Goldsmiths - University of London

Ms Bethan Roberts

BA English and American Literature (Warwick); MA 20th Century English Literature (Sussex); MA Creative Writing (Chichester).

Teaching

Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Chichester University (2003-2008) and The Open University (2006-2008).

I teach on the English with Creative Writing BA, and I also deal with admissions for this programme.

Research interests

My first novel, The Pools (Serpent’s Tail, 2007) won a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers’ Award. My second novel The Good Plain Cook (Serpent’s Tail, 2008) was recently serialized on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Book at Bedtime’ and was longlisted for the Spread the Word Prize. I was also awarded the Olive Cook Prize 2006 from the Society of Authors for my short story An Elephant in the Thames, and other stories have been anthologized in various publications and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. I’ve worked as a television documentary researcher, writer and assistant producer, a local television journalist, and as a book reviewer for various magazines. I am currently working on a third novel, set in 1950s Brighton.

Selected publications

• ‘Maggie’s Lipstick’ short story in The New Welsh Review (Spring 2009)
• ‘My Own Private Gondolier’ short story in Notes from the Underground (Spring 2009)
• The Good Plain Cook (Serpent’s Tail, 2008)
• ‘Soft Gold’ short story broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Verb’ (September 2008)
• ‘An Elephant in the Thames’ short story in The New Welsh Review (Spring 2008)
• The Pools (Serpent’s Tail, 2007)
• ‘Atlas’ short story in Talking to Strangers, ed. Paul Cunliffe (Decode Books, 2006)