Congratulations to Dr Jami Rogers (Research Assistant, Multicultural Shakespeare, and Act for Change Committee) and Sita Thomas (PhD student) on their essays in Shakespeare Race and Performance: The Diverse Bard, published this week by Routledge. The collection is edited by Dr Delia Jarrett-Macauley, formerly a postdoctoral fellow with the Multicultural Shakespeare Project (2013-15).

Congratulations to Elizabeth Parker, ELCW alumna, on her recently published collection Antinopolis (Eyewear 2016).

"This is an exceptionally fresh debut collection. The originality, drama and memorability of Elizabeth Parker's poems work a potent magic. Antinopolis marks the arrival of an excellent new talent." David Morley

Lizzie has been shortlisted for The Bridport Prize and the Melita Hume Prize and has been published in Magma, Raceme, and The Stony Thursday Book. She lives in Bristol and is a member of the Bristol poetry group, The Spoke.

Congratulations to Sarah Moss on the publication of her most recent novel, The Tidal Zone (Granta 2016), which has been widely reviewed.

Today is the on-campus launch for Palimpsest, the 2016 MA Writing anthology.

We'd like to show our thanks and gratitude to all those who have helped and supported us over the year. It's going to be an informal celebration - there will be wine/beer/soft drinks/nibbles and, the star of the show: the books!

Writers' Room, Millburn House

5.30 p.m. onwards, Thursday 30 June (come and go whenever's best for you)

p.s. Please email mawanthology@gmail.com to reserve your copy of Palimpsest, if you would like one (or more!) but you're unable to attend.

Congratulations to Daryl Qilin Yam, who is set to become a published author the same year he graduates. His highly anticipated fiction title, Kappa Quartet is published by Epigram Books and is due to be launched at the Singapore Writers festival in November this year, where he is set to be a featured author. You can read the news story here, and also in the Straits Times.