Event overview
Creativity and creative writing: the great debate
Creative writing courses are killing off western literature, the Nobel Prize judge Horace Engdahl recently claimed. Will Self and Hanif Kureishi have also questioned their value. Are they right? Can innovation be taught? Is university the right environment to foster creativity? What purpose do practice-based postgraduate degrees serve? And how should creative writing students be defined – as artists or academics? Come and join the discussion with our panel, Derval Tubridy, James Miller, Ros Barber and Charlie Atkinson.
Chair: Jennifer Nadel (MPhil/PjD, Goldsmiths)
Dr Derval Tubridy is Dean of the Graduate School at Goldsmiths and senior lecturer in English Literature and Visual Culture. Her research focuses on the intersection between language, materiality, and process in twentieth-century and contemporary literature, philosophy and visual culture with particular emphasis on the Samuel Beckett and Thomas Kinsella. She is currently writing a monograph on Samuel Beckett’s influence on contemporary aesthetics called Art after Beckett.
Dr James Miller is senior lecturer in creative writing at Kingston University. His first novel, the highly acclaimed Lost Boys, a rewriting of Peter Pan for the age of terror was published with Little Brown while he was writing his PhD. His second novel, the dystopian climate change thriller Sunshine State, was published by Little, Brown in 2010. He has published a wide range of short fiction and has non-fiction pieces on creative writing forthcoming in anthologies with Bloomsbury and Salt books as well as Litro Magazine. He has just finished his third novel.
Dr Ros Barber is author of the prize-winning verse novel The Marlowe Papers (2012) and has written three collections of poetry; the most recent, Material (2008), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, and Director of Research at the Shakespearean Authorship Trust.
Charlie Atkinson is a Yorkshire-born poet and academic who lives in London. She is a doctoral candidate in creative writing at Goldsmiths, where her focus is on developing a theory of creative criticism. Her poetry can be found in Agenda, Aesthetica, and in several anthologies. http://www.charliethegirl.com
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 26 Nov 2014 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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