St Andrews hall makes Booker shortlist
A graduate of the St Andrews M.Litt in Creative Writing has won a place on this year's Man Booker Prize shortlist with her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo.
A graduate of the St Andrews M.Litt in Creative Writing has won a place on this year's Man Booker Prize shortlist with her second novel, The Electric Michelangelo.
CAPTION: Winner of this year's Dan Hemingway Prize (centre) Holly Culbreath, with members of the Hemingway family and judges.
Don Paterson, the Dundonian poet, musician and lecturer in creative writing at the University of St Andrews, has won the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Poetry with his fourth collection, Landing Light.
Excluding libraries, The Poetry House at the School of English is the biggest building in Britain devoted to the reading and writing of poetry.
Creative Writing students from the University of St Andrews will join forces with Fine Arts students from Duncan of Jordanstone College tomorrow (Friday May 23rd) to produce a show full of surprises.
Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Paul Muldoon, will discuss his craft and perform readings of his work during a visit to the University of St Andrews this week.
Students will be rewarded for their creative writing skills today (Tuesday 6th May, 2003) at the University of St Andrew's Student Essay Competition Awards Ceremony.
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CAPTION: Martin Crawford, the final-year undergraduate, who organised the book.
*Pic caption - A L Kennedy at St Andrew statue, St Andrews. Credit - Alan Richardson*