MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Girl of Ink and Stars, which is The Bookseller‘s One to Watch and Editor’s Choice for May, launches at Daunt Books in London on 3rd May, and at Blackwell’s in Oxford on 5th May.
The first ‘opera’ written by a woman … Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola d’Alcina in Brighton, 2015. Photograph: Robert Piwko/BREMF , published in The Guardian, 2 April 2016.
MSt tutor Anna Beer’s article on “Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann are familiar names, but what of Fanny and Clara? Anna Beer on why we should be listening to Caccini and Strozzi as well as Mozart and Beethoven” appeared in The Guardian.
Read the article online: “The sound of silence: classical music’s forgotten women“
MSt alumna Sabyn Javeri is to publish two novels, the first of which is a “dark political thriller titled Nobody Killed Her”, with HarperCollins India and Fourth Estate (in the UK).
The Oxford launch of MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse’s novel is on April 23rd at 7 pm in the Albion Beatnik
Jo Cerys’ Radio 6 conversation with MSt student Camille Ralphs about the Pendle Witch trials, is now available online. You can also read more about Camille’s “ellegy in 14 spels” on the Emma Press web page.
MSt tutor Anna Beer’s conversation with Jo Frost, about Anna’s new book , Sounds and Sweet Airs, is now available to listen to on Radio 6. More information here, and you can listen to the programme online.
MSt tutor Jane Draycott will be conducting a poetry masterclass at the Stratford Literary Festival.
From the festival website: “A poetry-writing workshop to spark new ideas for beginners and aspiring new poets led by award-winning poet Jane Draycott…
MSt alumnus Pat Toland and student Madiha Bataineh were longlisted for the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Prize, 2015.
MSt tutor Alice Jolly’s new novel, Between The Regions Of Kindness is to be published by Unbound in 2016. Proceeds from the book will go to First Story “an amazing charity who change lives through writing“.
You can read more about Alice book and how to support it by clicking on the image above, or by going to the book’s web page
MSt almuna Bette Adriaanse’s novel Rus, published by Unnamed Press, was launched in London on March 3rd .
(all pictures by Andy Baggarley. Thanks to Bridget Arsenault too)
Read more about Rus.
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