About

Creative Writing theory and practice.

Teaching responsibilities

• Core Modules
• Focus on Narration
• Focus on Short Fiction
• Focus On Genre Fiction
• Writing and Representation
• PhD Supervisor

Professional interests

• Hawthornden Fellow
• Senior Fellow of the HEA
• Advisor/ex-Committee Member The Arvon Literature Foundation
• Member of NAWE (National Association of Writers in Education)
• On the Editorial Board for Short Fiction in Theory & Practice

Research interests

• History and development of narrative writing including early writing systems, narrative patterns, structural development and methods
• Interest in Irish writing & history with special attention to the role of women and writing from the Irish diaspora/Irish in Britain/Second generation identity
• Iconographies/Image/early cinema/graphic novels

Recent publications

Most recent academic & relevant publications

• Chapter; ‘Dragging the Corpse; Landscape & Memory’ Creative Writing & Education ed. G Harper, Channel View Publications, Bristol, Spring 2015
• Fiction:‘Combustible World’  ( Fictional  narrative  about the impact of the Troubles set in 1970’s Belfast , based on real events but questioning the role of  the narrator and of memory) The Warwick Review, vol VII, no.4 ed M.Hulse, University of Warwick, Oxford University Press, Jan 2014
• Article:‘Primo Levi as storyteller; the uses of fiction, creative non-fiction and the hard to classify in `Levi’s narrative of the Holocaust’ in Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, vol3, no.1, ed. A. Cox, Intellect Books, Bristol, Summer 2013
• ‘This Time and Now: Identity and Belonging in the Irish Diaspora: The Irish in Britain and Second Generational Silence.’  Chapter in Land & Identity. Theory, Memory & Practice. Rodophi, 2012. ISBN-13. 978-9042034600
• ‘The Lure of Gravity: Primo Levi In Liverpool ’ (creative non-fiction) in Spilling Ink: Collection of Fiction, Non-Fiction & Prose Poetry. Vol I,Unbound Press, Glasgow, 2011 ISBN 978-0-9568519-0-1
• ‘Amongst Barbarians: Ovid, the Classics and Creative Writing’  in International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing. Vol.7, No.3, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia, USA, Autumn 2010.  ISSN 1479-0726
• ‘Writing Marathons. Introducing  Creative Spaces.’ Article in Writing In Education, NAWE Journal, No 51, Summer  2010
• ‘Joan of Arc, Ringo Starr & Me’  Shortlisted for Creative Non-fiction prize, in Loose
• Leaves Anthology, Vol I,Unbound Press, Glasgow, November, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9558360-9-1.