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.
“Why is it, asks Anna Beer, that male composers have consistently eclipsed their female counterparts? The solution, she admits, is more complicated than simply rewriting music history “on the principle of add women and stir”. In probing deeper, she has given us a compelling account of eight women composers’ lives and the many and various difficulties they encountered.”
MSt tutor Alice Jolly’s Dead Babies and Seaside Towns has been shortlisted for the Pen / Ackerley Prize 2016
MSt tutor Roopa Farooki’s podcast for the Royal Literary Fund Fellowship, “4 minutes on life changing literature”, is now online.
Listen to it here: “When I finally fell asleep it was to the thundering of hooves”.
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