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The Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing fosters a vibrant community of writers and researchers whose work crosses traditional boundaries of genre and culture. The Centre hosts both a masterclass and a research seminar series. The twice-termly research seminars focus on topics of contemporary interest to creative writing practitioners and scholars. It complements but is distinct from the  Master of Studies in Creative Writing .

About the Centre

Since it was established the Centre has developed a strong reputation for creative and intellectual excellence. In addition to its regular programme of research activities, the Centre has sponsored, jointly with the Radcliffe Science Library, the Poetry and Science competition, and Oxford Today’s alumni short story competition. The Centre has also co-published with Blackwell, Initiate: An Oxford Anthology of New Writing ,  showcasing emergent writers from the MSt in Creative Writing along with established practitioners in fiction, poetry and drama.

The Centre is directed by Dr Clare Morgan, with the support of an advisory panel. Dr Morgan is a Fellow of Kellogg College and Director of the Master of Studies in Creative Writing. Her most recent publication is  A Book for all and None , published in paperback by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2012. She has also published a collection of stories,  An Affair of the Heart . Her book from her cross genre research in business and creative writing, What Poetry Brings to Business , was published by University of Michigan press in 2010.

The Centre’s Advisory Panel includes Dr Chris Davies, former Vice President of Kellogg College, and Dr Anna Beer, Visiting Fellow, and Rose Solari, Visiting Writer and researcher.

Support the Centre

The Centre relies on the generosity of its supporters to help sustain its innovative and dynamic series of programmes.  If you would like to be involved in supporting the Centre, please contact  Dr Clare Morgan .

Master of Studies in Creative Writing

The Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing is distinct from the Master of Studies in Creative Writing, however many associates of the Centre share a close connection with the MSt programme, including the Centre’s Director Clare Morgan. Watch Clare, and other Centre associates, talking about the Master’s programme and creative writing at Oxford.

Centre Activities

Publications and Papers

LIVING WITH RIVERS Publications include: “Re-connecting with a neglected river through imaginative engagement.”  Ecology and Society 15(3): 18 ; Selman, P., C. Carter, A. Lawrence and C. Morgan “Raising Catchment Consciousness” in  Sustainable communities : skills and learning for place-making , eds. Sadler, Sue, Green, Anne E, Wong, Cecilia and Rogerson, Robert, University of Hertfordshire Press; P Selman, C Carter, C Morgan, A Lawrence. My River Dearne  (anthology); ed. Clare Morgan Papers include: National Association of Writers in Education annual conference: “The use of creative writing in generating imaginative engagement with environmental issues”: Dr Clare Morgan, Kellogg College

The Kellogg College Seminar, Oxford University: “Creative Writing and the Environment”: Prof Paul Selman, University of Sheffield; Dr Clare Morgan, Kellogg College

Research and Seminars

Interdisplinary Research

The Centre for Creative Writing engages in collaborative research projects of an interdisciplinary nature, focusing on questions of contemporary relevance.

The  Living with Rivers  project, conducted jointly between the Centre for Creative Writing, Sheffield University and Forest Research, was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.  The project examined the role of creative writing in the development of imaginative engagement with environmental issues in relation to river basins.  It involved the running of creative writing workshops for a group from the local community of the Dearne Valley in Yorkshire, facilitated by Clare Morgan, who has also edited an anthology of participants’ work, titled  My River Dearne .   Read the anthology here .

If you are interested in learning more about the  Living with Rivers  project, you can read the resulting open access paper Selman, P., C. Carter, A. Lawrence and C. Morgan 2010. “ Re-connecting with a neglected river through imaginative engagement .”  Ecology and Society 15(3): 18 .

The project was later extended into the visual arts, by collaborating with a Workers Educational Association art group. This involved producing an ambitious frieze of the Dearne landscape throughout history. As part of its development,  Clare Morgan led a group of local creative writers who `gave voice´ to characters in the frieze. The work culminated in an exhibition in Goldthorpe Library and was funded by University of Sheffield Knowledge Transfer Rapid Research Fund, and the Royal Society for Protection of Birds.

