Brett Darling

Biography

I am a postgraduate Creative-Critical PhD researcher within the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing.

I am writing a PhD thesis/novel which focusses on themes of selfhood, personal narrativising, and ethics of the self, employing a mode of composition primarily based on rhythm.

My critical project examines the writers of Julio Cortazar, Virginia Woolf and Jon Fosse, their experimental modes of writing, experiences of time, and agency of self - alongside the philosophies of rhythm, being and ethics found in the work of Henri Meschonnic and Emmanuel Levinas. By doing so I attempt lay out an alternative approach to writing technique, one that differs from methodologies found on a traditional creative writing MFA. 

I have experience presenting workshops and teaching in interdisciplinary settings. As an Associate Tutor at UEA I have experience teaching and facilitating collaborative projects between creative writing and films students, as well as with the British Archive of Creative Writing. I co taught the first year undergraduate module ‘New Forms,’ and have received excellent feedback from students and peers.

I have hosted workshops and Q&As at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London – in 2018 I presented ‘Writing as Stuttering,’ with the writer Adania Shibli.   

My fiction and essays have been published in Specimen Press: Babel Review of Translations, Fruit, Content is Free, The Pluralist, and the Eunoia Review.