Category Archives: MSt News

MSt tutor Helen Mort explores voices from around the world for BBC Radio 4

MSt tutor Helen Mort presents BBC Radio 4’s “Bodies in Motion” series. From the Radio 4 announcement: “The first edition of a new globe-trotting poetry series. Poet Helen Mort explores exciting voices from around the world. This week, she hears … Continue reading

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MSt tutor George Szirtes awarded honorary doctorate by the University of East Anglia

(image from George Szirtes’ blog) MSt tutor George Szirtes has been awarded honorary doctorate by the University of East Anglia. The press release announces: “George Szirtes lives in Wymondham and is a poet and translator and retired UEA reader: Born … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee’s novel “How We Disappeared” to be published by Oneworld

(image from The Bookseller) From The Bookseller: “Oneworld is to publish a “searing” novel set in occupied Singapore by Oxford graduate Jing-Jing Lee. Publisher Juliet Mabey bought World English rights to How We Disappeared from Nelle Andrew at PFD. How … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Marie Gethins win Dorset Fiction Award

MSt alumna Marie Gethins’ short story “The Old Man” has won the 2017 Dorset Fiction Award. Read about the prize, and read the story and an interview with Marie: “One piece of advice? Listen and keep an open mind.”  

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MSt tutor Prof Belinda Jack’s lecture “Poetry and Immortality: John Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale'” available online

MSt tutor Prof Belinda Jack’s lecture Poetry and Immortality: John Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ is available online. It has attracted over 30,000 views to date.  

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MSt tutor Prof Belinda Jack gives her final lecture as Gresham Professor of Rhetoric

MSt tutor Professor Belinda Jack, Fellow and Tutor in French at Christ Church,  gave her final lecture as Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College on Tuesday 9 May 2017, at the Museum of London in the Barbican. The lecture … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Rebecca Abrams to be Writer-in-Residence at Brasenose

MSt tutor Rebecca Abrams is to be Writer-in-Residence at Brasenose College, Oxford, starting in October 2017.  

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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis with poet Adnan al-Sayegh, artist Frances Kiernan, exhibition at Iraqi Embassy, London

Exhibition and readings of work by MST tutor Jenny Lewis at Iraqi Embassy cultural event MSt tutor Jenny Lewis joined the distinguished Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh and the British artist Frances Kiernan to present an exhibition of prints and extracts … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017

MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Girl of Ink & Stars is the overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s  Book Prize 2017.  It is also the winner in the category Younger Fiction. From the Waterstone’s website: “…we’re proud to announce Kiran … Continue reading

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Plays by MSt alumna Jingan Young & MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee in “Foreign Goods Last Forever 2: Visions of England”, 24th, 25th April 2017

Plays by MSt alumna Jingan Young and MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee feature in Jingan Young’s Pokfulam Rd Production’s “”Foreign Goods Last Forever 2: Visions of England”” From the announcement: “After a sell out show at Theatre503 in November of 2016, … Continue reading

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