Research Seminar Series – selected abstracts and speakers

Rose Solari: : “Navigating Time: Narrative structure and believability in the contemporary multiple time-frame novel” One robust trend in contemporary fiction is the novel that juxtaposes multiple time frames and narratives. Unlike purely historical novels, these works are not linear; the through-line is not chronological but exploratory, and often revolves around a particular character’s quest to solve a historical, spiritual, or personal mystery.  Recent multi-time-frame novels include Marina Warner’s  The Leto Bundle , Barry Unsworth’s  Stone Virgin , Penelope Lively’s  The Photograph , and Don DeLillo’s  Underworld , as well as, of course,  Possession , perhaps the ur-novel of this genre. This seminar explores problems of believability and continuity in the multi-time-frame novel, drawing on the above-mentioned titles, as well as her experience in crafting her own such novel,  A Secret Woman . The author of two previous full-length collections of poetry, Solari will also talk briefly about the ways in which poetic techniques can inform and support fiction.

Professor Susan Sellers: “Writing and Real Life” The seminar explores the interconnections between the real-life object or experience that is often the starting point for writing, and the role of invention and imagination. Drawing on her own experience of fictionalizing two real-life women, Virginia Woolf and her artist sister Vanessa Bell, Professor Sellers addresses such questions as the importance of observation and research, the crucial issue of point of view, the role of the senses in writing, the status of ‘truth’, and the startling and the transformative insights that creatively exploring what is not known may produce.

Contact the Centre

For any enquiries about the work of the Centre please contact Dr Clare Morgan, [email protected]  in the first instance.

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Kellogg College Creative Writing Competition 2023 Final

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Kellogg College Creative Writing Competition 2023 Final

Thu may 18 2023 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm, kellogg college | oxford.

This event is the finals showcase where shortlisted authors are invited to readout their entries.

About the competition

All students, Fellows, Common Room Members, and staff of Kellogg College are invited to submit an original piece of creative writing for the third annual Kellogg College Creative Writing Competition, in association with the Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing.

Please read more about the competition here.

The authors of shortlisted entries will be invited to read out their entries during the competition event, 18 May, 5.30pm. During this event, the winner and runner-up will also be announced. There will be prizes for the winners, which will be redeemable wherever you are in the world. Those short-listed will be invited to attend the guest night dinner on the 18th with a guest, as College guests.

Refreshments from 17:00. Readings will start at 17:30, followed by a drinks reception at 18:30.

First prize is a £50 book voucher donated by College; second place receives a Blackwell’s six month paperback fiction subscription; third place receives one title from either the Oxford World’s Classics or Oxford World’s Classics Hardbacks collection up to the value of £25.00

Your submission can be in any form or genre, including poetry, fiction, flash fiction, drama and non-fiction. Submissions must be written in response to the set topic and must be entire pieces in themselves and not a section of a longer piece. Poems must be 40 lines or fewer, prose must be 500 words or fewer, and dramatic pieces should last for no more than 2 minutes. Entries will be received by the judges anonymously.

Dr Clare Morgan – Director, MSt in Creative Writing, Oxford University, and Fellow of Kellogg College. Clare is a novelist and short story writer, whose most recent collection of stories Scar Tissue (Seren, 2022) was published alongside a reprint of her earlier collection An Affair of the Heart.

Dr Sandie Byrne – Associate Professor in English, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. She is the author of a number of books and chapters on nineteenth-century fiction and twentieth-century poetry.

Frank Egerton – Novelist, Core Course Tutor, MSt in Creative Writing, Oxford University, and Kellogg Common Room Member.

Free and open to all, this event will be taking place both in person and online.

If you are unable to attend after booking to attend in person, please email [email protected] .

There will be a photographer present at the event. Please let the photographer/staff know if you do not wish to be in any video or photographic images which may be published on College website and/or social media.

If you are booking to attend online, you will receive a link with your event reminder email. If you do not receive the link, please email [email protected]

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Kellogg College, 60-62 Banbury Road, Oxford, United Kingdom

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Clare Morgan: Writing the Short Story

Join us for the second Michaelmas term Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing seminar, with novelist and director of Oxford University’s MSt in Creative Writing Clare Morgan.

This seminar is open to all, no booking necessary.

Refreshments will be served from 17:00, the seminar will begin at 17:30.

About Clare Morgan: Clare Morgan is a novelist and short story writer and director of Oxford University’s MSt in Creative Writing. Her stories have been widely anthologized and commissioned by BBC Radio 4, and her new collection, Scar Tissue is published by Seren in September 2022.

