Category Archives: Tutor News

MSt tutor Marti Leimbach’s novel “Age of Consent” to be published in 2016

MSt tutor Marti Leimbach’s new novel Age of Consent is to be published by  Penguin Random House in the US and Fourth Estate/Harper Collins  in the United Kingdom. Read what Marti has to say about it on her website.

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MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou’s “Cypriot Fiddler” project launches Kickstarter crowdfunding appeal

MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou’s collaboration with film maker, Constantinos Terlikkas, ‘The Cypriot Fiddler’,  which collects the stories of some of the last surviving professional folk violinists in Cyprus, both Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot, has launched a Kickstarter crowd funding … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Alice Jolly on surrogacy in The Times, 20 July 2015

Helen Rumbelow of The Times interviewed MSt Tutor Alice Jolly about her book “Dead Babies and Seaside Towns”. You can read the article in The Times (behind paywall).

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MSt tutor Roopa Farooki’s novel recommended by Inspires, the alumni magazine of University of Oxford department of Politics

Inspires magazine describes Roopa Farooki’s novel, The Good Children as “”Evocative of generational change this book probes into the saga of the South Asian migrant experience, and portrays a world of both compassion and violence, and love and loss.” Read … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jane Draycott on characters and personae poets meet (in their writing)

  MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s podcast for the Royal Literary Fund on the characters and personae poets meet in their writing is now available at the RLF site (http://www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/wa_episode21/)

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“Other People’s Countries” by MSt tutor Patrick McGuiness is Wales Book of the Year, 2015

Other People’s Countries by MSt tutor Patrick McGuiness is the Wales Book of the Year for 2015. Announcing the award, by Literature Wales and judged this year by Alex Clark, Tessa Hadley and Paul Henry,  Paul Henry said: “The stylistic … Continue reading

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MSt tutor George Szirtes shares 2015 International Man Booker Translator’s Prize

2015 International Man Book Prize winner Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai “has chosen to split the £15,000 translator’s prize between two translators, George Szirtes (who translated Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance) and Ottilie Mulzet (who translated Seiobo There Below). Szirtes is … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Wendy Brandmark’s novel on the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered longlist

MSt tutor Wendy Brandmark’s novel The Stray American has been longlisted for the 2015 Jerwoord Fiction Uncovered prize. “The Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize today (Tuesday 12 May) announces its longlist of 15 books which showcase the breadth and vibrancy of British writing … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse on writing, the course and getting published

Bette Adriaanse on writing, the course and getting published In the second year of the Master in Creative Writing, I started writing what would become my first novel, Rus Like Everyone Else. There was no plan, I only had a … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Alice Jolly’s article in The Daily Mail – “First person: ‘My little girl has three mothers'”

“Despite losing a baby and suffering several miscarriages and IVF failures, writer Alice Jolly was determined to find a way to have another child…” Read the article at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-3018179/First-person-little-girl-three-mothers.html

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