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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MSt alumna Catherine Higgins-Moore’s “Strange Roof” to be published in May 2017

Posted on February 9, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

 

Catherine Higgins-Moore’s Strange Roof by Finishing Line Press in May 2017, in the New Women’s Voices Series.

‘Catherine Higgins-Moore’s use of language to embolden and communicate experience inspires and excites. She is not afraid of anything. Her confident gritty flair inks life into a world both known and unknown. A joy resides in these pages. A bold and fearless joy.’
-Lisa O’Donnell, The Death of Bees, Winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize

For more information and to pre-order, visit Finishing Line Press.

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MSt alumna Maya Popa’s chapbook “The Bees Have Been Canceled” published Feb 2017

Posted on February 9, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

MSt alumna Maya Popa’s chapbook, The Bees Have Been Canceled: Poems, has been published by New Michigan Press.

‘this remarkable chapbook [is]…annunciatory and regenerative…continually making anew the world it describes’ (Jamie McKendrick)

‘a terrific new voice in poetry, cerebral, distinctive and urbane…’ (Thomas McCarthy)

  • ISBN-10: 1934832596
  • ISBN-13: 978-1934832592

The Bees Have Been Canceled is available on Amazon.

 

 

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Sean O’Brien, Visiting Humanitas-Weidenfeld Professor, lectures at St Anne’s on 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th Feb 2017

Posted on February 7, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

The first of four weekly lectures by distinguished poet Sean O’Brien, Visiting Humanitas-Weidenfeld Professor, is on Tuesday 7th February.

Schedule:

Tuesday 7 February 2017  ‘For dreams are licensed as they never were’. What becomes of the history poem?

Tuesday 14 February 2017 Displacement: Irish poetry and poets of Irish descent in Britain.

Tuesday 21 February 2017   ‘I only am escaped alone to tell thee’ or ‘The Faster We Go the Rounder We Get’.

Tuesday 28 February 2017 In Conversation with Patrick McGuinness

The lectures take place at 5.30 in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre at St Anne’s College. The first lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.  All welcome, no need to book.

Further details.

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Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, 2 February 2017

Posted on January 24, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

“Tango in Stanzas: The Path from Page to Stage”


Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

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

All are welcome and no bookings are necessary.

Is there a difference between a performance poet and a poet who performs their work? In 2015 poet Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch won an Arts Council Creative Wales Award to write, perform and dance Tango in Stanzas, an exploration of poetic metre through the medium of dance. Samantha will trace her creative journey to this performance piece, charting how her poetry has evolved from being primarily page-based to stage-based and examine the way this development has in turn impacted on her creative process.

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch has published three collections of poetry. Her work has been shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year (Not in These Shoes, Picador 2008), the Roland Mathias Prize (Banjo, Picador 2012) and the Michael Marks Award (Lime & Winter, Rack 2014). Samantha’s poems have appeared in Granta, the Financial Times, the Independent and Poetry Wales. She runs a writers’ retreat on the Wales Coastal Path www.writebythecoast.co.uk.

Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan

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

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MSt tutor Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch shortlisted in the 2016 Live Canon International Poetry Competition

Posted on January 7, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

“Spitfire Kitchen” by MSt tutor Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch was shortlisted for the 2016 Live Canon International Poetry Competition.

More on the shortlist, the judge and the winner.

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MSt alumna Maya Popa judge for 2017 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine

Posted on January 4, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

Maya Popa

MSt alumna Maya Popa is to one of the judges for the 2017 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. The other judges are Neal Baer, Jorie Graham, Jackie Kay,  Owen Lewis .

“Now in its 8th year, the Hippocrates Prize has attracted over 8000 entries from over 60 countries, from the Americas to Fiji and Finland to Australasia. All awards are for a single unpublished poem in English of up to 50 lines of verse on a medical theme. ”

More about the prize and the judges.

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MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s “Italy to Lord” is Guardian’s poem of the week, 2nd Jan 2016

Posted on January 4, 2017 by MSt Creative Writing

MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s  poem “Italy to Lord” is The Guardian‘s poem of the week

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