All staff whose work is allied to the centre teach in the Department of English and offer supervision at doctoral level in either literature or creative writing; all have extensive teaching and supervisory experience. Our creative writers are leading practitioners, but they are also critics who play an important role in writing about contemporary writing in scholarly monographs and journals as well as in literary magazines and newspapers; members of the Department have also judged significant national and international literary prizes including the Man Booker Prize, the Costa prize and the T.S. Eliot prize.
Supervision in Creative Writing is currently offered by Professor Deryn Rees-Jones, Professor John Redmond, Dr Hannah Greenstreet, Dr David Hering, Dr Danny O’Connor and Dr Will Slocombe. The primary research interests of our full-time members of staff are in poetry, prose and drama; staff within the Department of English are also available to share expertise as supervisors, and to offer further consultation and academic support.
The Centre for New and International Writing collaborates with partners in Liverpool and beyond, including The Poetry Society, Arab Arts Festival and the University of Georgia. Recent activity has included the Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics Programme, led by Professor Sandeep Parmar, which has developed a more inclusive poetry culture; and the Poets in Vogue exhibition, hosted at the National Poetry Library, curated by Dr Sophie Oliver, which considered the relationship between fashion and literature.
Members of the Centre for New and International Writing are developing dynamic interdisciplinary research projects with departments and centres across the School of the Arts and School of Histories, Languages & Cultures, including the Literature and Science Hub, the Centre for Health, Arts, Society and the Environment, the Olaf Stapledon Centre for Speculative Futures, and the Centre for the Study of International Slavery.
External Collaborators
Collaborating external partners have included:
- Arab Arts Festival
- Arc Publications
- English PEN
- FACT
- Liverpool Biennial
- Liverpool Cathedral
- Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse
- Liverpool University Press
- Metal
- The Open Eye Gallery
- The Poetry Society
- The Poetry Foundation (U.S.)
- The Windows Project
- WoW