Information for Applicants:

Dr Graham Mort

Senior Lecturer

Convenor of Distance Learning MA

A former freelance writer, Graham Mort has worked as a poet, educational writer, editor, and tutor in a wider range of settings throughout the UK and is a distance learning specialist. He is director of postgraduate studies for the Creative Writing courses at Lancaster and project leader of the British Council/Lancaster University African writers mentoring scheme, Crossing Borders (see also the Crossing Borders section on this site).

In recent years this research project has taken him to Uganda, Malawi, Kenya, Ghana, S. Africa, Zimbabwe and Nigeria. He was a participant in, and the UK adviser for, the Beyond Borders pan-African literature festival in Uganda in October 2005, an event hosted by the British Council and involving writers from the UK and 17 African countries.

His research interests include contemporary fiction and poetry, literature development project design, emergent African writing and narratives of diaspora. He was a co-applicant on the ongoing Moving Manchester research project, which received an AHRC award of £365,000 to research the writings of migrant communities in Greater Manchester since 1960. He also co-organised the Department of English & Creative Writing Trans-Scriptions seminar series on writing, location and culture, linking academic research to readings by contemporary writers – these will take place throughout the 2005/6 academic year.

Graham's first collection of poems, A Country On Fire, won a major Eric Gregory award from the Society of Authors; his last collection, Circular Breathing, was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. A new collection of poems, A Night On The Lash, was published by Seren in 2004. He has also written short fiction and radio drama for BBC Radio 4 and performed his work at literature festivals and venues throughout the UK and overseas.

Published Works

Poetry: A Country On Fire, Littlewood Press, 1986, A Halifax Cider Jar, Yorkshire Art Circus, 1987, Into The Ashes, Littlewood Press, 1988, Sky Burial, Dangaroo Press, 1989, Snow From The North, Dangaroo Press, 1992, Circular Breathing, Dangaroo Press, 1997, A Night On The Lash, Seren, 2004, Visibility, Seren, 2007. See Graham's Writer's Gallery to read some of his poems.

Short Fiction: Panurge, The Guardian, Critical Quarterly, Krax, Global Tapestry, Fisheye,The North, Metropolitan, Northern Short Stories (Littlewood Press), Bright Streets Dark Comers, (Unwin Hyman), BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Lancashire, BBC Radio North-West, Northern Short Stories (Arc Publications), London Magazine, Fish Publishing Short Story Anthology.

Radio Drama: 'Flymowing' (poem) BBC Radio 3, 1997, 'The Red Field' (long poem) BBC Radio 4,1997, The Life Of The Bee (dramatic adaptation), BBC Radio 4, 1999, Cuba Libre at the Café España (afternoon play) BBC Radio 4, 2002.

Educational Coursebooks: Starting To Write, Open College of The Arts, 1990, The Experience Of Poetry, Open College of the Arts, 1991, Storylines, Open College of the Arts, 1992.

Reviews, articles and academic papers have appeared in a wide range of literary journals.

Recent and Current Postgraduate Supervision

Raymond Robinson, Electricity, novel, to be published by Picador; PhD awarded 2006

George Green, novel, Hound, published by Bantam Press, (with Prof. Simon Bainbridge); PhD awarded 2006

Martin Goodman, novel, Ectopia (with Dr. Lee Horsley); PhD awarded 2007

Rebecca Irvine, novel, Moving (with Dr Lee Horsley)

Rhiannon Hoosan, poetry, The Ox On Your Tongue

Muli Amaye, fiction

Geraldine Green, poetry

Tariq Mehmood Ali, novel, (with Prof. Lynne Pearce)

Rajiv Balasubramanyam, fiction & narrative theory, (with Prof. Lynne Pearce and Dr. Robert Crawshaw)

visit Graham's homepage

visit Contemporary Writers

visit the Crossing Borders Site

read Graham's work in his Writer's Gallery

download Graham's page at The Incwriters Society site

read Cuba Libre at the Café España on the Poetry Society website

Contact Details

Department of English and Creative Writing
Bowland College
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT

E-mail:
g.mort@lancaster.ac.uk

Tel:

594166

Unless otherwise shown, prefix numbers:
+44 (0) 1524

Fax: 594247

Room: Bowland A31b