Clare Morgan, Director of the MSt, “The Ruffian in the Market Place” at the Oxford Literary Festival, 21 Mar 2013

Clare Morgan (Director, MSt) and Susan Sellers (Professor, English, St Andrew’s University) on

The Ruffian in the Market Place: What Do We Read Fiction For?

“Drawing on literary predecessors as varied as Jane Austen, Henry Miller, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Franz Kafka and P. D. James, Morgan and Sellers will share with the audience the challenges, the solutions, and the excitements of writing such fiction, in relation to their own published and forthcoming work.”

Thursday 21 March 2013, 4.00 pm

Venue: Bodleian, Convocation HouseMore information at the Oxford Literary Festival event page.

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MSt tutor George Szirtes: new work, 2012/13

MSt tutor George Szirtes has several recent publications:

Poetry

Bad Machine (UK Bloodaxe, 2013)
Bad Machine (UK Sheeps Meadow, 2013)

Poems for Children

In the Land of the Giants (Salt 2012)

Translation

Yudit Kiss: The Summer My Father Died (Telegram)
László Krasznahorkai: Satantango (New Directions, US, TuskarRock, UK)

Co-edited collection
In Their Own Words: Contemporary Poets on the Poetry, co-edited with Helen
Ivory (Salt, 2012)

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MSt student Prajwal Parajuly’s short story collection: The Gurkha’s Daughter

MSt student Prajwal Parajuly’s  The Gurkha’s Daughter: Stories (Quercus, 3 Jan 2013), a collection of stories about Gurkhas, Darjeeling, Kalimpong and the world, was number four on the Amazon “Hot New Releases” on 13 November 2012.

Update: Prajwal will be reading at the Albion Beatnik Bookshop on 7th February 2013.

The Lady describes his collection as

“A collection of finely crafted, vibrant stories that focus on the minutiae of the life of the Nepalese community in their homeland and abroad. Stylistically reminiscent of Raymond Carver, while at the same time opening a door on to an unfamiliar world.”

The Guardian review speaks of its “energetic play of perspectives” and reviews have appeared in a number of other newspapers and journals.

Read an interview on Republica with Prajwal while he was doing his MSt.

Prajwal’s book is available  in bookshops and on Amazon.

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The Mays Anthology: call for submissions (closing 2nd Mar 2013)

The Mays Anthology publishes new student writing and art from Cambridge and Oxford Universities. Submissions for publication in the 2013 edition are open. Special consideration will be given to works that adhere clearly to the theme of PLAY.

*SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES*

INDIVIDUAL: No more than three individual submissions in any mode (poetry, fiction, drama, screenplay, graphic novel, the essay, visual arts, or any other genre), up to a total of four A4 pages. Each piece of work should start on a new page.

COLLABORATIVE: The Mays #21 will emphasise creative collaboration. Each person may submit up to two collaborative works in addition to individual submissions. Collaborative works should be submitted by ONE collaborator, not multiple times by all those involved; nobody may participate in more than two submissions. They can be in any mode or
modes(interdisciplinary if desired) and each collaborative submission must be no more than three A4 pages.

FORMATTING GUIDELINES: Literary submissions should be saved as .docx
or .doc and formatted in Times New Roman font, size 12. Please state
in your accompanying email which, if any, of your submissions are
excerpts from longer works.

HOW TO SUBMIT:
Email your submissions to mays21submissions@gmail.com before 02/03/2013. Submissions must not have been previously published.

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Wenlock Poetry Competition: closing date 6th Feb 2013

The 2013 Wenlock Poetry Competition is now open for entries to anyone age 17 and over. Up to 5 original poems, maximum 40 lines, on any subject, can be submitted. Entry fee is £5.00 per poem.

· 1st prize  £500
· 2nd prize £200
· 3rd prize £100

Shortlisted entries will be judged by Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate. Winners will be invited to read at an awards ceremony on Saturday 6th April in Much Wenlock as part of Wenlock Poetry Festival 2013.

More information and details on how to enter can be found on the Wenlock Poetry Festival website.

Closing Date: Wed 6 Feb 2013
Entry fee: £5.00 per poem

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Clare Morgan, Director of the MSt, reviews Kirsty Gunn in the Times Literary Supplement

Clare Morgan, Director of the MSt, reviewed Kirsty Gunn in the Times Literary Supplement.

Read the review (for TLS subscribers/behind paywall).

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MSt alumnus Ioanna Mavrou’s audio story on Drum Literary magazine

MSt alumnus Ioanna Mavrou‘s audio story “Lucky Cat” is now up on the Drum Literary Magazine’s website. Go to
http://drumlitmag.com/index.php?page=sounds&category=Issue_32._January_2013
to hear the story.

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MSt alumnus Catherine Higgins-Moore, poems in “Embers of Words- An Irish Anthology of Migrant Poetry”

MSt alumnus Catherine Higgins-Moore  has  four poems  in Embers of Words- An Irish Anthology of Migrant Poetry.

The anthology can be bought on Amazon or from Choice Publishing.

Catherine’s short fiction has been shortlisted for The Asham Award –  and her poetry is being published in Heart Shoots, an anthology where all proceeds go towards cancer research. Other contributing writers include Maya Angelou, John Betjeman, Seamus Heaney and Bob Dylan.

Copies of Heart Shoots, publication date Easter 2013, can be pre-ordered from the Indigo Dreams Booskhop.

 

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Jane Martin Poetry Prize (Girton College, Cambridge): closing date

Girton College’s (University of Cambridge) 2013 national Jane Martin Poetry Prize is now open for submissions. The competition will be judged by an eminent panel including Gillian Beer and Caroline Bergvall. The winner will receive £1000 and the opportunity to read at a high profile poetry event.

For more information see http://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/jane-martin-poetry-prize

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Pembroke College: Fantasy Literature Lecture series: 18 Jan 2013

Pembroke college have invited author Kij Johnson to deliver the inaugural Pembroke Lecture on Fantasy Literature in honour of JRR Tolkien.

The first annual lecture in the series designed to explore the history and current state of fantasy literature will take place on January 18th at 6 pm.

Professor Johnson will also offer a fiction masterclass at Pembroke on January 19th from 10 am until noon.

Both the lecture and the fiction masterclass are free and open to the public, but online registration is required to reserve a place on the fiction course.

Please go to pembrokemcr.com/Tolkien for more information.

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