MSt alumna Rowena Cooper’s monologue ‘And This is the Funny Thing’ will be performed by The Founding Fall Company as part of their annual Free Fall event in London on 13th December 2018, 6.30 pm
Draper Hall
Hampton Street (junction with Newington Butts)
London SE17 3AN
Tickets can be bought here
After a 4 night run at The Attic theatre in Stratford in July 2018, MSt alumna Rowena Cooper’s play, After Aulis, is to be staged at the Brighton Fringe Festival from 5th-8th May 2019.
Venue: The Quadrant
Time: 6pm, 5th – 8th May 2019
Tickets on sale in March 2019 from https://www.brightonfringe.org/.
More info about the play: http://www.afteraulis.com.
MSt alumna Maya Popa has been appointed poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly.
From the announcement:
“Maya C. Popa has joined Publishers Weekly as its new poetry reviews editor, effective immediately. Popa succeeds Alex Crowley in the post and will be responsible for editing PW’s reviews of poetry collections. She can be reached at mpopa@publishersweekly.com
Popa is a poet and critic whose debut collection of poetry, American Faith, will be published in 2019 by Sarabande Books. Her criticism and nonfiction have appeared widely, including in Poetry, the Times Literary Supplement, and Poets & Writers.“
MSt alumna Morgan Christie’s Variations on a Lobster’s Tale won the Alexander Posey Chapbook contest in 2018, and has been published by the New Plains review. You can read more about the prize here, and find the chapbook on Amazon.
MSt alumna Alexandra Strnad’s pamphlet, Pilgrims, is being published by Eyewear. It is available to preorder/buy from the Eyewear website
MSt alumna Jingan Young’s poem “Plum Nest” has won the 2018 Bi’An Award for Poetry.
About the prize:
“The Bi’an Award is a new writing competition open to UK-based writers of Chinese heritage and supported by Arts Council England, Arvon and Stand magazine.”
MSt alumna Kiran Millwood-Hargrave’s The Way Past Winter is the Sunday Times’ Children’s Book of the Year 2018 for the age group over 12.
MSt alumna Daisy Johnson’s Booker-shortlisted novel Everything Under is one of the Guardian’s “Best Books of the Year“, and one of Lithub’s Favourite Books of 2018.
MSt tutor Roopa Farooki has been named a judge on the panel for Young Muslim Writers Award 2018.
From the announcement:
“The judging panel comprised of 31 award-winning poets, writers, and journalists have been announced for the 8th annual Young Muslim Writers Awards competition.
The panel of judges have been tasked with selecting nine winners for this year’s writing competition organised by UK charity Muslim Hands, in association with the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study (University of London). Thousands of children have submitted their writing over the competition’s eight-year history, with forty-five submissions shortlisted from this year’s entrants.
Since 2010 Muslim Hands has encouraged and nurtured the writing talents of thousands of children through creative writing workshops and the annual competition. Winners from this year’s competition will be announced on Saturday 1st December at the iconic Senate House (London) across the Short Story, Poetry, and Journalism categories.”
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