Category Archives: Tutor News

MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s review of Simon Armitage’s “Pearl”

MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s review for PN Review of Oxford Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage’s Pearl is available to read online: http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=9737

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MSt tutor Alice Jolly at the Durham Book Festival, 9th Oct 2016

MSt tutor Alice Jolly will be appearing at the Durham Book Festival: “Publisher John Mitchinson talks to Unbound authors Nikesh Shukla and Alice Jolly about the trials and tribulations of crowd-funding a book…” Sunday 9 October, 11am-12pm Durham Town Hall … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Roopa Farooki in conversation with Jo Good, BBC Radio

MSt tutor Roopa Farooki is in conversation with Jo Good on BBC Radio London on Wednesday, 24 August 2016 at 1 pm (UK) time. You can listen to the broadcast online here.

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MSt tutor Alice Jolly awarded 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize

(image from PEN Ackerely website) MSt tutor Alice Jolly’s Dead Babies and Seaside Towns (Unbound, 2015) has been awarded the 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize. “Alice Jolly has this evening been announced as the winner of the 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Roopa Farooki shortlisted for Commonword Diversity Writing for Children Prize

MSt tutor Roopa Farooki has been shortlisted for the Commonword Diversity Writing for Children Prize, a prize that encourages diverse characters in children’s fiction, for her  teen novel, Jay Zed Black. The winner will be announced on the 11th of … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Anna Beer’s Fulbright Frontier’s lecture on women composers and their creative communities” now available online

MSt tutor Anna Beer’s Fulbright Frontier’s lecture “Right Place, Right Time: Women composers and their creative communities”.

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MSt tutor Jamie Mckendrick and alumna Daisy Johnson on Guardian reads list

MSt tutor Jamie McKendrick (Selected Poems, recommended by William Boyd) and alumna Daisy Johnson (Fen, recommended by Sarah Perry) feature in The Guardian‘s The Best Books for Summer 2016 reading list.    

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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis poem in the Shakespeare Liturgy

MSt tutor Jenny Lewis’ commissioned poem, ‘The Tale of the Weaver’s Wife’, is part of a new Shakespeare Liturgy based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The other contributing poets are Laurence Sail (Titania), Michael Symmons Roberts (Demetrius), Sinead Morrissey (Puck) … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Sarah Bakewell recommends for “Summer Reads” in the Financial Times

MSt tutor Sarah Bakwell (and others) has recommended a 2016 summer read (well “more chilly than summery perhaps, but the richest book I’ve read recently”) in the Financial Times.

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MSt tutor Roopa Farooki long listed for the Commonword Children’s Diverse Writing Prize, 2016

MSt tutor Roopa Farooki has been long listed for the Commonword Children’s Diverse Writing Prize, 2016.

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