Category Archives: MSt News

MSt alumnus Rory Gleeson reading at Anthony Burgess Foundation 28 March

MSt alumnus Rory Gleeson is one of three debut writers reading at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation From the Foundation’s announcement: “… novelists Rory Gleeson and Alys Conran, and poet Joey Connolly. Roddy Doyle wrote of Gleeson’s debut, ‘Rockadoon Shore is … Continue reading

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MSt alumnus James Ellis on his novel, The Wrong Story, being published

MSt alumnus James Ellis’s novel The Wrong Story has been published by Unbound. “After falling from a car park roof, cartoonist Tom Hannah is left with partial amnesia and the feeling that something important is missing from his life. His … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s “The Girl Of Ink And Stars” shortlisted for Waterstones Children’s Book Prize

MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Girl Of Ink And Stars has been shortlisted for Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in the Young Readers category. “Kiran Millwood-Hargrave … offers us the rich allegories of a young girl fighting for truth against … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Daisy Johnson longlisted for Sunday Times EFG Short Story award

Photo from Eve White agency MSt alumna Daisy Johnson’s short story “Blood Rites” has been longlisted for the 2017 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. The shortlist will be announced on March 19th, and the winner on April 27th.

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MSt alumna Sarvat Husain’s novel “This Wide Night” launch, 17th March, Oxford

MSt alumna  Sarvat Hasin’s debut novel, “This Wide Night” will be launched at Blackwell’s Bookshop in Oxford on 17th March 2017. “A retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Little Women’, but transported to 1970s Karachi, this stunning new novel presents a … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s “The Girl Of Ink And Stars” shortlisted for inaugural Jhalak Prize

The Jhalak Prize “seeks to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers, and the overall winner will be presented with a prize of £1,000. The shortlist consists of fiction, YA, non-fiction, debuts, short stories and genre.” This year’s judges are … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Sabyn Javeri’s novel “Nobody Killed Her” launched at Karachi Literature Festival

  MSt alumna Sabyn Javeri’s novel Nobody Killed Her (HarperCollins, 2017) was launched at Karachi Literature Festival on Saturday 11th February 2017. The novel is available to pre-order on Amazon.

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MSt alumna Catherine Higgins-Moore’s “Strange Roof” to be published in May 2017

  Catherine Higgins-Moore’s Strange Roof by Finishing Line Press in May 2017, in the New Women’s Voices Series. ‘Catherine Higgins-Moore’s use of language to embolden and communicate experience inspires and excites. She is not afraid of anything. Her confident gritty … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Maya Popa’s chapbook “The Bees Have Been Canceled” published Feb 2017

MSt alumna Maya Popa’s chapbook, The Bees Have Been Canceled: Poems, has been published by New Michigan Press. ‘this remarkable chapbook [is]…annunciatory and regenerative…continually making anew the world it describes’ (Jamie McKendrick) ‘a terrific new voice in poetry, cerebral, distinctive … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch shortlisted in the 2016 Live Canon International Poetry Competition

“Spitfire Kitchen” by MSt tutor Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch was shortlisted for the 2016 Live Canon International Poetry Competition. More on the shortlist, the judge and the winner.

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