‘What is Women’s Writing?’ The Gender, Literature and Culture Seminar, Oxford, 25th October 2013

Organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Group and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
For Michaelmas Term 2013, the topic is The Creative and the Critical.
The programme consists of three seminars and a workshop.
Venue: Room 11 at the Exam Schools on High Street, Oxford.
All are welcome, and refreshments will be provided.

Opening seminar
Friday, 25 October (week 2), 2-3.30 p.m.
Dr. Clare Morgan, Director MSt Creative Writing.
Dr Morgan writes both short and long fiction. Her work has been widely anthologized and commissioned for radio, and her novel A Book for All and None (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011) was published in paperback in February 2012. Dr Morgan recently engaged in the research project ‘Living with Rivers’, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, which explores the role of creative writing in environmental issues. She is a widely published literary critic and a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement.

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Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing: MSt tutor, novelist Rebecca Abrams, 26 November 2013

“Writing Historical Fiction”

Seminar Convenor:  Dr Clare Morgan

Mawby Room, Kellogg College,

62 Banbury Road

5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm

http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/creativewriting.php

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Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing: novelist Elanor Dymott, 29 October 2013

“On Writing in Place and in Time”

Seminar Convenor:  Dr Clare Morgan

Mawby Room, Kellogg College,

62 Banbury Road

5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm

http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/creativewriting.php

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Reading by winners of the Parallel Universe Poetry Competition, 7th October 2013

7.30 pm, Friday 11 October at the Radcliffe Science Library.

For further details contact ceri.lloyd@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

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MSt Alumnus Prajwal Parajuly on 2013 Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist

Prajwal Parajuly’s collection of short stories The Gurkha’s Daughter has been shortlisted for the 2013 Dylan Thomas Prize.

More on the Wales Online website.

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Paul Darby Prize (stage): closing date 28 Feb 2014

The Paul Darby Prize launches on 10 September 2013.
Prize of £1,000 and a staging of the play at the  Questors Theatre, West London.

Entry fee of £5

Further Information at the Paul Darby Prize blogspot.

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Cinnamon Single Poem Competition, closing date 30 Sept 2013

Judge: Philip Gross

Entry fee: £4 per poem / £10 for 3 poems

For more information, visit the Cinnamon Press Competition webpage.

 

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Oxford launch of MSt student Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s poetry collection, Splitfish

With readings by

Claire Trévien
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Dan Holloway

7 pm,  Saturday, 28 September 2013 at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore, 34 Walton Street, OX2 6AU Oxford
Entry: £2 , to support the bookshop.

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MSt Tutor Amal Chatterjee OpEd in Times of India, Huffington Post, 23 Sep 2013

wtih Siddharth Chatterjee

Times of India: Start with Sri Lanka

Huffington Post: A Good Neighbour

Economic Times: Is India a bully to neighbouring countries?

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The London Magazine Short Story Competition 2013, closing date 31 Oct 2013

First prize: £500, Second prize: £300, Third prize: £200

Entry Fee: £10 per story.

More details from The London Magazine

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