Guest Writers

Creative Writing (BA and MA) Guest Writers

• Professor Jo Shapcott FRSL (poet – Faber, Cholmondely Award)
• Bernard O’Donoghue (poet  - Chatto & Windus, winner of a Whitbread Award)
• Helen Dunmore FRSL (poet - novelist and children’s writer, formerly chair of The Society of Authors – Penguin/Viking, Bloodaxe, Scholastic, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction)
• Peter Scupham FRSL (poet- OUP and Carcanet, Cholmondely Award)
• Carol Ann Duffy FRSL, OBE, CBE (poet – Faber, playwright, Cholmondely Award)
• Richard Holmes FRSL, OBE (biographer – Harper Collins, Whitbread Book of the Year, Heineman Award)
• Professor Philip Gross (poet, novelist and librettist – Faber, Bloodaxe, OUP, Scholastic, Whitbread Poetry Award)
• Margaret Drabble (novelist, biographer – Weidenfield & Nicolson, Viking)
• Howard Brenton (playwright – The Olivier Theatre, The Cottesloe, The National Theatre)
• Blake Morrison (poet, non-fiction writer – Vintage, Granta)
• John Burnside (poet, novelist and non-fiction writer, The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Prize; twice shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.)
• Lindsay Clarke (novelist - Picador, Whitbread Award)
• Simon Brett (Detective thriller writer and scriptwriter – tv and radio, formerly Chair of the Society of Authors)
• Professor David Craig (novelist, poet and travel writer - Canongate)
• Robert Shearman (TV scriptwriter for Dr Who; playwright; short story writer; the 2008 World Fantasy Award)
• Mark Greig (screenwriter for BBC TV series Life on Mars and others, including the ITV series Taggart).
•  Jennifer Tucker (playwright – Old Vic New Voices Theatre 503 Award)
• Simon Armitage (poet – Faber, novelist, film-maker)
• Dr. George Szirtes FRSL (poet, playwright and librettist  - Secker, Bloodaxe)
• Bernardine Evaristo (novelist, Hamish Hamilton)
• Susanna Jones (novelist – Picador, John Llewellyn Rhys Award)
• Mavis Cheek (novelist – Faber)
• Gillian Plowman (playwright – Verity Bargate Award)
• Matthew Sweeney (poet – Jonathan Cape, Cholmondely Award)
• Adam Marek (short story writer, nominated for the International Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction)
• Jemma Kennedy (novelist – Viking)
• Nick Warburton (playwright, scriptwriter – tv and radio- and children’s writer – winner of the Radio Times Drama Award, the Richard Imison Award and The Peter Tinniswood Award)
• Timberlake Wertenbaker (playwright – The Royal Court)
• Janice Galloway (novelist and short story writer – Secker, Granta)

Literary Agents & Editors

• David Godwin, Agent, David Godwin Associates, London, New York, Delhi; represents, for example, Jim Crace, David Davidar, Craig Raine, Richard Holmes, Vikram Seth, Claire Tomalin and Booker Prize winners Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Aravind Adiga.
• Judith Murray, Agent,  Greene & Heaton
• Hannah Westland, Agent, Rogers, Coleridge and White
• Juliette Mitchell, Associate Editor, Hamish Hamilton (Penguin UK)
• Will Francis, Agent, Greene & Heaton
• James Gill, Agent, PFD
• Poppy Hampson, Editor, Chatto Books
• William Shaw, leading Journalist, Editor, UnMadeUp Books
• John Davies, Editor, Pighog Press
• Elaine Palmer, Editor, Pulp.Net

Forthcoming Guests

• Jo Shapcott (as above)
• Ed Hogan – new novel Blackmoor (Scribner) shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Award
• Gabriela Blandy, poet and voice coach
• Professor Vicki Feaver (latest book The Book of Blood shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, and the Forward Prize for Poetry, Jonathan Cape)
• Nicholas Royle (editor and short story writer shortlisted for The Edge Hill Award for Short Fiction)
• Ra Page, Editor, Comma Press