MSt alumna Kiran Millwood-Hargrave’s “The Way Past Winter” Sunday Times’ Children’s Book of the Year

Posted on December 3, 2018 by MSt Creative Writing

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.

More on this (behind paywall)

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MSt alumna Daisy Johnson’s “Everything Under” on Guardian and Lithub’s Books of the Year lists

Posted on December 3, 2018 by MSt Creative Writing

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.

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MSt tutor Roopa Farooki on judging panel for Young Muslim Writers Award

Posted on November 28, 2018 by MSt Creative Writing

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.”

More about the prize and the judges

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MSt tutor Jane Draycott reading at the British Library, 26 Nov 2018

Posted on November 25, 2018 by MSt Creative Writing

MSt tutor Jane Draycott will be reading at the British Library on Monday 26 Nov 2018 for Carcanet’s “What makes a Classic?”

From the announcement:

One generation’s classics look quite different from another’s. So how do you define them?

To celebrate the launch of Carcanet’s new Carcanet Classics series, we explore how you go about curating a list of classics and what value such collections hold for readers, writers, students or even collectors.

The Carcanet Classics range from books from two millennia BC to those of our own century, from Sumeria to Paterson, New Jersey, from ancient Greece to Anglo-Saxondom. The range includes new takes on ancient texts (two Gilgameshes for example), new readings of the Latin classics and young poets advocating the work of their mentors.

Readers at this event include:
– Carcanet’s Founder and Editorial Director, Michael Schmidt
– John Clegg (Selected Poems by John Heath-Stubbs, Sept 2018)
– Jane Draycott (Pearl (trans.), Sept 2018) 
– Philip Terry (Dictator (a Gilgamesh translation), Oct 2018) 
– Robyn Marsack (Selected Poems by Edmund Blunden, Dec 2018)at the Knowledge Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

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tickets Full Price: £10.00, Member: £10.00, Senior 60+: £8.00, Student: £7.00, Registered Unemployed: £7.00, Under 18: £7.00
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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis at the Stanford University Centre, Oxford, 20th Nov 2018

Posted on November 19, 2018 by MSt Creative Writing

MSt tutor Jenny Lewis will be at the Stanford University Centre in Oxford on the 20th of November 2018, 5 – 7 pm.

From the announcement:

Translating Trauma: Creative Responses to War and Conflict

British poet Jenny Lewis and Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh discuss their approaches to writing and translating war poetry. Jenny will show a presentation of her father’s black and white photographs, taken in Iraq during the First World War Mesopotamian Campaign from her book Taking Mesopotamia (Oxford Poets/ Carcanet 2014) and Adnan al-Sayegh will discuss the horror of his time as a young conscript in the Iran Iraq War and subsequent 18 months in an army detention centre (for reading poetry in the barracks), and read from his celebrated epic poem, Uruk’s Anthem.

The session will include a short translation exercise (no previous translation knowledge necessary) and a Q&A with students to further explore issues around creative responses to trauma.

Stanford University Centre in Oxford
65 High St
Oxford
OX1 4EL
United Kingdom

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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis’ “Gilgamesh Retold” launches in London, Oxford, 3rd, 4th Oct, 11th Nov 2018

Posted on November 10, 2018 by MSt Creative Writing
Jenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgamesh’s city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were allowed to brew beer and keep taverns and women had their own language – emesal. With this shift of emphasis, Lewis captures the powerful allure of the world’s oldest poem and gives it a fresh dynamic while creating a fast-paced narrative for a new generation of readers.
‘Not simply a retelling of the ancient epic; it is the spirited response of a contemporary poet to the original legend.’
Theodore Ziolkowski, Gilgamesh Among Us
 
SEMINAR, PRIVATE VIEW & CARCANET BOOK LAUNCH
Wednesday 3 October, 2018,
Goldsmiths, University of London
Free admission to seminar – to attend please email Maria MacDonald, m.macdonald@gold.ac.uk‘
NATIONAL POETRY DAY EVENT
Thursday 4 October 2018,
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
WOODSTOCK POETRY FESTIVAL EVENT
Thursday 11 November, 2018
Oxfordshire launch of Gilgamesh Retold followed by the festival’s popular open mic session. Tickets £5. To buy a ticket/ book a slot contact 01993 812760, or email info@woodstockbookshop.co.uk.

