Category Archives: MSt News

MSt tutor Jenny Lewis commissioned to write and film a poem for the COP26 Climate Conference

Jenny Lewis and frequent collaborator Adnan al Sayegh have been commissioned to write and film a poem for the COP26 Climate Conference. They will be performing it live in London on Saturday 10 October, and the film will be shown … Continue reading

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MSt Alumna Rose Edwards publishes new novel, The Ember Days

MSt alumna Rose Edwards has published her second novel with UCLan. The Ember Days follows Rose’s earlier novel, The Harm Tree, on 7 October. “Exiled from a broken land, two friends try to escape the darkness they left behind them. Together … Continue reading

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MSt alumnus Jinwoo Park winner of the 2020 Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award

The Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW) is pleased to announce Jinwoo Park winner of the 2020 Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award for his manuscript The Oxford Soju Club. The judges say, “Park’s accomplished fiction manuscript is a riveting ‘tale of … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Ben Brown’s play A Splinter of Ice at the Jermyn Theatre

“Moscow, 1987. As the Cold War begins to thaw, one of the great novelists of the twentieth century, Graham Greene, meets his old MI6 boss and notorious Soviet spy, Kim Philby. The two men raise their vodka glasses and talk … Continue reading

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MSt alumnus Sharath Jeevan publishes with Hachette

Described by the publisher as, ‘an inspirational manifesto for re-igniting our passion for life and our inner drive,’ MSt Alumnus Sharath Jeevan’s new book is written to help the reader achieve more lasting fulfilment. Published on 2 September 2021, Intrinsic … Continue reading

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Dr Clare Morgan, MSt founder and director, judging the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2021

Dr Clare Morgan, founder and director of the MSt in Creative Writing, will this month be judging the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2021. In a town in which the history of the English language can be traced back by centuries, … Continue reading

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MSt alumnus Chris Viner to publish novella with J. New Books

MSt alumnis Chris Viner has a new book coming out with J. New Books on 1 August 2021. A portion of the royalities from novella Brief Tenancies will go to the Foundation for Peace. A trailer for the publication can … Continue reading

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Alumni Publications – and Successes

Given all the wonderful successes of our alumni, we’ve decided to create a list. This is by no means complete, and we will be updating it as we go along. It’s in alphabetical order (work in progress), by first name, … Continue reading

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MSt alumna MJ Holmes’s novella “Don’t Tell the Bees” published by Ad Hoc Fiction

MSt alumna MJ Holmes’s novella Don’t Tell the Bees , which won the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award has been published by Ad Hoc Fiction. The judge of the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award , Michael Loveday, said: “WThe winning novella is a story … Continue reading

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MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee & MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee in the BookClub Show online

MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee and MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee spoke to the BookClub Show, about Jing-Jing’s Woman’s Prize for Fiction shortlisted novel How We Disappeared.

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