 Dr Abi Curtis
Senior Lecturer English Literature and Creative Writing
Head of Programme MA Contemporary Literature and MA Creative
Writing
Abi was one of the first to gain a PhD in
Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Sussex, and
went on to teach there until 2010 when she joined YSJU. In 2004 she
received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors for
poets under 30, and her first collection, Unexpected
Weather, was the winner of Salt Publishing’s inaugural Crashaw
Prize and was shortlisted for the London Festival Fringe Poetry
Award 2010. Her research interests are Creative Writing, Poetry,
Fiction, and Psychoanalysis. Abi’s second poetry collection,
The Glass Delusion, is published by Salt in 2012.
Links:
Author page
Link to webpage: Abi
Curtis
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JT Welsch
Lecturer
JT Welsch has published two chapbooks of poetry,
Orchids and Waterloo. His collection,
Rejections of Marriage, has been shortlisted for the 2011
Crashaw Prize. His plays and screenplays have been produced at
Manchester’s Martin Harris Centre, the Manchester Library Theatre,
and the London Film School. His research focuses on subjectivity,
gender, and early 20th-Century writing, particularly
William Carlos Williams, TS Eliot, and James Joyce.
 Christopher Walker
Christopher Walker is the programme leader for De
Montfort University’s MA in Television Scriptwriting, which he
helped to design. He was the Head of Central Independent
Television’s Script Unit and the Creative Executive of CTCP
(Columbia TriStar Central Productions). He is an experienced
television script editor and, as a producer, was responsible for
all 94 episodes of the ITV sitcom The Upper Hand, which
featured Joe McGann, Diana Weston and Honor Blackman. He also
produced Sob Sisters written by Andrew Marshall
(2point4 Children, Whoops Apocalypse), which featured Gwen
Taylor, Polly Adams and Freddie Jones, for Central and has also
developed comedy projects for Carlton and the BBC.
He has contributed to screenwriting courses at
the Phoenix in Leicester, Broadway in Nottingham and the Metro in
Derby and has given guest lectures on situation comedy in the
United States and Germany. He has been an adviser to East
Midlands Arts, for whom he has tutored Residential Writing Courses,
and was on the board of trustees of Nottingham Playhouse. He
has been the Vice Chair of Dance 4, the regional dance agency, and
is the Vice Chair of Writing East Midlands, the regional writers’
agency.
His book, co-written with literary agent, Julian
Friedmann, The Insiders Guide to Writing for Television,
will be published by Crimson Publishing in June, 2012.
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