Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
For half a century Creative Writing has proved one of our most productive and successful areas of research. Each piece of prose fiction and creative non-fiction, each poetry collection, script or dramatic production that emerges out of our school constitutes a research project informed by historical investigation, archival study or critical interrogation.
Our work in these diverse forms repeatedly extends the boundaries whereby those forms are understood and valued. Our writers also contribute important critical studies of the creative practices in which they lead the world.
Our research is taught and developed in the classroom, making us a place where ground-breaking experimental practice and practice-based research flourish. International, national and local creative writing research is enhanced by close collaboration with the National Centre for Writing, the British Centre for Literary Translation, the British Archive for Contemporary Writing and a range of international associations. Our students doing PhDs in creative and critical writing benefit from access to a sophisticated training schedule run by active practitioners who are leaders in their fields.
Network
Profiles
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Nathan Ashman
- School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Lecturer in Crime Writing
- Creative Writing Research Group - Member
- Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Tiffany Atkinson
- School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Professor in Creative Writing (Poetry)
- Creative Writing Research Group - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Trezza Azzopardi
- School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Lecturer
- Creative Writing Research Group - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Seed funding a climate change stories repository – the Critical Decade
Tebboth, M., Le Quéré, C. & McNeil, J.
1/11/22 → 31/10/23
Project: Internal Funding › NERC Discipline Hopping
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The Critical Decade for Climate Change
Le Quéré, C., McNeil, J. & Tebboth, M.
1/10/21 → 30/09/27
Project: Training
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Crafting Crime Fiction
Sutton, H., 2023, (Accepted/In press) Manchester University Press. 285 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open Access
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Against Creative Writing
Cowan, A., 13 Sep 2022, Routledge. 248 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Prizes
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Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice Grant
Robinson, Sophie (Recipient), 1 Sep 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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BBC Audio Drama Awards 2023
Waters, Steve (Recipient), 19 Mar 2023
Prize: National/international honour
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Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Non-Fiction Winner
McWatt, Tessa (Recipient), 4 May 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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QAA Advisory Group for the Creative Writing Subject Benchmark Statement (External organisation)
Iain Robinson (Member)
2023 → …Activity: Membership › Public/government panel or group
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Noirwich Crime Writing Festival 2022
Tom Benn (Speaker)
8 Sep 2022 → 9 Sep 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Festival/Exhibition/Performance
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Song of the Reeds: Rewilding Drama
Steve Waters (Speaker)
10 Jul 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Press/Media
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Reader's Digest - Tom Benn: Books that Changed My Life
15/03/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Tom Benn has been announced as the winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer Award for Oxblood.
15/03/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media