Chris Killen
Peter Sansom
Research Fellows
The Centre for New Writing offers two fellowships per academic year. These fellowships provide residencies for professional writers who have already successfully published at least one book (of poetry or fiction), and would welcome the support of the University's intellectual community while working on their next.
Fellows take a full and active part in the Centre's seminars, lead PhD workshops, make themselves available to the Centre's students and, at the end of their term, give a public reading and a week-long workshop at the Centre's July Summer School.
The Centre for New Writing's Research Fellows for 2008/9 are:
- Peter Sansom, whose collections include The Last Place on Earth, January and Everything You've Heard is True. His New and Selected Poems will be published by Carcanet in 2009.
Peter is editor of The North and the founder of The Poetry Business, and has been company poet with both Marks and Spence and the Prudential.
- Chris Killen, a hotly-tipped novelist whose first book, The Bird Room, will be published by Canongate in Spring 2009 as part of a two-book deal.
He won the 2007 Manchester Literature Festival's Blog Award for his innovative fiction site Day of Moustaches, which includes a 100-chapter 'supermarket nightmare' novel written on a chapter-a-day basis, and is a fiction editor at 3:AM magazine.