MSt tutor Tina Pepler spoke with MSt tutor Jane Draycott for the Royal Literary Fund podcast series Writers Aloud. “…about the responsibility to real lives when fictionalising traumatic experiences, how the internet can’t beat talking to people for stories you didn’t even know you were looking for, and working as a mentor with young people arriving in the UK from other cultures” You can access the podcast here. |
MSt alumna Madiha Bee’s poetry collection The Lightworkers has been published by Pinyon Publishing.
“These are poems that will not just ‘awaken the soul’ but all the senses too. Madiha Bee’s playful and richly vivid illustrations illuminate a poetics of searching energy and sensuous, jewel-like invention: like the electric dreams in her poem ‘Gross National Happiness,’ the whole collection takes her reader on a journey through the heart of contemporary life in all its contradictory complexity.”—Jane Draycott, Oxford University
MSt alumnus Prajwal Parajuly’s nove Land Where I Flee, translated as Fuir et Revenir, by Benoîte Dauvergne, has been long listed for the Emile Guimet Prize and for the Prix du Premier roman (First Novel Award) 2020
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MSt alumna Phoebe Stucks has won the Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize 2020.
From the Poetry Society announcement:
“The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize is an annual prize for the best poem published in The Poetry Review written by a poet who doesn’t yet have a full collection. The winner is announced in the summer issue of The Poetry Review each year.
The latest winner, chosen by Fiona Benson, is Phoebe Stuckes for her poem, ‘Thus I became a heart-eater’, which was published in The Poetry Review in the Winter 2019 issue.”
MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee and MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee spoke to the BookClub Show, about Jing-Jing’s Woman’s Prize for Fiction shortlisted novel How We Disappeared.
MSt Tutor Helen Mort’s dedicated edition of BBC R4’s Poetry Please is available on BBC Sounds till 31st July, 2020.
“Helen Mort … she chooses her favourite poems. Including works by Wordsworth, Norman MacCaig and Karen McCarthy Woolf. “
MSt alumna Camille Ralphs has been appointed Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement, the first woman ever hold the role. Camille also has a second pamphlet forthcoming, with If A Leaf Falls Press.
MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse has been nominated for the Netherland’s biennial Victorie Fonds Cultuur Prize in the category Writing.
‘Her imaginative and mysterious prose immediately intrigued the jury.’
MSt alumna Maya Popa is the runner up for whe Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2020. Read more about the prize, Maya, and the other winners here.
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