Category Archives: MSt News

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 alumnus Jeremy Hughes novel launch: 5 Nov 2013, Oxford

MSt alumnus Jeremy Hughes’ novel Wingspan will be launched at Kellogg College, 60-62 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PN on Tuesday 5th November 2013 at 7 pm.

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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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MSt Alumnus Prajwal Parajuly on 2013 Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist

Prajwal Parajuly’s collection of short stories The Gurkha’s Daughter has been shortlisted for the 2013 Dylan Thomas Prize. More on the Wales Online website.

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Paul Darby Prize (stage): closing date 28 Feb 2014

The Paul Darby Prize launches on 10 September 2013. Prize of £1,000 and a staging of the play at the  Questors Theatre, West London. Entry fee of £5 Further Information at the Paul Darby Prize blogspot.

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Oxford launch of MSt student Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s poetry collection, Splitfish

With readings by Claire Trévien Kiran Millwood Hargrave Dan Holloway 7 pm,  Saturday, 28 September 2013 at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore, 34 Walton Street, OX2 6AU Oxford Entry: £2 , to support the bookshop.

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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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MSt tutor George Szirtes judge for Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2013 (closing date 21 Oct 2013)

Judges: Deryn Rees-Jones & George Szirtes Prizes: 1st £2,500, 2nd £500, 3rd £250 Entry Fee:  £5/€6/$8 per poem. More details on the Coffee House Poetry website

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