Master's in Creative Writing

MSt Tutor George Szirtes shortlisted for the 2013 TS Eliot Prize

Posted on October 25, 2013 by MSt Creative Writing

MSt tutor George Szirtes’ Bad Machine has been shortlisted for the 2013 TS Eliot poetry prize.

MSt alumnus Jeremy Hughes novel launch: 5 Nov 2013, Oxford

Posted on October 21, 2013 by MSt Creative Writing

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

Posted on October 15, 2013 by MSt Creative Writing

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

Posted on October 15, 2013 by MSt Creative Writing

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

Posted on October 15, 2013 by MSt Creative 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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‘What is Women’s Writing?’ The Gender, Literature and Culture Seminar, Oxford, 25th October 2013

Posted on October 15, 2013 by MSt Creative Writing

Organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Group and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
For Michaelmas Term 2013, the topic is The Creative and the Critical.
The programme consists of three seminars and a workshop.
Venue: Room 11 at the Exam Schools on High Street, Oxford.
All are welcome, and refreshments will be provided.

Opening seminar
Friday, 25 October (week 2), 2-3.30 p.m.
Dr. Clare Morgan, Director MSt Creative Writing.
Dr Morgan writes both short and long fiction. Her work has been widely anthologized and commissioned for radio, and her novel A Book for All and None (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011) was published in paperback in February 2012. Dr Morgan recently engaged in the research project ‘Living with Rivers’, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, which explores the role of creative writing in environmental issues. She is a widely published literary critic and a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement.