Staff
The combination of academics, practitioners and publishing professionals makes Kingston Writing School a unique environment in which to further your studies and your career.
Academics
Journalism
- Maria Ahmed
- Mary Braid
- Beth Brewster
- Professor Brian Cathcart
- Professor Richard Cohen
- Michelle Hather
- Clare Lovell
- James Morrison
- Lucy Smy
- Daniel Townend
- Dr Maurice Walsh
- Adam Westbrook
Media and Cultural Studies
- Dr Steve Bastow
- Dr Fan Carter
- Fleeta Chew Siegel
- Anita Howarth
- Dr Eleni Ikoniadou
- Dr Noha Mellor
- Dr Maria Mencia
- Dr Lande Pratt
- Dr Hager Weslati
- Professor Scott Wilson
- Dr Aybige Yilmaz
Publishing
Translation Studies
- Noelle Brick
- Professor Vesna Goldsworthy
- Dr Eva Hoffman
- Nina Melero
- Dr Noha Mellor
- Dr Paul Perry
- Dr Elif Shafak
- Dr Maurice Walsh
Creative Writing
- Paul Bailey
- Adam Baron
- Dr Scott Bradfield
- Nicola Browne
- Siobhan Campbell
- Professor Norma Clarke
- Professor Richard Cohen
- Rachel Cusk
- Professor Vesna Goldsworthy
- Dr Eva Hoffman
- Dr Meg Jensen
- Hanif Kureishi
- Dr Karen Lipsedge
- Duncan MacMillan
- Alexander Masters
- Nina Melero
- Dr James Miller
- Dr Paul Perry
- Winsome Pinnock
- Dr David Rogers
- Dr Fiona Sampson
- Dr Elif Shafak
- Todd Swift
- Dr Andrew Teverson
- Dr Wendy Vaizey
English Language and Communication
- Paul Booth
- Dr Korina Giaxoglou
- Sarah Horrod
- Karen Hurley
- Dr Marina Lambrou
- Kathryn Richardson
- Dr Thiresia Spilioti
- Dr Tim Wharton
English Literature
- Dr Eadaoin Agnew
- Dr Melanie Bayley
- Dr Matthew Birchwood
- Professor Fred Botting
- Dr Brycchan Carey
- Professor Norma Clarke
- Dr Martin Dines
- Dr John Fuegi
- Professor Vesna Goldsworthy
- Professor Avril Horner
- Dr Meg Jensen
- Dr Jane Jordan
- Dr Karen Lipsedge
- Dr Erica Longfellow
- Professor Simon Morgan Wortham
- Dr David Parker
- Professor Patricia Phillippy
- Dr David Rogers
- Dr Anne Rowe
- Dr Andrew Teverson
- Dr Sara Upstone
Practitioners
Visiting Professors
- Samira Ahmed (Journalism and Media)
- Laura Borras (Digital Media and E-Poetry Theory)
- Richard Cohen (Creative Writing and Journalism)
- John Fuegi (Film and English Literature)
- Bonnie Greer (Creative Writing and Journalism)
Writers in Residence
- Clare Allan
- Jonathan Barnes
- Mark Barrowcliffe
- Liz Berry
- Laura Bridgeman
- Kayo Chingonyi
- Howard Cunnell
- Matthew Cunningham
- Martin Dawes
- Georgia Fitch
- Liz Jensen
- Barrie Keeffe
- David Lehman
- Gwyneth Lewis
- Kathryn Maris
- Courttia Newland
- Mark Norfolk
- Kate O'Riordan
- Andrea Stuart
Journalists in Residence
- Andy Beckett
- Charlotte Bradshaw
- Kathryn Corrick
- Teresa Machan
What our staff say
"I've felt a compulsion to write stories for as long as I can remember. At primary school I would cram ink-blotched exercise books with picaresque chronicles of my weekend adventures. I then progressed through various well-worn phases - absurdist childhood fantasy and (very) adolescent fiction - before finally taming my increasingly florid prose by plumping for a career in journalism. I've never looked back.
"Journalism gave me what I'd long lacked as an aspiring (and frustrated) novelist: discipline. Immovable deadlines, and rules outlawing purple prose, reined me in and taught me to crystallise issues (however complex) precisely and economically. Professionally, I still prefer to write longer, more 'colourful', pieces than tight news stories. But, after years as a jobbing reporter, I can be fairly confident the thoughts I am trying to express come out clearly - and as I intended them."
James Morrison
Senior Lecturer in Journalism
