{"id":2158,"date":"2023-03-08T14:07:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T14:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2023-03-08T14:08:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T14:08:36","slug":"course-director-dr-clare-morgan-appearing-at-the-oxford-literary-festival-on-31-march-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=2158","title":{"rendered":"Course Director Dr Clare Morgan appearing at the Oxford Literary Festival on 31 March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>On 31 March at 6pm, MSt Course Director Dr Clare Morgan will be in conversation with fellow writer Susan Sellers<\/strong>, discussing how and why the radically experimental and pioneering writers Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield continue to inspire contemporary writing. They\u2019ll be relating their discussion to their own recently published works of fiction,\u00a0<em>Scar Tissue<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Firebird: a Bloomsbury Love Story.\u00a0<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Further information about this and other events taking place as part of the Oxford Literary Festival can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordliteraryfestival.org\/literature-events\/2023\/march-31\/conversations-across-time-virginia-woolf-and-katherine-mansfield\">here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:51.13619%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2159\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?attachment_id=2159\" 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They\u2019ll be relating their discussion to their own recently published works of fiction,\u00a0Scar Tissue\u00a0and\u00a0Firebird: a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-publications","category-tutor_news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-yO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":415,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=415","url_meta":{"origin":2158,"position":0},"title":"Clare Morgan, Director of the MSt, &#8220;The Ruffian in the Market Place&#8221; at the Oxford Literary Festival, 21 Mar 2013","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"February 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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