Dr Gill James

Programme Leader English and Creative Practice Programmes

• Crescent House 200a
• T: 0161 295 6792
• E: g.james1@salford.ac.uk
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Semester 2 2012-2013 Friday 10.00 – 12.00

Gill James completed a Ph D in Creative and Critical Writing in 2007, shortly before she came to the University of Salford. Previously she taught creative writing at the University of Portsmouth and the University of Wales, Bangor.

She is a published author who writes fiction for young adults and children and also writes shorter fiction for adults. She frequently visits schools in order to give readings and workshops about her work and to introduce school children to the idea of studying creative writing in higher education.  

She is involved with several local community projects and is the founder of the more global Creative Café Project, and its e-zine CafeLit which provided publication opportunities  for new writers including our own students and graduates.

Module leader:

Intro to Children Literature (Year 2)

Writing Novels for Young People (Year 2)

Towards Publication (Year 2)

Also teaching on:

Creative Practice (Year 1)

Working the Text (Year 1)

Final Portfolio (Year 3)

Writing Workshop (MA)

Experimental Practice (MA)    

The Young Adult Novel

Creative Writing in Other Languages

Fact / Fiction Balance in Historical Fiction

Writing  the Future

Writing Process 

Ph D, MA, BA Hons, PGCE

Full member of Literature Wales (for services to Welsh literature) 

Society of Authors

Society of Children’s Book Writers Illustrators 

A Gallery for Nick (Manchester, Chapeltown) 2012 ISBN 978-0-9568680-6-0

On This Day (Manchester, Bridge House) 2012 ISBN 9781907335211

 The Best of CaféLit 2011 (Manchester, Chapeltown) 2012 ISBN 978-0-956868-039

 Build a Book (Manchester, Chapeltown) 2011 ISBN 978-0-9568680-0-8

 Hipp-O-Dee-Do-Dah,( ed) Gill James (Manchester, Bridge House)  2011 ISBN 9781907335112

 Kiters (Manchester, Tabby Cat Press) 2011, ISBN 978-0-9555725-8-6

 Babel (Manchester, The Red Telephone) 2011, ISBN 978-1-907335-10-5

Creative Language Learning, French Resource (London: Continuum) 2010  ISBN 978-0826409-92-8

Twelve Days (ed)  (Manchester: The Red Telephone) 2010 ISBN 978-1-907335-02-0 

The Prophecy (Manchester: The Red Telephone) 2009 ISBN 978-0-955791-08-6. 

Scum Bag (Cambridge: Butterfly)  2009 ISBN 978-190616-6-02 1.

‘Finding a suitable narrative voice when writing for children, in Teaching Creative Writing’ ed Elaine Walker (Ely, The Professional and Higher Partnership) ISBN 9781907076121

 ‘The Gargoyle’ in Hipp-O-Dee-Do-Dah, ed Gill James (Manchester, Bridge House) 2011 ISBN 9781907335112

‘The Man Pond’ in Gentle Footprints, ed Debz Hobbs-Wyatt. (Manchester: Bridge House) 2010 ISBN 9781907335044

‘Writing for Children Workshop’ in The Creative Writing Workbook, ed Graeme Harper (London: Continuum:) 2008 ISBN 978-0826494-29-0 pp 97-110

‘Thinking Outside the Box’ in Tonguefreed ed Elizabeth Maldonado (Portsmouth: Portsmouth University Press) 2007 pp 10-13

‘All Things Wise and Wonderful’  (Chisinau: British Embassy Press) 2007 No ISBN

‘Losing a Young Friend’ in Percieving British Culture Through the Might of Words, (Chisinau: British Embassy Press) 2007 No ISBN

“The Gift Child” (short story) in Lines in the Sand eds. Mary Hoffman and Rhiannon Lassiter (London: Frances Lincoln) 2004 ISBN 978-0711222823 

‘Fingers’ , October 2011 in Flash The International Short-Short Story Magazine Volume 4 Number 2   ISSN 1746-5200

‘Strange and Wondrous Words’ in Writing in Education 2011 ISSN 1361 8539      

‘Molecules of Hope’ in Writing in Education 2010 ISSN 1361 8539

 ‘The Undergraduate Creative Writing Workshop’, March 2009. Creative Writing Teaching: Theory and Practice. [online] Volume 1 Number 1 48-62 ISSN 2040-3356 Available at: http://www.euc.ac.cy/easyconsole.cfm/id/1071

 ‘Writing Creatively in Another Language’ on Teaching English as a Foreign Language  at http://www.tefl.net/esl-articles/creative-writing.htm (Site which deals with English as a Foreign Language teaching – peer reviewed by teachers) 2006 

‘Creative Writing in Other Languages’ in New Writing, The International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing, Vol 2 Number 1 ISSN 1479- 0276 pp44-57  

“A Day in the Life” in NAWE case-studies, 2004 ISSN 1361 8539