Pierre Zahnd awarded MSt’s FH Pasby prize

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Lisa Sargood, Prof Jonathan Michie, Dr Clare Morgan

Congratulations to Pierre Zahnd, who is this year’s winner of the FH Pasby Prize, and also to Rose Segal, who was named proxime accessit.

The FH Pasby Prize is awarded to the MSt Creative Writing student receiving the highest overall marks for work completed in Year One.

The ceremony was introduced by the Director of the Department for Continuing Education, Jonathan Michie, and the award was presented to Pierre Zahnd by the prize donor, Lisa Sargood.

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MSt tutor Wendy Brandmark’s short story wins 2016 Bridport Prize

MSt tutor Wendy Brandmark’s short story “Cut Loose” has been awarded the 1st prize in the 2016 Bridport Prize competition.

More information on the prize and winners.

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MSt tutor, alumna, and student shortlisted for 2016 Bridport Prize, Poetry

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Poems by MSt tutor Caroline Bird, MSt alumna Harriet MacMillan, and student Mary Jane Holmes were short-listed for the 2016 Bridport  Prize.

The full short list.

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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis reads at the Barbican Library, 19 October

 

 

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at the Barbican Library, London
19 October 2016 / 12:30
Entry is free.

More information from the Barbican Library

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MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s review of Simon Armitage’s “Pearl”

MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s review for PN Review of Oxford Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage’s Pearl is available to read online: http://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=9737

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MSt alumna Elena Kaufman’s collection “Love Bites” to Unbound

MSt alumna Elena Kaufman’s collection Love Bites, has been accepted by Unbound. You can read more about Elena’s book and how to support it by clicking on the below, or by going to the book’s webpage.

 

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MSt alumna Alexandra Strnad’s poems in Wasafiri

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Two poems by MSt alumna Alexandra Strnad are being published in Wasafiri, Issue 87.

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MSt tutor Alice Jolly at the Durham Book Festival, 9th Oct 2016

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MSt tutor Alice Jolly will be appearing at the Durham Book Festival:

“Publisher John Mitchinson talks to Unbound authors Nikesh Shukla and Alice Jolly about the trials and tribulations of crowd-funding a book…”

Sunday 9 October, 11am-12pm
Durham Town Hall (Burlison Gallery)
Tickets: £6/£4.
More information at the event webpage.

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MSt tutor Roopa Farooki in conversation with Jo Good, BBC Radio

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MSt tutor Roopa Farooki is in conversation with Jo Good on BBC Radio London on Wednesday, 24 August 2016 at 1 pm (UK) time. You can listen to the broadcast online here.

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MSt tutor Alice Jolly awarded 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize

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MSt tutor Alice Jolly’s Dead Babies and Seaside Towns (Unbound, 2015) has been awarded the 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize.

Alice Jolly has this evening been announced as the winner of the 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize for her memoir Dead Babies and Seaside Towns (Unbound).  The book chronicles the author and her husband’s quest for a baby after their second child was stillborn.”

More details on the prize website.

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