Our people
Find out more about the people that make up the Centre for New Writing.
All classes and workshops are led by our teaching staff, a team of award-winning writers who, between them, have written or edited roughly three dozen critically-acclaimed books of fiction, poetry or non-fiction. In addition, they have written screenplays, the libretto for a children's opera, an award-winning hypertext website and theatre adaptations.
Professor of New Writing
Lecturers
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Jason Allen Paisant
Jason Allen-Paisant is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing. He is the author of Théâtre dialectique postcolonial (Classiques Garnier), and of Engagements with Aimé Césaire (Oxford University Press, 2023), and of two volumes of poetry — Thinking with Trees and Self-Portrait as Othello, both published by Carcanet Press.
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Luke Brown
Luke Brown is the author of the novels My Biggest Lie (2014), and Theft (2020), and has had short fiction published in the White Review, Mal, London Magazine and The Fence.
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Horatio Clare
Horatio Clare is an author and journalist. He has published a dozen books for children and adults, ranging from memoir and travel to short stories and novellas.
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Vona Groarke
Vona Groarke is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing. She joined the Creative Writing team in 2007 after graduating from Trinity College, Dublin and previously worked in the United States and Norway.
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Jonathan Hourigan
Jonathan Hourigan is a screenwriter, script consultant and educator. He joined the Centre for New Writing in September 2022 as Programme Director for MA Screenwriting.
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Frances Leviston
Frances Leviston is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing. She has published two collections of poetry and has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the BBC National Short Story Award.
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Anders Lustgarten
One of ‘our most exciting political playwrights’, Anders Lustgarten is an award-winning playwright known for If You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep and his works for television and the RSC.
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John McAuliffe
John McAuliffe is Reader in Modern Literature and Creative Writing, and also the Co-Director of the Centre for New Writing. His main interests are in poetry, creative writing, contemporary literature and Irish Studies.
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Ian McGuire
Professor of American Literature and Creative Writing and former Co-Director of the Centre.
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Chloë Moss
Chloë Moss is an accomplished playwright and screenwriter. She has written extensively for theatre and television, while she is currently working on a teen drama for CBBC.
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Carmen Nasr
In 2017, Carmen Nasr was a winner of the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme, on which she was attached to the Finborough Theatre, where her play DUBAILAND previously premiered.
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Tim Price
Tim Price joined the Centre for New Writing in 2015 to teach on our new Screenwriting MA. He is a screenwriter and playwright, with television credits on some of the largest, longest running series including Eastenders, Holby City, Casualty and Doctors.
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Michael Schmidt
Professor Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL is a poet, literary historian, translator and editor.
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Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and joined the Centre for New Writing in 2017. Her most recent novel, Home Fire, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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Beth Underdown
‘Beth Underdown is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing. She is the author of two historical novels: The Witchfinder’s Sister (2017) and The Key in the Lock (2022).
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Ellah Wakatama
Ellah is a giant of the publishing world, having served on the judging panels of the Man Booker Prize and Dublin International Literary Award. She is Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books and is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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