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 Creative Writing
Co-Directors
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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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Kaye Mitchell
Dr Kaye Mitchell is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, and the Co-Director of the Centre. Her interests are in modern and contemporary literature, literary theory, gender and sexuality studies, and experimental writing by women.
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Lecturers
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Luke Brown
Luke Brown is the author of the novels My Biggest Lie (2014), and North and South (due in 2020).
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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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Emma Clarke
Emma Clarke joined the Centre for New Writing in 2015 to teach on our Screenwriting MA. Emma is a Senior Executive who has personally overseen the development and production of over 30 award-winning feature films and documentaries.
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Honor Gavin
Honor Gavin is a Lecturer in Creative Writing and joined the Centre for New Writing in 2017. Her experimental novel Midland / A Novel Out of Time was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2015.
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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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M.J. Hyland
M.J. Hyland is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing, an ex-lawyer and the author of three multi-award-winning novels. M.J. Hyland also runs regular Fiction Masterclasses in The Guardian Masterclass Programme.
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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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Dr Ian McGuire
Senior Lecturer Dr Ian McGuire was formerly a Co-Director of the Centre. He completed his first MA at the University of Sussex then received his PhD from the University of Virginia, where he specialised in nineteenth-century American Literature.
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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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Professor 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. Her debut novel The Witchfinder's Sister, is based on the witch-hunts orchestrated by Matthew Hopkins in 17th century Essex, and was released in 2017.
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