Category Archives: MSt News

MSt tutor Wendy Brandmark’s short story wins 2016 Bridport Prize

MSt tutor Wendy Brandmark’s short story “Cut Loose” has been awarded the 1st prize in the 2016 Bridport Prize competition. More information on the prize and winners.

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MSt tutor, alumna, and student shortlisted for 2016 Bridport Prize, Poetry

Poems by MSt tutor Caroline Bird, MSt alumna Harriet MacMillan, and student Mary Jane Holmes were short-listed for the 2016 Bridport  Prize. The full short list.

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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 alumna Elena Kaufman’s collection “Love Bites” to Unbound

MSt alumna Elena Kaufman’s collection Love Bites, has been accepted by Unbound. You can read more about Elena’s book and how to support it by clicking on the below, or by going to the book’s webpage.  

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MSt alumna Alexandra Strnad’s poems in Wasafiri

Two poems by MSt alumna Alexandra Strnad are being published in Wasafiri, Issue 87.

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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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