 

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MSt alumni Daisy Johnson & Kiran Millwood Hargrave shortlisted for Blackwell’s Book of the Year

Posted on November 5, 2018 by MSt Creative Writing

MSt alumni Daisy Johnson and Kiran Millwood Hargrave have been shortlisted for Blackwell’s Book of the Year for Daisy’s Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Everything Under (Jonathan Cape) and Kiran’s The Way Past Winter (Chicken House).

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/johnson-and-millwood-hargrave-battle-it-out-blackwells-book-year-885076

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MSt alumni Majella Kelly and Art Allen First and Third in Ambit Poetry Competition

Posted on October 30, 2018 by MSt Creative Writing

MSt alumni Majella Kelly and Art Allen have won First and Third Prizes respectively, in the Ambit Poetry Competition. The poems, on the theme of ‘Home’ and judged by Malika Booker, are available to read online.

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s Guardian podcast available

Posted on October 30, 2018 by MSt Creative Writing

(from The Guardian)

The Guardian’s podcast with MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Jessie Burton talking about feminist fairytales is available online.

From the announcement:

“On this week’s show, we’re talking feminist fairytales with Jessie Burton and Kiran Millwood Hargrave.

Burton’s latest book, The Restless Girls, is a feminist retelling of the Brothers Grimm story The Twelve Dancing Princesses. In the Grimms’ original, a dozen nameless sisters are punished and forced into marriage because they love to dance. Among many changes, Burton gives each of the 12 women at the heart of the story a name – and a racing-driver mother.

Millwood Hargrave’s third book, The Way Past Winter, is not a retelling of a particular fairytale. Inspired by Scandinavian and Slavic folklore, Hargrave tells the story of three sisters who go searching for their missing brother in a magical and dangerous land. Both authors explain the importance of giving their female characters agency, the details they changed to subvert traditional fairytales, and how they deal with male readers who hesitate to read their books.”

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MSt alumna Maya Popa interviews MSt tutors Jane Draycott & Jenny Lewis for Carcanet blog

Posted on October 30, 2018 by MSt Creative Writing

Jane Draycott and Jenny Lewis: Recalibrating the Classics

MSt alumna Maya Popa interviewed MSt tutors Jane Draycott & Jenny Lewis for Carcanet blog, which is now available to read online.

From the announcement;
“This week on the blog, Jenny Lewis and Jane Draycott talk to Maya C. Popa about their translations Gilgamesh Retold and Pearl. As part of the Bookblast Tour 2018, the pair will be discussing their work in Claiming the Great Tradition: Women Recalibrate the Classics at Waterstones, Manchester on Thursday 8 November. We’d love to see you there. 

For more information, head over to our Facebook event.

Jenny Lewis is an Anglo-Welsh poet, playwright, songwriter, children’s author and translator who teaches poetry at Oxford University. She trained as a painter at the Ruskin School of Art before reading English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

She has published two collections with Oxford Poets/Carcanet, Fathom (2007) andTaking Mesopotamia (2014). Lewis is currently completing a PhD on Gilgamesh at Goldsmiths. Her translation Gilgamesh Retold is due out this October.

Jane Draycott studied at King’s College London and Bristol University. Her first full collection, Prince Rupert’s Drop was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 1999. In 2002 she was the winner of the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry and in 2004, the year of her second collection, The Night Tree, she was nominated as one of the Poetry Book Society’s ‘Next Generation’ list of poets. Her third collection, Over was shortlisted for the 2009 T.S. Eliot Prize. 

 
She lives in Oxfordshire and is a tutor on postgraduate writing programmes at Oxford University and Lancaster University. 
Maya C. Popa is a Romanian-American poet and the author of two chapbooks, The Bees Have Been Canceled, and You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave. She holds degrees from Oxford University, New York University, and Barnard College. She directs the Creative Writing Program and teaches English Literature at the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York City.
Jenny Lewis and Jane Draycott
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