Re MCNA Bursary
We were informed about the MCNA bursary by the Arts Council, England, who also fund our site YouWriteOn.com.
The bursary has a very prestigious judging board (see list below) including professional author Martyn Bedford, who is also a literary professional for YouWriteOn.com providing free professional critiques for new writers, and teaches creative writing at Manchester University and has judged for well established awards like the Betty Trask Awards. Hope the information on the panel below helps for those considering it.
Ted
www.youwriteon.com
Our Judges:
Diane Banks, Diane Banks Associates Literary Agency
After 8 years in publishing, at Penguin and then Hodder & Stoughton, when she worked on authors as diverse as Stephen King, John le Carré, Jeffery Deaver, Meg Hutchinson, Jodi Picoult, Melvyn Bragg, David Mitchell and Andreï Makine, Diane Banks set up her literary agency, Diane Banks Associates, in 2005. She represents both fiction and non-fiction and is always on the look-out for new talent.
Dr. Jason Whittaker, Falmouth University
Jason Whittaker is a senior lecturer in English with Media Studies and Journalism at University College Falmouth, and has over a decade experience as a journalist and editor. He is the author of several books on William Blake and new media and technologies, his most recent books being Radical Blake (with Shirley Dent, Palgrave, 2002), The Cyberspace Handbook (2004) and Blake, Modernity and Popular Culture (with Steve Clarke, Palgrave 2006). He is currently working on a title on magazine publishing.
Dr. Anthony Caleshu, University of Plymouth
Anthony Caleshu is a Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth. Anthony's research interests include American literature, contemporary poetry and creative writing. His poetry and stories have been published widely on both sides of the Atlantic in magazines such as The Dublin Review, Poetry Review, and American Literary Review. Work from his collection of poems, THE SIEGE OF THE BODY AND A BRIEF RESPITE (Salt, 2004) was anthologised in The Forward Book of Poetry (2005) and New Irish Poets. He's been several times nominated for a Pushcart Prize (USA) and was short-listed for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for Best New Poet in 2004. Anthony is currently teaching at Plymouth University and working on a number of creative projects including: a novel, a collection of stories, a new play and a monograph on the poet James Tate. Anthony is also Chair of the Peninsula Arts Literature Series in Plymouth.
Val Taylor, University of East Anglia
Val Taylor is Director of Scriptwriting at UEA, Research Supervisor for UEA's PhD in Critical and Creative Writing. Theatre Dramaturg, Script & Screenplay Consultant, with particular specialism in adaptation. Val also works as a Theatre Director and Writer.
An associate of Bird's Eye View, Managing Partner of Playwrights East and a consultant on screenwriter-training to Skillset, and previously Screen East.
Publications and Production:
Author: Stage Writing: A Practical Guide (Crowood Press 2002); 2 chapters in Theatre Theories (Anthony Frost, ed., Pen & inc Press, 2000); 1 chapter in Boxed Sets: Television Representations of Theatre (Jeremy Ridgman, ed., Arts Council of England / John Libbey Media/University of Luton Press, 1998).
Dramaturg & Scriptwriter: Guardians of the Deep (Theatre for Africa at the Earth Summit, Johannesburg, RSA, 2002).
Val is currently working with Michael Begley on a commission for the Bush Theatre and will shortly begin work with U.S writer, Jordan Goldman on his new screenplay.
George Green, Lancaster University
George Green is a Lecturer in Creative Writing, Part II Director of Creative Writing and Convenor of the Campus MA at Lancaster University. Having written short stories, one of them the prize-winning 'Baby', George successfully moved into the realm of longer fiction, completing and recently publishing two novels: Hound and Hawk. His research interests are Irish fiction, 'the Western' and Biography.
Sarah Duncan, Bristol University
Sarah Duncan is a Novelist, Script-Writer and Creative Writing Tutor. Her first novel, Adultery for Beginners, was short listed for the Joan Hessayon New Writers Prize and became an international best seller. Her second, Nice Girls Do, has recently been published by Headline, and she is currently writing her third for them. Her short stories have been widely published and broadcast on Radio 4. She adapted one of them into a film script. The film, A Naked Eye, has gone on to win five international film festival best drama or best script awards, including Gold Medal at Houston, the world’s largest. She has an MA in Creative Writing and is an experienced creative writing tutor. She currently teaches on the Creative Writing Diploma at Bristol University and runs their Fiction Writing Workshop.
Dr. Pádraigín Riggs, University College Cork, Ireland
Dr Pádraigín Riggs is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern Irish at University College, Cork. Author of
Donncha Ó Céileachair: Anailís Stíliúil (1978) and
Pádraic Ó Conaire: Deoraí (1994), both books dealing with the work of short story writers in Irish. Other publications include articles on various aspects of contemporary fiction in Irish. As well as teaching courses on the novel and short story in Irish, at undergraduate and postgraduate level, Pádraigín Riggs is a regular adjudicator for the annual Oireachtas Literary Competition - the major Irish literary competition.
Ailsa Cox, Edge Hill University
Ailsa is a prizewinning short story writer and critic. Her stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies including The Virago Book of Love and Loss, Manchester Stories 3 and London Magazine. She is also the author of, Writing Short Stories (Routledge), and, Alice Munro (Northcote House Writers and Their Work Series). Ailsa currently teaches writing at Edge Hill University.
Prof. Pat Waugh, Durham University
Pat is Head of the English Department at Durham University, where she has been for the last seventeen years. Her publications include:
Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (Methuen, London and New York, 1984; 2nd edition,1988; 3rd edition, Routledge, 2003; Japanese edition 1988)pp. 176;
Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern (Edward Arnold, 1989); 1,
Postmodernism: A Reader (Edward Arnold, London and New York), pp. 276;
Practising Postmodernism/Reading Modernism (Routledge, 1992)
Modern Literary Theory: (Edward Arnold, London and New York, pp. 430) ;
The Harvest of the Sixties: English literature and its Backgrounds 1960-95 (Oxford University Press, 1995);
Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual History and Twentieth Century Literature (Edward Arnold, 1997, pp. 370) ; with David Fuller,
The Arts and Sciences of Criticism (Oxford UP, 1999);
Literary Criticism and Theory: an Oxford Guide (Oxford UP, 2006, pp.600) and she is currently completing a book on literature, science and the good society and writing the Blackwell History of British and Irish Literature 1945-present).
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Dr. Clare Morgan, Oxford University
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As well as being Course Director for the Creative Writing course at Oxford University, Clare Morgan is a prize winning novelist, short story writer and poet. Her publications include A Touch of the Other (Gollancz/Hutchinson) and a collection of stories, An Affair of the Heart (Seren). Her work has appeared in the British Council New Writing series; Class Work (ed. Malcolm Bradbury); The New Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories; and on Radio 4. She is a graduate of East Anglia’s MA in Creative Writing, and former Chair of the Literature Bursaries panel of the Arts Council of Wales. She has lectured in English at Oxford University since 1995, and is a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement. She is Director of the Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing, on which she tutors in Fiction and Critical Analysis.[/SIZE]
. When I got the leaflet I was going to post the info. on the novel writing forum. And then I looked at the website. I thought it was better off here.