• Date : 24 November 2022, 17:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2022)
• Venue : Kellogg College 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN See location on maps.ox Details : Mawby Room
• Speaker : Dr Clare Morgan (Department of Continuing Education, Oxford)
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By Jennifer McCann Published April 5, 2024

Bay College invites the community to celebrate the exemplary work of our students by attending The Creative Collective, which will be held on the Escanaba campus on Thursday, April 18. This event is free and open to the public.

The Creative Collective will begin in the Besse Theater at 3pm ET with a special reading by guest Asher Meunier-Irving, the U.P. Youth Poet Laureate of Delta County. This will be followed by the readings of several Bay College Annual Writing Contest winners, along with media projects created by Digital Cinema students.

From 4 – 6pm ET in the Bay Café, the Student Poster Symposium will be taking place. This event offers students the unique opportunity to showcase their coursework in an open forum by presenting their work in a poster format. Students will display their posters while in attendance, and have the opportunity to explain and discuss their work in more detail if others wish to ask them about it.

“At national conferences, the poster format is a very common mechanism used by upper-undergraduate and graduate students,” says Dr. Matthew Krynicki, Bay College instructor and coordinator of the Student Poster Symposium. “During the Symposium, not only are students developing their presentation skills, they are also preparing themselves for the next level of their education. They are taking part in something that goes on their resume, all the while getting the opportunity to showcase their work and learn about what others are doing.”

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Hughes Creative Writing Fellows’ Craft Conversation

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A reminder that we’re excited to hold our final Hughes Creative Writing Fellows’ Craft Conversation of the year, between the Belarusian poet and translator Valzhyna Mort and our own Samyak Shertok, at 5:00 on Wednesday, April 3, in the Texana Room of Fondren Library. We’ll be having the reception after the event rather than before for this one, so we’ll get right into the conversation at 5:00. For this event, our creative writing fellows lead a public conversation about writing with an author whose work they find especially interesting. If you had the pleasure of hearing Afsheen Farhadi speak with the fiction writer Laura van den Berg last semester, you can look forward to another great evening. We hope to see you there!

Valzhyna Mort is the author of the poetry collections Factory of Tears (2008), Collected Body (2012), and Music for the Dead and Resurrected (2020). She is a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Fellowship, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry, Amy Clampitt fellowship, the Gulf Coast translation prize and the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. Born in Minsk, Belarus, she teaches at Cornell University and writes in English and Belarusian. Most recently, Mort co-translated Julia Cimafiejeva’s Motherfield (Deep Vellum, 2022) alongside Hanif Abdurraqib.

Samyak Shertok’s poems appear in Poetry, The Cincinnati Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. A Fine Arts Work Center Writing Fellow and a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and the Jake Adam York Prize, he has received the Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Poetry, the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Originally from Nepal, he is currently the inaugural Hughes Fellow in Poetry at Southern Methodist University.

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Richard Hermes Lecturer Director, Hughes Fellowships in Creative Writing Department of English Southern Methodist University

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The Comprehensive Guide to Moscow Nightlife

• Posted on April 14, 2018 July 26, 2018
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Moscow’s nightlife scene is thriving, and arguably one of the best the world has to offer – top-notch Russian women, coupled with a never-ending list of venues, Moscow has a little bit of something for everyone’s taste. Moscow nightlife is not for the faint of heart – and if you’re coming, you better be ready to go Friday and Saturday night into the early morning.

This comprehensive guide to Moscow nightlife will run you through the nuts and bolts of all you need to know about Moscow’s nightclubs and give you a solid blueprint to operate with during your time in Moscow.

What you need to know before hitting Moscow nightclubs

Prices in moscow nightlife.

Before you head out and start gaming all the sexy Moscow girls , we have to talk money first. Bring plenty because in Moscow you can never bring a big enough bankroll. Remember, you’re the man so making a fuzz of not paying a drink here or there will not go down well.

Luckily most Moscow clubs don’t do cover fees. Some electro clubs will charge 15-20$, depending on their lineup. There’s the odd club with a minimum spend of 20-30$, which you’ll drop on drinks easily. By and large, you can scope out the venues for free, which is a big plus.

Bottle service is a great deal in Moscow. At top-tier clubs, it starts at 1,000$. That’ll go a long way with premium vodka at 250$, especially if you have three or four guys chipping in. Not to mention that it’s a massive status boost for getting girls, especially at high-end clubs.

