Jenny Newman
Research Interests
I write mainly on contemporary British fiction. I am the editor of The Faber Book of Seductions (1988), and co-editor of Women Talk Sex: Autobiographical Writing on Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Identity (Scarlet Press, 1992), The Writer's Workbook (Arnold, 2004), and Contemporary British and Irish Fiction (Arnold, 2004). I have written two novels, Going In (Penguin, 1994) and Life Class (Arrow, 2000). My short fiction has recently appeared in This Is, Pool, and The London Magazine, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. I write frequently on creative writing pedagogy, and have recently written The Mslexia MA, a series of nine features on how to write a novel. I also write for The British Council website.
Current Projects
Publications (Selected)
Books
Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: an Introduction Through Interviews (co-edited, with Sharon Monteith & Pat Wheeler (London: Arnold, 2004).
The Writer's Workbook (2nd edition, co-edited with Edmund Cusick & Aileen La Tourette; London: Arnold, 2004).
Novels
Life Class (Arrow, 2000)
Short Stories
'Pastor', The London Magazine (October/November 2003), 54-60 .
"The Vanishing Point", in Maureen Duffy (ed.), Pool 1: New Writing Out of Liverpool John Moores University (West Kirby: Headland, 2002).
"Losers", This Is 1.1 (Winter 1998).
Journal Articles
"Souls and Arseholes: the Double Vision of The Century's Daughter", Critical Survey 13.1 (2001), 18-36.
Book Chapters
'The Evaluation of Creative Writing at MA Level (UK)', in Steve Earnshaw (ed.), The Handbook of Creative and Media Writing (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007), 24-36.
"People Under Pressure" and "Writing Home", in J. Steel (ed.), Wordsmithery: The Writer's Craft and Practice (Palgrave, 2007).
"Eye level", in Paul Magrs & Julia Bell, The Creative Writing Coursebook (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2001).
