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Scholarships available for MAs in Publishing
Scholarships are available for students starting one of the MAs in Publishing in the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies in September 2009.
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies is delighted to offer the following scholarships for students entering postgraduate courses in 2009-10:
- Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies Scholarship (International)
- John Henry Brookes Scholarships (Home/EU and International)
- Cambridge Publishing Scholarship (Home/EU and International)
- Hachette Livre UK Publishing Scholarship (Home/EU)
- Macmillan Publishing Scholarship (Home/EU and International)
- Publishing Training Centre Diversity Scholarship (UK resident)
Further information on these Departmental Scholarships is available from our Scholarships page. Details of University and external funding opportunities are available here.
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Publishing Students hand-press print at the Bodleian
Students from the MAs in Publishing at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University recently visited the Bodleian Library, where they learned about the theory and practice of hand-press printing.
Guided by Paul Nash (who is also a PhD student at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies), students found out more about the development of printing in the 15th century, and then had the opportunity to set their own type and print a keepsake. MA student Marina Debattista writes about the experience:
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Creative Writing Fellow Patience Agbabi contributes to The Guardian pamphlets
This Saturday (20th September), the Guardian starts a week-long series of pamphlets on Creative Writing. Patience Agbabi, newly appointed Creative Writing Fellow for the new MA at Oxford Brookes, has written the Poetry issue in this series, which will be featured in Sunday's Observer. Patience, who recently attended the launch of the new MA in Creative Writing, is author of Bloodshot Monochrome (2008) and Transformatrix (2000).
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Philip Pullman to be Creative Writing Fellow for MA in Creative Writing
Philip Pullman has agreed to be one of the new Fellows for Oxford Brookes' forthcoming MA in Creative Writing, and will be launching the course in September.
The new and exciting MA will bring opportunities for writers to develop their work across a wide range of genres, including screen writing.
Teaching on the course will be novelist James Hawes (A White Merc with Fins , Rancid Aluminium and most recently Speak for England) and poet Jane Yeh (Marabou and Teen Spies), as well as other Creative Writing Fellows who will be announced shortly.
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MA Publishing students win World Bank scholarships for 2008
Two students on the MA in Publishing programme have won scholarships to work at the World Bank in Washington for three months this summer.
In 2006, with the goal of broadening its talent pool, the Office of Diversity Programs and the Office of the Publisher at the World Bank in Washington created the World Bank Publishing Internship Prize, to be awarded annually to three students studying publishing. The winners each receive an award of $7,500, to cover travel and their living expenses during their three-month internship at the World Bank in Washington
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Graduate Publishing Scholarships
Graduate Publishing Scholarships for 2008
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies is delighted to announce four new scholarships for students on the MA in Publishing programmes at Oxford Brookes University starting their studies in September 2008. The four new scholarships are:
- Cambridge Publishing Scholarship – award of £1,500
- Hachette Livre UK Publishing Scholarship – award of £1,500
- Publishing Training Centre Diversity Scholarship – award of £5,000
- Random House Group Publishing Scholarship – award of £1,500
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New MA in Creative Writing
From September 2008 we will be running a new MA in Creative Writing:
This course will provide students with excellent opportunities to pursue their writing at postgraduate level in different genres and for different audiences. The course will be taught by leading contemporary writers, will include a programme of invited speakers and connections to the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, and will make full use of our situation in Oxford, a wonderful place to be a writer!
More news and details, including information on how to apply, please get in touch with the Admissions Tutor, by calling 01865 484127 or emailing .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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MA in History of Medicine students are published in the Reinvention Journal
Two MA in History of Medicine students have had articles published in Reinvention: A Journal of Undergraduate Research. Fraser Joyce has published 'Prostitution and the Nineteenth Century: In Search of the "Great Social Evil"' and Lauren Paice has published 'Overspill Policy and the Glasgow Slum Clearance Project in the Twentieth Century: From One Nightmare to Another?'
The two articles are available at the Reinvention Journal web site.
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The art of bookmaking
Just before Easter a group of MA in Publishing students at Oxford Brookes visited the book printer Biddles in Norfolk.
Chris Boor (MA publishing student) writes:
‘There's something decidedly satisfying about getting one's hands dirty in the line of work. Especially when the result of the labour was a book lovingly crafted by my own fair hands. Making our own books (technically making me a bookmaker?) was just one aspect of the visit to Biddles in Kings Lynn.
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Leipzig Book Fair
The 2008 Leipziger Buchmesse was held from 13 to 16 March 2008. This is an important spring event in Germany for the promotion of books from central and eastern Europe. The Fair had around 2,300 exhibitors and in the previous year attracted over 125,000 visitors. The Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding was given to the Dutch writer Geert Mak, author of In Europa (2004).
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 02 Apr 2008 around 9am
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