Without bottle service, you should estimate a budget of 100-150$ per night. That is if you drink a lot and hit the top clubs with the hottest girls. Scale down for less alcohol and more basic places.

Dress code & Face control

Door policy in Moscow is called “face control” and it’s always the guy behind the two gorillas that gives the green light if you’re in or out.

In Moscow nightlife there’s only one rule when it comes to dress codes:

You can never be underdressed.

People dress A LOT sharper than, say, in the US and that goes for both sexes. For high-end clubs, you definitely want to roll with a sharp blazer and a pocket square, not to mention dress shoes in tip-top condition. Those are the minimum requirements to level the playing field vis a vis with other sharply dressed guys that have a lot more money than you do. Unless you plan to hit explicit electro or underground clubs, which have their own dress code, you are always on the money with that style.

Getting in a Moscow club isn’t as hard as it seems: dress sharp, speak English at the door and look like you’re in the mood to spend all that money that you supposedly have (even if you don’t). That will open almost any door in Moscow’s nightlife for you.

Types of Moscow Nightclubs

In Moscow there are four types of clubs with the accompanying female clientele:

High-end clubs:

These are often crossovers between restaurants and clubs with lots of tables and very little space to dance. Heavy accent on bottle service most of the time but you can work the room from the bar as well. The hottest and most expensive girls in Moscow go there. Bring deep pockets and lots of self-confidence and you have a shot at swooping them.

Regular Mid-level clubs:

They probably resemble more what you’re used to in a nightclub: big dancefloors, stages and more space to roam around. Bottle service will make you stand out more but you can also do well without. You can find all types of girls but most will be in the 6-8 range. Your targets should always be the girls drinking and ideally in pairs. It’s impossible not to swoop if your game is at least half-decent.

Basic clubs/dive bars:

Usually spots with very cheap booze and lax face control. If you’re dressed too sharp and speak no Russian, you might attract the wrong type of attention so be vigilant. If you know the local scene you can swoop 6s and 7s almost at will. Usually students and girls from the suburbs.

Electro/underground clubs:

Home of the hipsters and creatives. Parties there don’t mean meeting girls and getting drunk but doing pills and spacing out to the music. Lots of attractive hipster girls if that is your niche. That is its own scene with a different dress code as well.

What time to go out in Moscow

Moscow nightlife starts late. Don’t show up at bars and preparty spots before 11pm because you’ll feel fairly alone. Peak time is between 1am and 3am. That is also the time of Moscow nightlife’s biggest nuisance: concerts by artists you won’t know and who only distract your girls from drinking and being gamed. From 4am to 6am the regular clubs are emptying out but plenty of people, women included, still hit up one of the many afterparty clubs. Those last till well past 10am.

As far as days go: Fridays and Saturdays are peak days. Thursday is an OK day, all other days are fairly weak and you have to know the right venues.

The Ultimate Moscow Nightclub List

Short disclaimer: I didn’t add basic and electro clubs since you’re coming for the girls, not for the music. This list will give you more options than you’ll be able to handle on a weekend.

Preparty – start here at 11PM

Classic restaurant club with lots of tables and a smallish bar and dancefloor. Come here between 11pm and 12am when the concert is over and they start with the actual party. Even early in the night tons of sexy women here, who lean slightly older (25 and up).

The second floor of the Ugolek restaurant is an extra bar with dim lights and house music tunes. Very small and cozy with a slight hipster vibe but generally draws plenty of attractive women too. A bit slower vibe than Valenok.

Very cool, spread-out venue that has a modern library theme. Not always full with people but when it is, it’s brimming with top-tier women. Slow vibe here and better for grabbing contacts and moving on.

High-end: err on the side of being too early rather than too late because of face control.

Secret Room

Probably the top venue at the moment in Moscow . Very small but wildly popular club, which is crammed with tables but always packed. They do parties on Thursdays and Sundays as well. This club has a hip-hop/high-end theme, meaning most girls are gold diggers, IG models, and tattooed hip hop chicks. Very unfavorable logistics because there is almost no room no move inside the club but the party vibe makes it worth it. Strict face control.

Close to Secret Room and with a much more favorable and spacious three-part layout. This place attracts very hot women but also lots of ball busters and fakes that will leave you blue-balled. Come early because after 4am it starts getting empty fast. Electronic music.

