MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s retelling of the Orpheus myth, a poetic graphic novel in collaboration with artist Tom de Freston has is to published by Bloomsbury in 2016. More on that soon.
MSt tutor Marti Leimbach’s new novel Age of Consent is to be published by Penguin Random House in the US and Fourth Estate/Harper Collins in the United Kingdom.
MSt alumna Maya Popa is one of the eighteen finalists for the 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. On 1st September, five of these will be given fellowships, which are awarded “to young poets in the U.S. through a national competition sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. Established in 1989 by the Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly, the fellowships are intended to encourage the further study and writing of poetry.”
The fellowships will be announced on 1st September.
For more information, see Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships
MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou’s collaboration with film maker, Constantinos Terlikkas, ‘The Cypriot Fiddler’, which collects the stories of some of the last surviving professional folk violinists in Cyprus, both Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot, has launched a Kickstarter crowd funding appeal. The campaign ends on 31 August 2015.
The Cypriot Fiddler Kickstarter Campaign
The Cypriot Fiddler on Facebook
Helen Rumbelow of The Times interviewed MSt Tutor Alice Jolly about her book “Dead Babies and Seaside Towns”. You can read the article in The Times (behind paywall).
Inspires magazine describes Roopa Farooki’s novel, The Good Children as “”Evocative of generational change this book probes into the saga of the South Asian migrant experience, and portrays a world of both compassion and violence, and love and loss.”
Read the full recommendation.
MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s podcast for the Royal Literary Fund on the characters and personae poets meet in their writing is now available at the RLF site (http://www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/wa_episode21/)
Other People’s Countries by MSt tutor Patrick McGuiness is the Wales Book of the Year for 2015.
Announcing the award, by Literature Wales and judged this year by Alex Clark, Tessa Hadley and Paul Henry, Paul Henry said:
“The stylistic quality of this brilliant, lyrical memoir is best described through a simile from the book where a bracelet of water “doesn’t run over the stones but flexes like clear muscle over its riverbed.” It’s a poet’s prose at its best – perfectly paced, effortless in its devices. Tender, humorous, moving and, in places, profound, Other People’s Countries reminds us how great writing approaches the essence of Memory.”
Read more about this at the Wales Book of the Year site.
MSt alumna Maya Popa has won the 2015 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
“The £5000 First Prize in the Open Category was awarded to teacher and writer Maya Catherine Popa from New York City for a poem inspired by her neuroscientist great grandfather”
Read about her and the other winners.
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