MSt alumna Sarvat Hasin interview, Oxford Writers’ House

Posted on March 20, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

From the Oxford Writer’s House website:
“This week, we present an exclusive interview with Sarvat Hasin – recent graduate of the MSt in Creative Writing at Oxford University – whose debut novel, This Wide Night, has just been published by Penguin India. You can read more about the novel here, or hear what Kiran Millwood Hargrave (former President of the Oxford University Poetry Society, and bestselling author of The Girl of Ink and Stars) has to say about it on her blog. – Theophilus Kwek, Publications Director “

Read the interview here.

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MSt tutor Harry Man shortlisted for 2016 Ted Hughes Award

Posted on March 10, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

MSt tutor Harry Man has been shortlisted for the 2016 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, for  Finders Keepers (Sidekick Books).

From the Poetry Society’s announcement:

“Described as a poetic field guide to Britain’s vanishing wildlife, the book Finders Keepers contains poems and colour illustrations that are the culmination of a year-long project which has seen Harry Man and illustrator Sophie Gainsley geocaching their work in public spaces across the country. It is a project that seeks to memorialise the many species that have been brought to the brink (and beyond) of extinction.
From the judges: “This collection is a symbiotic relationship between poetry and illustration. Image and text inventively flow in and out of each other, playing with form and colour. There is an integrity to the poetry which is both charming and precious, making you look again at the environment and your own back garden.”

The winner will be announced at the Ted Hughes Award and National Poetry Competition Award Ceremony on 29 March 2017.

More information about the prize, the shortlist.

More about Finders Keepers from Sidekick Books

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MSt tutor Jamie McKendrick awarded 2016 John Florio prize for translation

Posted on March 4, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

MSt tutor Jamie McKendrick has been awarded the 2016 John Florio prize for translation from Italian for his translation of Antonella Anedda’s Archipelago.

‘Where Anedda crisscrosses the usual navigational lines between poetry and prose, McKendrick expertly follows, occasionally shifting course himself to good effect. Archipelago charts an intriguing confluence of poetic minds.’

More on the prize and the award.
Visit Bloodaxe Books for more about Archipelago.

More on the prize and the award

Visit Bloodaxe Books for more about Archipelago.

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Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Kat Sommers, 1 March 2018

Posted on February 22, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

“ Wandering lonely as a cloud: Coping with isolation as a writer ”

Kat Sommers is a comedy writer based in south London. She has written for the BBC, Sky, and the School of Life, and recently co-wrote a sitcom for Radio 4, Charlotte & Lillian , starring Miriam Margoyles and Helen Monks. She has a TV show about best friends in development and is writing a memoir about pop fandom.

Mawby Room, Kellogg College,
62 Banbury Road
5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm

All are welcome and no bookings are necessary.

Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan

http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/CW

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s “The Girl Of Ink And Stars” shortlisted for Waterstones Children’s Book Prize

Posted on February 13, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Girl Of Ink And Stars has been shortlisted for Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in the Young Readers category.

“Kiran Millwood-Hargrave … offers us the rich allegories of a young girl fighting for truth against oppression…”

The winner will be announced on 30th March 2017.

More information on the shortlist and the prize.

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MSt alumna Daisy Johnson longlisted for Sunday Times EFG Short Story award

Posted on February 13, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

Photo from Eve White agency

MSt alumna Daisy Johnson’s short story “Blood Rites” has been longlisted for the 2017 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. The shortlist will be announced on March 19th, and the winner on April 27th.

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MSt alumna Sarvat Husain’s novel “This Wide Night” launch, 17th March, Oxford

Posted on February 13, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

MSt alumna  Sarvat Hasin’s debut novel, “This Wide Night” will be launched at Blackwell’s Bookshop in Oxford on 17th March 2017.

“A retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Little Women’, but transported to 1970s Karachi, this stunning new novel presents a quiet, seething world of four women in the subcontinent.
Sarvat Hasin was born in London and grew up in Karachi. She studied politics at Royal Holloway, and wrote her debut novel whilst studying for a Creative Writing masters at the University of Oxford. She has also worked as a bookseller and at publishing houses. Her short stories, essays and poetry have appeared widely in journals and anthologies including The Mays Anthology, Diverse Quarterly, Catweazle Magazine and Dawn Newspaper.“

Fri 17 March 2017
7:00 –  8:30 pm

Blackwell’s Bookshop, 51 Broad Street, Oxford

Attendance free, registration required. For more information, visit this page.

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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s “The Girl Of Ink And Stars” shortlisted for inaugural Jhalak Prize

Posted on February 13, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

The Jhalak Prize “seeks to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers, and the overall winner will be presented with a prize of £1,000. The shortlist consists of fiction, YA, non-fiction, debuts, short stories and genre.”

This year’s judges are author and co-founder of the award, Sunny Singh (chair), YA author Catherine Johnson, author and poet Alex Wheatle MBE, poet and broadcaster Musa Okwonga and Booker-longlisted fiction writer Yvvette Edwards.

For more about the prize and the shortlist, visit the Jhalak Prize website. The winner will be announced on 17th March 2017.

For more about The Girl of Ink and Stars, visit the publisher’s page.

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MSt alumna Sabyn Javeri’s novel “Nobody Killed Her” launched at Karachi Literature Festival

Posted on February 13, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

 

MSt alumna Sabyn Javeri’s novel Nobody Killed Her (HarperCollins, 2017) was launched at Karachi Literature Festival on Saturday 11th February 2017. The novel is available to pre-order on Amazon.

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Poetry Society Annual Lecture, with Jan Wagner. 20 February 2017

Posted on February 9, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

Jan Wagner Image: Alberto Novelli, Villa Massimo

The Poetry Society Annual Lecture in partnership with New College Oxford, by the German poet and translator, Jan Wagner.

The Shedding of Skins and Schemes: a voice of one’s own and the voices of others

“Jan Wagner is the outstanding German poet of his generation. His lecture, delivered in English, is on influence and the exchange of poetic ideas across borders; of the teachers poets must find for themselves (and then distance themselves from again). Interspersed with readings of some of his own poems, Wagner’s lecture draws on poets such as Rimbaud, Heym and Brecht, Popa, Pound and Hughes, and the poet-translators who have carried their work between cultures.

Wagner’s collection Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees (Arc), translated by Iain Galbraith, won the Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize 2015. He has translated into German poets including Armitage, MacNeice, Shapcott, Simic and Sweeney.”

New College, Oxford. Monday 20 February 2017, 7.00 – 8.30 pm

Tickets free, RSVP to Oliver Fox by email to marketing@poetrysociety.org.uk

For more information, visit the Poetry Society page.

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