A slightly kitsch restaurant club that plays Russian pop and is full of gold diggers, semi-pros, and men from the Caucasus republics. Thursday is the strongest night but that dynamic might be changing since Secret Room opened its doors. You can swoop here but it will be a struggle.

Mid-level: your sweet spot in terms of ease and attractiveness of girls for an average budget.

Started going downwards in 2018 due to lax face control and this might get even worse with the World Cup. In terms of layout one of the best Moscow nightclubs because it’s very big and bottle service gives you a good edge here. Still attracts lots of cute girls with loose morals but plenty of provincial girls (and guys) as well. Swooping is fairly easy here.

I haven’t been at this place in over a year, ever since it started becoming ground zero for drunken teenagers. Similar clientele to Icon but less chic, younger and drunker. Decent mainstream music that attracts plenty of tourists. Girls are easy here as well.

Sort of a Coyote Ugly (the real one in Moscow sucks) with party music and lots of drunken people licking each others’ faces. Very entertaining with the right amount of alcohol and very easy to pull in there. Don’t think about staying sober in here, you’ll hate it.

Artel Bessonitsa/Shakti Terrace

Electronic music club that is sort of a high-end place with an underground clientele and located between the teenager clubs Icon and Gipsy. Very good music but a bit all over the place with their vibe and their branding. You can swoop almost any type of girl here from high-heeled beauty to coked-up hipsters, provided they’re not too sober.

Afterparty: if by 5AM  you haven’t pulled, it’s time to move here.

Best afterparty spot in terms of trying to get girls. Pretty much no one is sober in there and savage gorilla game goes a long way. Lots of very hot and slutty-looking girls but it can be hard to tell apart who is looking for dick and who is just on drugs but not interested. If by 9-10am you haven’t pulled, it is probably better to surrender.

The hipster alternative for afterparties, where even more drugs are in play. Plenty of attractive girls there but you have to know how to work this type of club. A nicer atmosphere and better music but if you’re desperate to pull, you’ll probably go to Miks.

Weekday jokers: if you’re on the hunt for some sexy Russian girls during the week, here are two tips to make your life easier.

Chesterfield

Ladies night on Wednesdays means this place gets pretty packed with smashed teenagers and 6s and 7s. Don’t pull out the three-piece suit in here because it’s a “simpler” crowd. Definitely your best shot on Wednesdays.

If you haven’t pulled at Chesterfield, you can throw a Hail Mary and hit up Garage’s Black Music Wednesdays. Fills up really late but there are some cute Black Music groupies in here. Very small club. Thursday through Saturday they do afterparties and you have an excellent shot and swooping girls that are probably high.

Shishas Sferum

This is pretty much your only shot on Mondays and Tuesdays because they offer free or almost free drinks for women. A fairly low-class club where you should watch your drinks. As always the case in Moscow, there will be cute girls here on any day of the week but it’s nowhere near as good as on the weekend.

In a nutshell, that is all you need to know about where to meet Moscow girls in nightlife. There are tons of options, and it all depends on what best fits your style, based on the type of girls that you’re looking for.

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Impressions of an expat.

This blog written in the form of fascinating novel-in-progress. Marco North immerses the readers into particular situations expats can face daily but in literary processed version. The blog is widely popular and even is called as «the work of a modern Chekhov».

Site: http://impressionsofanexpat.blogspot.com

Kidding Herself

Kidding Herself is written from the point of view of a five year old girl and is a child’s guide to going out in Moscow. Herself moved to Moscow from London in 2015 with her British Mama, her Russian Papa and her AngloRusski Big Brother. Find out what she thinks about the Kremlin, Red Square, the zoo, more art galleries than she thinks are strictly necessary and the giant Central Children’s Store.

Site: http://kiddingherself.com

FunnyNotesBlog

Mostly the funny notes of Iva coping with Russian life and culture!

Site: https://funnynotesblog.blogspot.ru

Potty diares

This is a blog of an expat mother of two sons, living in Moscow. The author shares her experience on bringing up kids in Moscow, some useful tips and impressions of the city.

Site: http://potty-diaries.blogspot.co.uk

Arty Generation

This is a site about artists and creative people in Moscow.

Site: https://www.artygeneration.com

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