Category Archives: MSt News

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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MSt alumnus Oliver Michell production manager for “As You Like It”, the Rose Theatre, London. 1st – 26th Oct 2013

For more information and to book tickets see http://www.rosetheatre.org.uk/events/event/as-you-like-ie-by-william-shakespeare/.

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MSt Alumni James Benmore’s Dodger on the 2013 Not the Booker longlist

James Benmore’s Dodger (Heron Books, 2013) was longlisted for the “Not the Booker prize”. More information in the Guardian.

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Mst Tutors Jane Draycott & Jenny Lewis at the Ashmolean: National Poetry Day, 3 Oct 2013

From Gilgamesh to Beowulf – 5,000 years of epic: two creative writing workshops led by Jenny Lewis (Gilgamesh, 10.00-12.30) and Jane Draycott (Beowulf, 1.30-4.00), followed by a group reading from 4.00-5.00pm. Price: £15 per workshop or £25 for the whole … Continue reading

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MSt Alumni Prajwal Parajuly and David Shook on Dylan Thomas Prize longlist 2013

Prajwal Parajuly’s The Gurkha’s Daughter (prose) and David Shook’s Our Obsidian Tongues (poetry) have been longlisted for the  Dylan Thomas Prize  2013. The prize, for young writers, was launched in 2006. More about the prize. The complete  2013  longlist.  

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The Harlequin, issue 2.

Featuring work by MSt in Creative Writing graduates David Shook and Patrick Toland, and also poems by A.E. Stallings, Carrie Fountain and Kate Potts, fiction by Ron Rash and a conversation with Don Paterson on, amongst other matters, poetry and … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jane Draycott, winner National Poetry competition. Reading at Keats Festival, 28 May 2013.

MSt tutor Jane Draycott, Pascale Petit and Patricia McCarthy have won the 2013 National Poetry Competition. Reading and discussion at Keats House. Presented by the Poetry Society. 28th May 6:30PM – 9:00PM The Nightingale Room, Keats House, 10 Keats Grove London … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Nikita Lalwani’s book The Village available in paperback

MSt tutor Nikita Lalwani’s book The Village is now available in paperback.

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MSt alumni Paul Sweeten and Luke Smith launch literary journal The Harlequin

MSt graduates Paul Sweeten and Luke Smith have launched The Harlequin, a new quarterly literary journal featuring poetry, fiction, interviews and personal essays. The first issue features poetry from MSt tutors Jane Draycott and Geore Szirtes, and also work from … Continue reading

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