{"id":1324,"date":"2017-10-12T07:43:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:10:33","slug":"kellogg-college-creative-writing-seminar-series-helen-mort-22-november-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Helen Mort, 22 November 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFailsafe: the value of getting it wrong\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Helen Mort<\/p>\n

Mawby Room, Kellogg College,
\n62 Banbury Road
\n5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm<\/p>\n

All are welcome and no bookings are necessary<\/p>\n

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Helen Mort was born in Sheffield. She has published two poetry collections with Chatto & Windus, ‘Division Street’ (2013) and ‘No Map Could Show Them’ (2016). She won the Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection in 2014. Helen has a volume of short stories forthcoming from Wrecking Ball and a novel forthcoming from Chatto. She is a core creative tutor on Oxford\u2019s MSt in Creative Writing. She also teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk\/researchcentres\/CW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cFailsafe: the value of getting it wrong\u201d Helen Mort Mawby Room, Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road 5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm All are welcome and no bookings are necessary Helen Mort was born in Sheffield. 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