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McWatt, Tessa

Contact details

Position: Reader

Location: EB.1.20, Docklands

Telephone: 0208 223 7237

Email: t.a.mcwatt@uel.ac.uk

Contact address:

School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI)
University of East London
Docklands Campus
4-6 University Way
London E16 2RD

Brief biography

Tessa McWatt is an internationally published author of five novels and one novella for young adults. She is also the screenwriter of To the Wedding, a film in development based on John Berger’s novel. Her fiction has been nominated for a Toronto Book Award and a Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. She is the Programme Leader for the MA Writing: Imaginative Practice, and the coordinator of the student e-zine UNBOUND and the reading series WRITE NOW.

 

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Activities and responsibilities

  • Programme Leader, MA Writing: Imaginative Practice
  • UNBOUND
  • WRITE NOW

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Areas of Interest/Summary of Expertise

Writing, Film, Performance, Mixed Media Projects.

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Teaching: Programmes

  • MA Writing: Imaginative Practice (campus programme and Distance Learning programme)
  • BA Creative and Professional Writing
  • PhD Supervision in Creative Writing.

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Teaching: Modules

  • Creative Imagination
  • Life Writing
  • Exploring Fiction
  • Imagining the Novel
  • Experience: Encounters with the Real

BA and MA Dissertation Supervision.

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Current research and publications

  • Vital Signs (novel) - Random House Canada and William Heinemann (UK) (2011/12)
  • Step Closer (novel) - Toronto, HarperCollins Canada (2009)
  • This Body (audio book) - Leda Serena Films (2006)
  • This Body (novel)- HarperCollins Canada (2004)
  • There's No Place Like... (novella) - Macmillan Caribbean (2004)
  • "But the Rose Fell on Azor's Paw" (story) - WASAFIRI Literary Journal, London (2002)
  • Dragons Cry (novel) - Toronto, The Riverbank Press (2002 ) Short-listed Toronto Book Awards 2001 and Shortlisted Governor General's Awards of Canada (2001)
  •  Out of My Skin (novel) - Toronto, The Riverbank Press (1998)

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Research archive

 

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