Writing

MA Writing: Imaginative Practice

Meet the Teaching Team

Tessa McWatt

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.

 

Tim Atkins

Collections of Tim Atkins’ poetry have been published in France, the USA, and UK, and his work has been translated into Japanese, Catalan, and Lithuanian. Recent books include Petrarch (Barque Press) and 1000 Sonnets (if p then q). His next volume, Petrarch, is being published by Vancouver’s Book Thug Press, and The Tim Atkins Annual (a collection of plays, collaborations, cartoons, and poems) will be published in 2012.Folklore (published by Salt) was a Daily Telegraph poetry selection for 2008, and of his collection Horace, poet Lisa Jarnot noted: “Tim Atkins does for translation what Gertrude Stein did for nouns….Pope and Dryden have nothing on this guy.” He is also editor of the online poetry journal onedit, and London correspondent for NY poetry journal Lungfull!!!! He is the Programme Leader for the MA Writing by distance learning.

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Jill Nelmes

Has been a screenwriter for many years and had numerous scripts in development. She began as a writer/director and her first film was shown at a number of international film festivals.

Since then she has focused on writing screenplays and studied screenwriting at the National Film School and UCLA whilst working in Hollywood as a script reader.

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