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.
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.
(image from PEN Ackerely website)
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.
MSt tutor Roopa Farooki has been shortlisted for the Commonword Diversity Writing for Children Prize, a prize that encourages diverse characters in children’s fiction, for her teen novel, Jay Zed Black. The winner will be announced on the 11th of October at Chapter One Bookshop (more details on the prize website)
MSt tutor Anna Beer’s Fulbright Frontier’s lecture “Right Place, Right Time: Women composers and their creative communities”.
MSt tutor Jamie McKendrick (Selected Poems, recommended by William Boyd) and alumna Daisy Johnson (Fen, recommended by Sarah Perry) feature in The Guardian‘s The Best Books for Summer 2016 reading list.
MSt tutor Sarah Bakwell (and others) has recommended a 2016 summer read (well “more chilly than summery perhaps, but the richest book I’ve read recently”) in the Financial Times.
MSt tutor Roopa Farooki has been long listed for the Commonword Children’s Diverse Writing Prize, 2016.
MSt tutor Ben Brown’s play 3 Dias En Mayo (Three Days in May) will be performed from 29 July to 25 September 2016 at the Teatro Helenico in Mexico City.
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