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Selected recent publications in Creative Writing

Creative Writing at Lancaster is taught by a distinguished group of prize-winning writers who publish in a wide range of genres. Go to our Staff Pages for further information on individual members of staff, their current research interests and a fuller list of projects and publications.

The Short Story

Zoe Lambert's short story collection, The War Tour was published by Comma Press in 2012 and shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize.

Brian McCabe's Selected Stories was published by Argyll in 2004. He won the Canongate Prize in 2000.

Graham Mort was winner of the Bridport International Short Story Prize in 2007 and brought out a collection of short stories: Touch, with Seren in 2010. Touch won the Edge Hill Prize for short fiction in 2011.

The Novel

Jenn Ashworth's first novel, A Kind of Intimacy was published in 2009 and won a Betty Trask Award. Her second, Cold Light was published in 2011 and she was listed as the BBC Culture Show's 12 Best New Writers. In 2012 her third novel, The Friday Gospels was published with Sceptre.

George Green first novel: Hound was published by Transworld in 2003, and the follow-up, Hawk, in 2005.

Poetry

Sarah Corbett's The Red Wardrobe won an Eric Gregory Award and was shortlisted for the T.S Eliot and Forward prizes.

Jane Draycott's collection The Night Tree was published by Carcanet in 2004. She has been nominated 3 times for the Forward Prize.  Over, Jane Draycott's third volume, was published by Oxford Poets in 2009.

Helen Farish's debut collection of poems, Intimates, was published by Cape in 2005 and won the 2005 Forward best first collection prize.

Paul Farley's collection, The Dark Film, was published in 2012 and shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize.

Tom Pow's last single collection - Dear Alice - Narratives of Madness (Salt, 2008) - won the poetry category of the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Scottish Book of the Year Award. In the Becoming, New and Selected Poems (Polygon) was published in the summer 2009.

For Broadcast and Performance

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Creative Non Fiction

Paul Farley's, Edgelands, (co-authored with Michael Symmons Roberts) was published by Jonathan Cape in 2011; it received the Royal Society of Literature's Jerwood Award, the Foyles Best Book of Ideas 2012 and was serialised as a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

Sara Maitland published The Book of Silence with Granta in 2008.

Connor O'Callaghan's Red Mist, a comic memoir appeared from Bloomsbury in 2004. A film adaptation, part documentary and part animation, was screened on Setanta TV.

Creative Writing Pedagogy

George Green's book Writing a Novel and Getting Published came out in 2007.

Sara Maitland published Mentoring for Creative Writing: A national report on good practice and recommendations for future development, with Martin Goodman in 2007 and The Writer’s Way, a creative writing course book in 2005.

Michelene Wandor published The Author is not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else: Creative Writing Reconceived in 2008.

Writers who began their careers as students on the Lancaster Writing Programme have published over fifty books in recent years: go to Student Publications to find out more.