Who Do You Love Gilbert, Francis. 2017. Who Do You Love. London: Blue Door Press. ISBN 978-1539626183
How to Get A Great English Degree Gilbert, Francis. 2017. How to Get A Great English Degree. London: FGI Publishing. ISBN 978-1492282181
Edited Book
Freeing Creative Voice Sweeney, Carrie; Januchowski-Hartley, Stephanie and Gilbert, Francis, eds. 2024. Freeing Creative Voice. London: Centre for Language, Culture and Learning. Goldsmiths, University of London. ISBN 9781913694098
Diversity and Inspiration Friedland, Deborah; Troiano, Gabriel and Gilbert, Francis, eds. 2022. Diversity and Inspiration. London: Gold Publishing (Centre for Languages, Culture and Learning). ISBN 9781913694074
Creative Power: Investigating Creative Writing & Its Value Gilbert, Francis, ed. 2022. Creative Power: Investigating Creative Writing & Its Value. London: Gold Publishing (Centre for Languages, Culture and Learning). ISBN 9781913694081
Inspire: Exciting Ways to Teach Creative Writing Brankin, Emma; Gilbert, Francis and Sharples, Carinya, eds. 2020. Inspire: Exciting Ways to Teach Creative Writing. London: Gold Publishing. ISBN 9781913694043
Edited Journal
Writing in Practice Gilbert, Francis, ed. 2020. Writing in Practice, Writing in Practice, 6. 2058-5535
Book Section
Four ways personal language autobiographies can transform the English teaching of Generation Alpha Gilbert, Francis. 2025. Four ways personal language autobiographies can transform the English teaching of Generation Alpha. In: Lorna Smith, ed. Secondary English for Generation Alpha: Humane Pedagogy for Local, National and International Contexts. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 119-130. ISBN 9781032765990
Using creative writing to fuel creativity Gilbert, Francis. 2025. Using creative writing to fuel creativity. In: Jen Katz-Buonincontro and Todd Kettler, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Creativity and Education. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 495-511. ISBN 9780197698181
A Century of Teaching Creative Writing in Schools Macleroy, Vicky and Gilbert, Francis. 2021. A Century of Teaching Creative Writing in Schools. In: Andrew Green, ed. The New Newbolt Report: One Hundred Years of Teaching English in England. Oxford: Routledge. ISBN 9781003141891
The Haunted House: Teaching Creative Writing Through Collaborative Learning to 9-13 year olds Gilbert, Francis. 2020. The Haunted House: Teaching Creative Writing Through Collaborative Learning to 9-13 year olds. In: Emma Branking; Francis Gilbert and Carinya Sharples, eds. Inspire: Exciting Ways of Teaching Creative Writing. Centre for Language, Culture and Learning, pp. 107-125. ISBN 9781913694043
Article
Guerrilla CPD Gilbert, Francis and Bogard, Debbie. 2025. Guerrilla CPD. BERA Research Intelligence(163), p. 26. ISSN 0307-9023
Teaching Mindfulness in an Unmindful System Gilbert, Francis. 2024. Teaching Mindfulness in an Unmindful System. British Journal of Educational Studies, 72(3), pp. 359-378. ISSN 0007-1005
Selective amnesia and the political act of remembering English teaching Pitfield, Maggie; Gilbert, Francis; Asamoah Boateng, Claudia and Stanger, Camilla. 2023. Selective amnesia and the political act of remembering English teaching. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 31(5), pp. 1059-1077. ISSN 1468-1366
Diagrarting: Theorising and practising new ways of writing Gilbert, Francis. 2022. Diagrarting: Theorising and practising new ways of writing. New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 19(2), pp. 153-182. ISSN 1479-0726
Teaching 1984 in the surveillance culture of schools Gilbert, Francis and Pitfield, Maggie. 2019. Teaching 1984 in the surveillance culture of schools. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 18(1), pp. 85-99. ISSN 1175-8708
Mindfulness and Creative Writing Gilbert, Francis. 2019. Mindfulness and Creative Writing. Writing in Education(77), ISSN 1361-8539
Creative Writing and English: collaboration, connection, crossovers Gilbert, Francis. 2024. 'Creative Writing and English: collaboration, connection, crossovers'. In: Creative Writing and English: collaboration, connection, crossovers. The English Association, United Kingdom 7 March 2024.
How can we harness the power of creativity? Gilbert, Francis. 2022. 'How can we harness the power of creativity?'. In: Creative Power Conference. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 9 December 2022.
Decolonising Creative Writing Conference presentation Gilbert, Francis; Leena, Dhingra and Steve, Roberts. 2020. 'Decolonising Creative Writing Conference presentation'. In: Decolonising Creative Writing. United Kingdom 11 December 2020.
Affective Digital Presence in Creative Practice Matthews, Miranda and Francis, Gilbert. 2020. 'Affective Digital Presence in Creative Practice'. In: Centre for Arts and Learning, Affective Digital Presence in Creative Practice. Online 3 November 2020.
Improving your results without teaching to the test Gilbert, Francis. 2019. 'Improving your results without teaching to the test'. In: Improving Results without teaching to the test: four key lessons. Cambridge, United Kingdom 27 March 2019.
Reciprocity and reading Gilbert, Francis. 2017. 'Reciprocity and reading'. In: Reciprocity and reading. Goldsmiths, United Kingdom 14th September 2017.