The Great Writing international Creative Writing conference, Imperial College, London: observations from 2012–2014

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Acknowledgements

Sincere thanks to Vaughan Hughes, who has not only worked these past few years on the team that helps make the annual Great Writing conference run smoothly, but has also assisted in recording the keynote events, and kindly typed up the raw transcript from the plenary panel, above.

Notes on contributors

Kate Coles is a professor at the University of Utah and the author of five collections of poems. Katharine Coles has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her work has been translated into German and Spanish and is currently being translated into Italian.

Graeme Harper is the Editor of New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. An award-winning fiction writer, his latest novel is The Invention of Dying (Parlor, 2015). He is currently editing a critical examination of creative writing teaching in the USA, entitled Changing Creative Writing in America (MLM, 2016). He is a former Commonwealth Scholar in Creative Writing, and currently the Dean of the Honors College at Oakland University, Michigan, USA.

Jeri Kroll was the inaugural Dean of Graduate Research at Flinders University and is currently Professor of English and Creative Writing. A former President of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, she has published twenty-five titles for adults and young people. Criticism includes Research Methods in Creative Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Recent books are Workshopping the Heart: New and Selected Poems (Wakefield Press, 2013) and a verse novel, Vanishing Point (Puncher and Wattman, 2015), which was shortlisted for the 2015 Queensland Literary Awards. A MainStage production of Vanishing Point occurred at George Washington University in October 2014. The play was subsequently a winner in the 47th Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and produced in January 2015 in Ohio.

Nigel McLoughlin is Professor of Creativity and Poetics at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. He is a published poet with five collections in print, the latest of which is Chora: New & Selected Poems (Templar Poetry, 2009). Since 2008 he has been Editor of Iota poetry journal and he has served as a guest editor for TEXT: The Journal of Writing and Writing Courses and for the journal American, British and Canadian Studies. In 2011 he was awarded a UK National Teaching Fellowship. A recording of his poetry can be found on the Poetry Archive at http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/nigel-mcloughlin.