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The Research Centre in Creative Writing

Providing a forum in which creative writers of all genres can share and learn from each other’s research, and use that knowledge in their teaching and practice.

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The Research Centre in Creative Writing aims to support its members in their research by providing opportunities for collaboration, discussion and exchange of ideas both within and beyond their specialist form or genre.

The Centre advances the University’s strategic research themes in critical thinking and effective expression, with the specific aim of bringing together academic and industry perspectives.

We are one of the largest Research Centres at 黑料正能量 and operate on two campuses. The Centre celebrates a wide range of talent, in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, spoken word, scriptwriting, writing for theatre, writing for young people, writing digital, nature writing, professional writing and pedagogical research.

Many of the writers who belong to The Centre are producing work that is transnational in various ways, and there's strong interest in trans-cultural dialogues and collaborations.

Members

Gavin James Bower

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
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Jonathan Lorie

Programme Leader in Creative Writing (Nature and Travel Writing)

Tim Liardet

Professor of Poetry and Senior Lecturer

Lucy English

Professor of Creative Enterprise and the Spoken Word

Anna Freeman

Part Time Lecturer
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Ann-Marie McCormack

Senior Lecturer in Film and Scriptwriting

Gerard Woodward

Professor in Creative Writing
Alexia Casale

Alexia Casale

Reader in Writing for Young People

Nathan Filer

Reader in Creative Writing
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Philip Hensher

Professor of Creative Writing
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Hannah K Chapman

Lecturer in Professional Practice in the Humanities
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Steve Hollyman

Level 5 Leader and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Kate Pullinger

Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media, and Director of the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries

Naomi Alderman

Professor of Creative Writing

Tracy Brain

Professor of Creative Writing and English Literature

Lucy Sweetman

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Professional Writing)
Richard Kerridge

Richard Kerridge

Coordinator of Graduate Studies and Research Management

Our teaching staff have either won or been shortlisted for:

  • The Man Booker Prize
  • The T.S.Eliot Prize
  • The Whitbread Poetry Prize
  • The Costa Prize
  • The Costa Poetry Prize
  • The Ted Hughes Prize for Innovation in Poetry
  • The Bolton Book Award
  • The Betty Trask Award
  • The Macmillan Silver Pen Award
  • The Roger Deakin Award
  • The Authors Club First Novel prize
  • The Orange Award for New Writers
  • The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year
  • The Baileys Prize
  • The Windham Campbell Prize
  • The Somerset Maugham Award
  • The Carnegie Medal
  • The Whitbread Award
  • The Eleanor Farjeon Award
  • The Costa Children's Book Prize
  • The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
  • The Michael L. Printz Award (USA)
  • Le Prix Sorcieres (France)
  • The Hans Christian Andersen Award.

 

Events

The Research Centre hosts a dynamic programme of events, lectures and public readings, featuring a wide range of distinguished writers and practitioners. We also host conferences and symposia at the forefront of literary and research developments in the UK and internationally.

Everything we do starts from our excellence as writers and the excellence of our student writers.

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