is a core creative tutor on Oxford’s MSt in Creative Writing. She also teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan
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MSt tutor Helen Mort’s BBC radio commissions, “Millstone” and “Give me Space Beneath my Feet” available to listen to online,on iPlayer
MSt tutor Helen Mort’s two new radio commissions, broadcast on BBC Radio3, are now available to listen to online on iPlayer:
The Essay – Cornerstones: Millstone http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04n84h6
Between The Ears – Give me Space Beneath my Feet http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b096g27p (part of last weekend’s ‘Contains Strong Language‘ Festival)
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MSt tutor Rebecca Abram’s “The Jewish Journey: 4000 years in 22 objects from the Ashmolean Museum” out now
MSt tutor Rebecca Abram’s The Jewish Journey: 4000 years in 22 objects from the Ashmolean Museum has been published by the Ashmolean Museum, (ISBN 978-1-910807-03-3).
Read more about it/buy it online from the Ashmolean online shop.
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MSt tutor Roopa Farooki to be keynote speaker at the Asian Writer Festival, 21 October, Royal Asiatic Society
MSt tutor Roopa Farooki will be the keynote speaker at the Asian Writer Festival on 21 October, at the Royal Asiatic Society. Roopa will also be doing a panel on relationships in literary fiction. Twitter link and eventbrite links below.
https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/907529273208078336
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-asian-writer-festival-tickets-37684746090/amp
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Rehearsed reading of MSt tutor Ben Brown’s play “The Promise”, London, November 2nd
There will be a rehearsed reading of MSt tutor Ben Brown’s play The Promise on November 2 at the JW3 in Hampstead. The reading will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Jonathan Freedland,
From the JW3 announcement:
“On the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, JW3 presents a rehearsed reading of The Promise, a play dramatising this momentous historical moment.
November 2, 1917. The Balfour Declaration is signed, signalling the British government’s support for a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. It’s the beginning of World War I and Herbert Samuel – the first practising Jew ever to sit in a British Cabinet – dreams of using British power to back a return of the Jews to Palestine. His cousin and fellow Cabinet member, Edwin Montagu, is implacably opposed to the idea. Politics, religion and love collide with explosive effect in Ben Brown’s acclaimed play about the origins of Israel.
Directed by Richard Beecham.”
Visit the webpage for more information and tickets.
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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis’ “Taking Mesopotamia” translated into Farsi
MSt tutor Jenny Lewis’ poetry collection, Taking Mesopotamia, has been translated into Farsi by Mohammad Sadegh Raisee and published in Iran on 30 August 2017.
