MSt alumna Maya Popa finalist for the 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship

MSt alumna Maya Popa is one of the eighteen finalists for the 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. On 1st September, five of these will be given fellowships, which are awarded “to young poets in the U.S. through a national competition sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. Established in 1989 by the Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly, the fellowships are intended to encourage the further study and writing of poetry.”

The fellowships will be announced on 1st September.

For more information, see Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships

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MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou’s “Cypriot Fiddler” project launches Kickstarter crowdfunding appeal

MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou’s collaboration with film maker, Constantinos Terlikkas, ‘The Cypriot Fiddler’,  which collects the stories of some of the last surviving professional folk violinists in Cyprus, both Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot, has launched a Kickstarter crowd funding appeal. The campaign ends on 31 August 2015.

The Cypriot Fiddler Kickstarter Campaign
The Cypriot Fiddler on Facebook

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MSt tutor Alice Jolly on surrogacy in The Times, 20 July 2015

Helen Rumbelow of The Times interviewed MSt Tutor Alice Jolly about her book “Dead Babies and Seaside Towns”. You can read the article in The Times (behind paywall).

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MSt tutor Roopa Farooki’s novel recommended by Inspires, the alumni magazine of University of Oxford department of Politics

Inspires magazine describes Roopa Farooki’s novel, The Good Children as “”Evocative of generational change this book probes into the saga of the South Asian migrant experience, and portrays a world of both compassion and violence, and love and loss.”

Read the full recommendation.

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MSt alumna Maya Popa talks about poetry, medicine & the 2015 Hippocrates Prize

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MSt tutor Jane Draycott on characters and personae poets meet (in their writing)

 

MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s podcast for the Royal Literary Fund on the characters and personae poets meet in their writing is now available at the RLF site (http://www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/wa_episode21/)

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“Other People’s Countries” by MSt tutor Patrick McGuiness is Wales Book of the Year, 2015

Other People’s Countries by MSt tutor Patrick McGuiness is the Wales Book of the Year for 2015.

Announcing the award, by Literature Wales and judged this year by Alex Clark, Tessa Hadley and Paul Henry,  Paul Henry said:

“The stylistic quality of this brilliant, lyrical memoir is best described through a simile from the book where a bracelet of water “doesn’t run over the stones but flexes like clear muscle over its riverbed.”  It’s a poet’s prose at its best – perfectly paced, effortless in its devices. Tender, humorous, moving and, in places, profound, Other People’s Countries reminds us how great writing approaches the essence of Memory.”

Read more about this at the Wales Book of the Year site.

 

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MSt alumna Maya Popa wins 2015 Hippocrates Prize

MSt alumna Maya Popa has won  the 2015 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.

“The £5000 First Prize in the Open Category was awarded to teacher and writer Maya Catherine Popa from New York City for a poem inspired by her neuroscientist great grandfather”

Read about her and the other winners.

 

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MSt tutor George Szirtes shares 2015 International Man Booker Translator’s Prize

2015 International Man Book Prize winner Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai “has chosen to split the £15,000 translator’s prize between two translators, George Szirtes (who translated Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance) and Ottilie Mulzet (who translated Seiobo There Below). Szirtes is a Hungarian-born poet who came to the UK as a refugee. He has won a number of prizes for his poetry, including the T S Eliot Prize. He has also translated Sándor Márai amongst others.”

Read more about László Krasznahorkai and the prize here.

 

 

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MSt tutor Wendy Brandmark’s novel on the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered longlist

MSt tutor Wendy Brandmark’s novel The Stray American has been longlisted for the 2015 Jerwoord Fiction Uncovered prize.

“The Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize today (Tuesday 12 May) announces its longlist of 15 books which showcase the breadth and vibrancy of British writing today. Now in its 5th year, the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize is unique in its aim to celebrate great British fiction…”

Read more about it on the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered page, and read Wendy’s post for this blog: “On Letting go of a Novel

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