Gareth Creer
Lecturer in Creative Writing, Head of Creative Writing
Research Interests
My primary research continues to focus on writing and recidivism in the form of the Free To Write project with a commissioned book being published next year. A crime novel, Suffer The Children has just been completed. Suffer The Children is a creative by-product of my research activity in working with inmates and ex-offenders and interrogates the popular conception of the nature of guilt and innocence and the possibility that these ideas form a continuum rather than absolutes. Big Sky has been optioned by Darius Films (Canada) for adaptation to cinema.
Current Projects
Publications (Selected)
Novels
Big Sky (London: Doubleday, 2001)
Short Stories
"Acts of Vengeance 1,2,3,4", in R. Page (ed) City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories (London: Penguin, 1999).
Book Chapters
''The Writer as Teacher”, in Steve Earnshaw (ed.), The Handbook of Creative and Media Writing (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007), 445-452.
''Structure – What is it Good For?", in Robert Graham (ed.), How To Write Fiction (Palgrave 2007), 221-232.
Awards
An award from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, through Free With Words, with further funding from Walton and Merseyside Probation Services, for the Free to Write Project, developing prisoners' and ex-offenders' life narratives on transitions from prison.
