Saturday 2nd March, 2013, 7.00pm
New College Cellar Bar
Suggested donation £2
Hosted by Oxford Student PEN
Featuring poets, Luke Kennard, Kiran Millwood Hargrave and David Sergeant and poems by imprisoned Cameroonian poet, Enoh Meyomesse.
An evening with three of Oxford’s Rising Literary Stars. With MSt alumnus Prajwal Parajuly, MSt tutor Sam Thompson, and Patrick McGuinness.
The three authors will be in conversation with Dr. Clare Morgan, Director of the MSt.
Tickets: £3 (available from Customer Service Department, Blackwell’s Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford. Telephone: 01865 333623).
There are three categories:
The novel: Short list judge Tracy Chevalier
Synopsis and opening chapters (up to 15,000 words in total)
Entry fee – £11 for each novel submitted
The short story: Short list judge Julia Churchill, The Greenhouse Literary Agency
Up to a maximum of 2,000 words.
Entry fee – £6 for each short story submitted
Poetry: Judge Neil Astley, Editor and MD Bloodaxe Books
A poem with a maximum of 40 lines.
Entry fee – £6 for one poem, £9 for two, £11 for three
Closing date: 31st May 2013, 23:59
Full information and details at www.yeovilprize.co.uk
(Postal address: Yeovil Literary Prize, The Octagon Theatre, Hendford, Yeovil, BA20 1UX)
The 2013 Cheshire Prize for literature has now opened. The prize is for poetry.
Note that this open only to writers with a Cheshire connection:
“The writer must have been born, live or have lived, study or have studied, work or have worked, in Cheshire. For the purposes of the Prize, Cheshire is deemed to include the Wirral, as well as Warrington and Halton. Documentary evidence of eligibility may be required.”
Closing date 1st September 2013.
For details see http://www.chester.ac.uk/literatureprize
MSt alumnus James Benmore’s novel Dodger, an amusing novel about the life and (mis)adventures of the Artful Dodger (from Dickens’ Oliver Twist) after he returns from deportation to Australia, will be published on 11 April 2013 by Heron Books.
Available at all good bookshops. More information at the book at the Heron Books website.
Clare Morgan (Director, MSt) and Susan Sellers (Professor, English, St Andrew’s University) on
The Ruffian in the Market Place: What Do We Read Fiction For?
“Drawing on literary predecessors as varied as Jane Austen, Henry Miller, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Franz Kafka and P. D. James, Morgan and Sellers will share with the audience the challenges, the solutions, and the excitements of writing such fiction, in relation to their own published and forthcoming work.”
Thursday 21 March 2013, 4.00 pm
Venue: Bodleian, Convocation HouseMore information at the Oxford Literary Festival event page.
MSt tutor George Szirtes has several recent publications:
Poetry
Bad Machine (UK Bloodaxe, 2013)
Bad Machine (UK Sheeps Meadow, 2013)
Poems for Children
In the Land of the Giants (Salt 2012)
Translation
Yudit Kiss: The Summer My Father Died (Telegram)
László Krasznahorkai: Satantango (New Directions, US, TuskarRock, UK)
Co-edited collection
In Their Own Words: Contemporary Poets on the Poetry, co-edited with Helen
Ivory (Salt, 2012)
MSt student Prajwal Parajuly’s The Gurkha’s Daughter: Stories (Quercus, 3 Jan 2013), a collection of stories about Gurkhas, Darjeeling, Kalimpong and the world, was number four on the Amazon “Hot New Releases” on 13 November 2012.
Update: Prajwal will be reading at the Albion Beatnik Bookshop on 7th February 2013.
The Lady describes his collection as
“A collection of finely crafted, vibrant stories that focus on the minutiae of the life of the Nepalese community in their homeland and abroad. Stylistically reminiscent of Raymond Carver, while at the same time opening a door on to an unfamiliar world.”
The Guardian review speaks of its “energetic play of perspectives” and reviews have appeared in a number of other newspapers and journals.
Read an interview on Republica with Prajwal while he was doing his MSt.
Prajwal’s book is available in bookshops and on Amazon.
The Mays Anthology publishes new student writing and art from Cambridge and Oxford Universities. Submissions for publication in the 2013 edition are open. Special consideration will be given to works that adhere clearly to the theme of PLAY.
*SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES*
INDIVIDUAL: No more than three individual submissions in any mode (poetry, fiction, drama, screenplay, graphic novel, the essay, visual arts, or any other genre), up to a total of four A4 pages. Each piece of work should start on a new page.
COLLABORATIVE: The Mays #21 will emphasise creative collaboration. Each person may submit up to two collaborative works in addition to individual submissions. Collaborative works should be submitted by ONE collaborator, not multiple times by all those involved; nobody may participate in more than two submissions. They can be in any mode or
modes(interdisciplinary if desired) and each collaborative submission must be no more than three A4 pages.
FORMATTING GUIDELINES: Literary submissions should be saved as .docx
or .doc and formatted in Times New Roman font, size 12. Please state
in your accompanying email which, if any, of your submissions are
excerpts from longer works.
HOW TO SUBMIT:
Email your submissions to mays21submissions@gmail.com before 02/03/2013. Submissions must not have been previously published.
The 2013 Wenlock Poetry Competition is now open for entries to anyone age 17 and over. Up to 5 original poems, maximum 40 lines, on any subject, can be submitted. Entry fee is £5.00 per poem.
· 1st prize £500
· 2nd prize £200
· 3rd prize £100
Shortlisted entries will be judged by Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate. Winners will be invited to read at an awards ceremony on Saturday 6th April in Much Wenlock as part of Wenlock Poetry Festival 2013.
More information and details on how to enter can be found on the Wenlock Poetry Festival website.
Closing Date: Wed 6 Feb 2013
Entry fee: £5.00 per poem
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