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Jonathan TaylorDepartment of English and Creative WritingSenior Lecturer in Creative Writing Contact Details:
Jonathan Taylor, B.A. (Warwick), M.A. (Warwick), Ph.D (Loughborough), is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at De Montfort University. His specialisms include prose writing (fiction and non-fiction), memoir-writing, radio writing, poetry and literature of the ‘long’ nineteenth-century. Jonathan is the author of the memoir Take Me Home: Parkinson’s, My Father, Myself (Granta, 2007), and two monographs, Science and Omniscience in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Sussex Academic Press, 2007) and Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003). With Dr. Andrew Dix, he is the co-editor of the collection of essays Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in English and American Writing, 1800-2000 (Sussex Academic Press, 2005). With Maria Taylor, he is the co-editor of Fizzle & Sizzle: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose By Young Writers in Leicestershire (Crystal Clear Creators (CCC) Publishing, 2008). He is currently completing a novel, Entertaining Strangers (forthcoming). Jonathan has published short stories, poetry, feature articles, comment articles, reviews and creative non-fiction in many and various magazines, journals, newspapers and anthologies, including Staple, Acumen, Guardian Education, Guardian Family, Times Higher, Times Families, Granta, Times Literary Supplement, Kimota, Raw Edge, Cadences, The Parkinson, Family History Monthly, Veto, Spilt Milk Magazine, A Chide’s Alphabet, Coffee House, Speaking Words: Writing for Reading Aloud, Xenos, Wandering Dog, Stand, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and others. Radio scripts, serials, stories, readings and interviews have been recorded and broadcast on radio stations including Oneword, BBC Radio 5, Resonance FM, Takeover Radio, Carillon Radio, Virtually American, Heat Rays, Festive Radio, Radio Veralun, Radio Wildfire, Heat FM, BBC Scotland, BBC Wales, BBC Three Counties, BBC Sussex, BBC Cumbria, BBC Leicester, BBC Cornwall and many others. His critical essays have been published in journals and anthologies including Clio, The Dickens Studies Annual, Figures of Heresy, and The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction (ed. Sophie Fuller and Nicky Losseff). Jonathan has given public readings of his stories, scripts and memoir in universities, schools, colleges, book festivals, theatres, arts centres and other venues across the country, including Liverpool, Leicester, Loughborough, Lincoln, Warwick Words, Birmingham, London, Southampton, Lowdham Book Festival, Northampton, Newmarket and elsewhere. He regularly gives readings and talks for local Parkinson’s Disease Societies and LOROS. He has organised and compered live events for the public in Loughborough and Leicester, including open mic events, panels and readings by well-known writers. He has delivered academic conference papers and chaired conference panels in London, Sheffield, Glasgow, Reading, Keele, Loughborough, Leicester, Lancaster, Chicago and elsewhere. Jonathan is co-founder and co-director of Crystal Clear Creators (www.crystalclearcreators.org.uk), an arts organisation and not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, which records, publishes, produces and promotes new writing, particularly for radio. Crystal Clear Creators is funded by Arts Council England, Awards for All, Heritage Lottery Fund, Mediabox, Ernest Cook Trust, Riverside Midlands, Charnwood Arts, AOL and others. It runs creative writing dayschools and media courses, produces and promotes radio dramas and audio work, hosts live readings, runs Restricted Service Licence Broadcasts, and houses a publishing imprint, Crystal Clear Creators (CCC) Publishing, which publishes anthologies of new work. Crystal Clear Creators has over 100 members.
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