Goldsmiths - University of London

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Richard Skinner

Position held:
Associate Tutor in Creative Writing

Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7171

Email:
r.skinner (@gold.ac.uk)

Website:
http://richardskinner.weebly.com/


Academic qualifications

BA (Hons) English Literature & Film Studies, Sussex University, 1992; MA Creative Writing, UEA, 1996.

Teaching

Convenor for the BA course, ‘Creating the Text’
Tutor on the MA in Creative & Life Writing

Grants & awards

Winner of an Arts Council Writers’ Award in 2004. 

Professional activities

Faber Academy, London: Course Director of the six-month creative writing programme.
Manuscript assessor and editorial adviser for The Literary Consultancy, an affiliate of the Arts Council of England (since 1999).

Conferences

Numerous workshops, panel discussions and courses for the Free Word Centre in London, the Writers’ Centre Norwich and the Skyros Centre in Greece.

Television and video output


Recorded works

Richard Skinner's poetry has been adapted to music by Pablo's Eye. The CD (Swim, 1998) is titled All She Wants Grows Blue. Review

Selected publications

Richard Skinner's first novel, The Red Dancer, was published in 2001 by Faber and has been translated into seven languages. His second novel, The Velvet Gentleman, was published by Autrement in France in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Prix Livres & Musiques. He has written a book of non-fiction – a writer’s handbook entitled Fiction Writing: The Essential Guide to Writing a Novel, published in 2009. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in First Pressings, Staple and Loops, and his poetry has been adapted for music.