MSt alumnus Sam Guglani’s “Histories” to be published by Quercus, November 2017

MSt alumnus Sam Guglani’s Histories to be published by Quercus in November 2017.

From Janklow & Nesbit:

Histories is a hypnotic portrait of life in one hospital, over one week, where we witness charged encounters within the emotional and physical world of medicine, as characters go through the motions of their everyday existence: Dev, a consultant physician, prepares for his morning clinic; Jane, a hairdresser and patient, lulls in and out of consciousness; old insecurities surface as Seb and Ben, junior doctors together from day one, try to save a man from dying. These are only some of the stories that so seamlessly connect and collide. It’s an unforgettable panorama of being. Sam Guglani’s prose has the raw intensity of poetry; every page of this novel sucks you in and demands intense emotional investment. ”

More at the publisher’s website.

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MSt alumna Sarvat Hasin interview, Oxford Writers’ House

From the Oxford Writer’s House website:
This week, we present an exclusive interview with Sarvat Hasin – recent graduate of the MSt in Creative Writing at Oxford University – whose debut novel, This Wide Night, has just been published by Penguin India. You can read more about the novel here, or hear what Kiran Millwood Hargrave (former President of the Oxford University Poetry Society, and bestselling author of The Girl of Ink and Starshas to say about it on her blog. – Theophilus Kwek, Publications Director “

Read the interview here.

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MSt tutor Harry Man shortlisted for 2016 Ted Hughes Award

MSt tutor Harry Man has been shortlisted for the 2016 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, for  Finders Keepers (Sidekick Books).

From the Poetry Society’s announcement:

“Described as a poetic field guide to Britain’s vanishing wildlife, the book Finders Keepers contains poems and colour illustrations that are the culmination of a year-long project which has seen Harry Man and illustrator Sophie Gainsley geocaching their work in public spaces across the country. It is a project that seeks to memorialise the many species that have been brought to the brink (and beyond) of extinction.
From the judges: “This collection is a symbiotic relationship between poetry and illustration. Image and text inventively flow in and out of each other, playing with form and colour. There is an integrity to the poetry which is both charming and precious, making you look again at the environment and your own back garden.”

The winner will be announced at the Ted Hughes Award and National Poetry Competition Award Ceremony on 29 March 2017.

More information about the prize, the shortlist.

More about Finders Keepers from Sidekick Books

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MSt tutor Jamie McKendrick awarded 2016 John Florio prize for translation

MSt tutor Jamie McKendrick has been awarded the 2016 John Florio prize for translation from Italian for his translation of Antonella Anedda’s Archipelago.

‘Where Anedda crisscrosses the usual navigational lines between poetry and prose, McKendrick expertly follows, occasionally shifting course himself to good effect. Archipelago charts an intriguing confluence of poetic minds.’

More on the prize and the award.
Visit Bloodaxe Books for more about Archipelago.

More on the prize and the award

Visit Bloodaxe Books for more about Archipelago.

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Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Kat Sommers, 1 March 2018

“ Wandering lonely as a cloud: Coping with isolation as a writer ”

Kat Sommers is a comedy writer based in south London. She has written for the BBC, Sky, and the School of Life, and recently co-wrote a sitcom for Radio 4, Charlotte & Lillian , starring Miriam Margoyles and Helen Monks. She has a TV show about best friends in development and is writing a memoir about pop fandom.

Mawby Room, Kellogg College,
62 Banbury Road
5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm

All are welcome and no bookings are necessary.

Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan

http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/CW

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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 oppression…”

The winner will be announced on 30th March 2017.

More information on the shortlist and the prize.

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

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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 quiet, seething world of four women in the subcontinent.
Sarvat Hasin was born in London and grew up in Karachi. She studied politics at Royal Holloway, and wrote her debut novel whilst studying for a Creative Writing masters at the University of Oxford. She has also worked as a bookseller and at publishing houses. Her short stories, essays and poetry have appeared widely in journals and anthologies including The Mays Anthology, Diverse Quarterly, Catweazle Magazine and Dawn Newspaper.

Fri 17 March 2017
7:00 –  8:30 pm

Blackwell’s Bookshop, 51 Broad Street, Oxford

Attendance free, registration required. For more information, visit this page.

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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 author and co-founder of the award, Sunny Singh (chair), YA author Catherine Johnson, author and poet Alex Wheatle MBE, poet and broadcaster Musa Okwonga and Booker-longlisted fiction writer Yvvette Edwards.

For more about the prize and the shortlist, visit the Jhalak Prize website. The winner will be announced on 17th March 2017.

For more about The Girl of Ink and Stars, visit the publisher’s page.

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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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