Category Archives: Tutor News

MSt tutor Emma Jones on ‘Next Generation 2014’ list of poets

Once every decade, the  Poetry Book Society recognises “the 20 most exciting new poets from the UK and Ireland”. MSt tutor Emma Jones the ‘Next Generation 2014’ list:   http://poetrybooks.co.uk/projects/51/ and http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/11/next-generation-20-poets-poetry-book-society-kate-tempest  

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MSt tutor Jane Draycott wins 2014 Open International Hippocrates poetry prize

MSt tutor, Jane Draycott has won the 2014 Hippocrates NHS and Open Prize for Poetry and Medicine. The judges were poet Philip Gross, barrister Robert Francis QC and Mumsnet Editor Sarah Crown. “Jane Draycott’s winning poem The Return concerns the many sanatoria … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis’ presentation “Finding my father in Mesopotamia”, 15 May 2014

at the National Archives,The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU. 15 May 2014 14:00-15:00 “Through a presentation of original photographs, poetry and witness statements from her latest collection, Taking Mesopotamia (which was heavily based on research at The National … Continue reading

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MSt Tutor George Szirtes shortlisted for the 2013 TS Eliot Prize

MSt tutor George Szirtes’ Bad Machine has been shortlisted for the 2013 TS Eliot poetry prize. More on the TS Eliot prize.

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MSt tutor Abi Docherty’s play on Radio 4 Extra, 16th and 17th October 2013

MSt tutor Abi Docherty’s radio play isten to my Inside Mind is on Radio 4 Extra on 16th Oct 2013 at 10am and 3pm; 17th Oct 203at 3pm. More information on it at the BBC.

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MSt Tutor George Szirtes wins Best Translated Book Award (USA), and CLE poetry for children prize

George Szirtes’ translation of Satantango by László Krasznahorkai won Best Translated Book Award (USA), and his In The Land Of Giants won CLPE Prize for poetry for children.

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Podcast: MSt Director Dr Clare Morgan, MSt Alumnus James Benmore, MSt Tutor Sam Thomson, and Samantha Shannon on writing

James Benmore (Kellogg), Samantha Shannon (St Anne’s) and Sam Thompson (St Anne’s) talked about their work as writers at the annual Oxford University Alumni Weekend. You can read up about the event here  or catch up with the conversation online.

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‘What is Women’s Writing?’ The Gender, Literature and Culture Seminar, Oxford, 25th October 2013

Organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Group and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) For Michaelmas Term 2013, the topic is The Creative and the Critical. The programme consists of three seminars and a workshop. Venue: Room 11 at … Continue reading

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Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing: MSt tutor, novelist Rebecca Abrams, 26 November 2013

“Writing Historical Fiction” Seminar Convenor:  Dr Clare Morgan Mawby Room, Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road 5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/creativewriting.php

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MSt Tutor Amal Chatterjee OpEd in Times of India, Huffington Post, 23 Sep 2013

wtih Siddharth Chatterjee Times of India: Start with Sri Lanka Huffington Post: A Good Neighbour Economic Times: Is India a bully to neighbouring countries?

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