“Breaking the mould / Arab women in the Arab spring”
For more information see http://swivel-live.co.uk/call-for-writers/
Entry is free, closing date 20 February 2013.
Congratulations to MSt alumnus David Shook, whose book Our Obsidian Tongues is to be published by by Eyewear in spring, 2013.
Publication details will appear on the Eyewear Books page.
Lilith Magazine is sponsoring its annual fiction contest with a closing deadline of March 15, 2013.
“We are looking for stories that speak to the experiences of Jewish women everywhere.”
First prize is publication and $250; there is no entry fee. For more details about how to submit manuscripts, please go to the Lilith Magazine Fiction contest website.
The Courtyard’s 7th King’s Cross Award for New Writing for the stage is open for submissions between 7th January and 30th April 2013.
The Award is open to writers for the stage resident in the UK or Republic of Ireland.
Scripts must be unpublished and unperformed.
The entry fee is £10.
Further details are on the Award webpage.
The White Review has announced an annual White Review Short Story Prize, judged in 2013 by a panel including Booker Prize-shortlisted author Deborah Levy and awarded by Tom McCarthy.
Supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, the prize awards £2,500 to the best piece of short fiction by an unpublished writer resident in Great Britain and Ireland.
The competition is open for submissions via the website http://www.thewhitereview.org/. The deadline is 1 March 2013. The prize will be awarded at a ceremony in March 2013.
For more information, see http://www.thewhitereview.org/the-white-review-prize/ or contact editors Jacques Testard and Benjamin Eastham on editors@thewhitereview.org
or +442070528420/+447772249942.
The International Journal of Literary Nonfiction, published by Loyola Marymount University, is calling for submissions of “Literary nonfiction essay, memoir, commentary” (1000-5000 words) as well as “Literary nonfiction narrative poetry” (and black & white art and photography)
Email submissions to: editor@thetruthaboutthefact.com
http://thetruthaboutthefact.com
Creative Writing Seminar Series
Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing
Stopforth Metcalfe Room, Kellogg College,62 Banbury Road
4.45pm (refreshments) for 5.15pm
Hilary Term Week 3:
Tuesday 29 January 2013
Roopa Farooki:
“The Flying Man: Nationality and the Immigrant Identity ”
Roopa Farooki is the author of five critically acclaimed novels (The Flying Man, Half Life, The Way Things Look to Me, Corner Shop, Bitter Sweets) which have been shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and the Muslim Writers’ Awards, and also been longlisted for the Orange Prize (twice), the DSC South Asian Literature Prize and the Impac Dublin Literary Award. Her books have been published internationally in a dozen countries across Europe, and in the US, and she has written for the Guardian, Telegraph and Daily Mail. She is currently working on her sixth novel, to be published with Headline in 2014.
Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan
http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/creativewriting.php
Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing
Stopforth Metcalfe Room, Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road
4.45pm (refreshments) for 5.15pm
Tuesday 26 February 2013
Lesley Saunders:
“Parsimony & Provisionality:
Do poetry & science have
interesting things in common?”
Lesley Saunders is the author of four collections of poetry, including Christina the Astonishing, which she co-wrote with Jane Draycott. Her latest book is Cloud Camera (Two Rivers Press 2012), which has been described as ‘a cabinet of curiosities, assembled by an enquiring mind to delight, astound and edify… Saunders dresses her discoveries in language that is precise, evocative and as grimly meaningful as fairy tales’. Her talk – which will also draw on her current experiences as writer-in-residence at the Oxford Museum of the History of Science – will invite us to consider the kinds of connections that can, and have been, made between poetry and science.
Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan
http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/creativewriting.php
The BBC’s Writers Room has a good list of current and upcoming screen- and stage-writing opportunities.
Go to the BBC Writers Room: Opportunities
MSt tutor Jane Draycott and Bernard O’Donoghue will judge the Troubadour International Poetry Prizeon on December 3rd, 2012.
Prize announcement and readings: http://www.coffeehousepoetry.org/
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