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 day.
For more details visit the Ashmolean website.
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.
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 creative writing schools .
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The Proverbial Hat Theatre Company presents
Gilgamesh Rising
by MSt tutor Jenny Lewis.
Featuring MSt students Joseph Brady, Samir Guglani, Christine Foley, Nemat Sadat, Imogen Harris, Susan Campbell, Katariina Kottonen.
Music by Anita Daulne
“When the Mesopotamian god king, Gilgamesh, angers the deities with his arrogance and hubris, they teach him a lesson by making him fall in love …”
Venue: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
8th June 2013,
3.00 – 3.30, and 4.30 – 5.00 pm.
Admission Free.
More information here.
Eligibility: Members of the University of Oxford and poets living in Oxfordshire.
Presented by the Oxford University Poetry Society.
Senior Common Room, English Faculty,
St Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford.
7 – 10 pm. Admission free.
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 NW3 2RR
£5 (£4 Poetry Society members)
Must be booked in advance, tel: 020 7332 3868 /email keatshouse@cityoflondon.gov.uk
The Impress Prize is open to fiction and nonr fiction by anyone aged 18 and over who has NOT published a book-length publication before.
Closing Date: 17 June 2013
Administrative charge: £10.
Details on Impress Prize website.
Don Paterson’s poetry has won awards including the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, and (twice) the TS Eliot Prize. Most recently, Rain won the 2009 Forward prize.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the English Association< Don Paterson was awarded the OBE in 2008 and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2010. Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, he has been Poetry Editor at Picador since 1996.
Tickets £5; free to students: limited spaces, please book in advance. Ring or email The Woodstock Bookshop for information.
The competition invites “imaginative work that pushes the boundaries of the two categories for entry: Poetry and Fiction”.
More information at www.aestheticamagazine.com/creativewriting
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