Creative Writing News
Student and tutor publications, articles, video and other news from across our creative writing programmes
Creative Writing Summer School
Alumna Marni Graff will publish her fourth novel, Death Unscripted: A Trudy Genova Manhattan Mystery, in July; 
alumna Dina Gold's book, Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice at Krausenstrasse 17/18, Berlin, will be published in June.
Diploma in Creative Writing
Alumna Rowena Warwick came joint third for the 2015 Hippocrates Prize NHS section for her poem 'Mrs Noone'; one small freedom sets the stage for better days in apartheid South Africa, in student Gail Anderson's creative nonfiction piece First Day, published in Hippocampus Magazine; student Sandra Gee's short story The Teacher has been published in Oxfordshire Libraries Short Story Competition Anthology.
Master's in Creative Writing
Alumna Maya Popa won first prize (£5,000) in the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine for a poem inspired by her neuroscientist great-grandfather; student Bette Adriaanse published her novel Rus Like Everyone Else in December, and has a post on our Master's in Creative Writing blog on Writing, the course and getting published; student Daisy Johnson writes of her recent two book deal with Jonathan Cape in her blog post, On getting an offer for my writing.
Tutor Nicoletta Demetriou's has a TEDx talk available for viewing: Look deeper - write - the wonders of writing; and tutor Roopa Farooki's article (commissioned by the Royal Literary Fund) Monsters in Caves, urges 'Tap the wellsprings of the unconscious mind and your writing will soar'.
Published 1 June 2015