Gareth Gavin

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Dr Gareth Gavin’s work moves between the creative and the critical, often drawing on ongoing interests in queer and trans theory. He is the author of two novels – Midland (Penned in the Margins, 2014), which was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, and Never Was (Cipher Press, 2023), which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize – as well as a monograph on the encounter between early twentieth century literature and silent film. Both creatively and critically, his current work explores the relationship between individual transition and social change. Gareth joined the Centre for New Writing in 2017, the Centre's tenth anniversary year.

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Gareth's publications

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  Midland / A Novel Out of Time

  Set in the 1940s, 60s and 80s, Midland tells the stories of three women and was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2015.

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  Literature and film, dispositioned

  A critical and theoretical look at twentieth-century literature's encounter with film.

Never Was

Never Was is a novel about grief, addiction, transmasculinity and class, taking us from a limbo of lost dreams to a small salt-mining town.