Dr Ann Matthews
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
Department of English & Creative Writing
Contact Details
- Email: anm70@aber.ac.uk
- Office: D70, Hugh Owen Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 621944
- Research Portal Profile
- Personal Pronouns: she/her
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WR11020 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
Lecturer
- WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
- WR11120 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
- WL30140 - Independent Research Project
Coordinator
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
- WR11020 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
Grader
Attendance Dept Admin
- EN10120 - Critical Practice
- EN10220 - Ancestral Voices
- EN11220 - American Literature 1819-1925
- EN11320 - Critical Practice
- EN19920 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- EN20120 - Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- EN21020 - Literary Geographies
- EN21120 - Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- EN21220 - Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- EN22120 - Place and Self
- EN22920 - Literature since the '60s
- EN28720 - Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- EN30120 - Reading Theory / Reading Text
- EN30320 - Victorian Childhoods
- EN30420 - Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
- EN30820 - Haunting Texts
- EN31320 - The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
- EN33620 - Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
- EN38120 - Post-Colonial African Literature in English
- ENM0220 - Queer and Now: 100 years of Queer Writing
- ENM0560 - Master's Dissertation
- ENM1220 - Postwar American Fiction
- ENM1520 - Romantic Radical Cultures
- ENM1620 - Women, Fiction and Female Community, 1660-1792
- ENM3020 - Research and Project Planning
- ENM3120 - Reading Ulysses
- ENM3220 - Literature and Human Rights
- ENM3320 - Poetry After Darwin
- ENM3720 - Representing Disability: Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
- PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
- PGM1610 - Public Engagement and Impact
- WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WL10820 - We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
- WL11420 - Literature And The Sea
- WL11920 - Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
- WL20320 - Short stories: Grit and Candour
- WL20420 - Reading the Classroom: from the Nursery to the University
- WL20720 - A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- WL23120 - 'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
- WL30140 - Independent Research Project
- WL30620 - Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- WL35320 - Literatures of Surveillance
- WR11020 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
- WR11120 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
- WR20620 - Writing Selves
- WR21120 - Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
- WR31820 - Crisis Writing
- WR31920 - Writing Horror
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
- WR32420 - Writing Crime Fiction
- WR32620 - Writing Music
- WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
- WRM6140 - Writer as Practitioner 1
- WRM6320 - Writer as Scholar
- WRM6420 - Modes in Contemporary Poetry
- WRM6620 - Writer as Professional
Blackboard Dept Admin
- EN10120 - Critical Practice
- EN10220 - Ancestral Voices
- EN11220 - American Literature 1819-1925
- EN11320 - Critical Practice
- EN19920 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- EN20120 - Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- EN21020 - Literary Geographies
- EN21120 - Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- EN21220 - Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- EN22120 - Place and Self
- EN22920 - Literature since the '60s
- EN28720 - Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- EN30120 - Reading Theory / Reading Text
- EN30320 - Victorian Childhoods
- EN30420 - Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
- EN30820 - Haunting Texts
- EN31320 - The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
- EN33620 - Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
- EN38120 - Post-Colonial African Literature in English
- ENM0220 - Queer and Now: 100 years of Queer Writing
- ENM0560 - Master's Dissertation
- ENM1220 - Postwar American Fiction
- ENM1520 - Romantic Radical Cultures
- ENM1620 - Women, Fiction and Female Community, 1660-1792
- ENM3020 - Research and Project Planning
- ENM3120 - Reading Ulysses
- ENM3220 - Literature and Human Rights
- ENM3320 - Poetry After Darwin
- ENM3720 - Representing Disability: Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
- PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
- PGM1610 - Public Engagement and Impact
- WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WL10820 - We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
- WL11420 - Literature And The Sea
- WL11920 - Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
- WL20320 - Short stories: Grit and Candour
- WL20420 - Reading the Classroom: from the Nursery to the University
- WL20720 - A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- WL23120 - 'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
- WL30140 - Independent Research Project
- WL30620 - Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- WL35320 - Literatures of Surveillance
- WR11020 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
- WR11120 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
- WR20620 - Writing Selves
- WR21120 - Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
- WR31820 - Crisis Writing
- WR31920 - Writing Horror
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
- WR32420 - Writing Crime Fiction
- WR32620 - Writing Music
- WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
- WRM6140 - Writer as Practitioner 1
- WRM6320 - Writer as Scholar
- WRM6420 - Modes in Contemporary Poetry
- WRM6620 - Writer as Professional
Teaches short fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry to Undergraduates and Postgraduates.
Research
Ann Matthews teaches Creative Writing across all forms, with a specific interest in identity and place. She is interested in the methodology and philosophy of collecting materials to write from; and in practical terms, through extensive fieldwork and archival research. She also researches and writes around the interpretation of ‘everyday living’ within fiction. This includes an interest in Dirty Realism and the use of non-standard English. She completed her third poetry collection, Home Turf , in 2020. Her poetry collections Strangeways (2014) and Losing Boundaries (2016) were published by Knives Forks and Spoons Press. Poems from the latter were displayed as part of the Blackpool Illuminations in 2015. Her poems have been published in Blackbox Manifold, Tears in the Fence, Shearsman Magazine, Shadow Train, Litmus, Poem Art Threat and A Glimpse of/ a hybrid form of narrative e-magazine. Her short stories have been published in Beatification Magazine, London Journal of Fiction, Indigo Journal and StepAway Magazine. She is currently completing her fourth poetry collection Sphere (SY23 and beyond) and working on an innovative anti-autobiography. Fringes about life and underground music in Wales in the 1990s.
Publications
Matthews, A 2020, Home Turf. Knives, Forks, and Spoons Press.
Matthews, A 2016, Losing Boundaries. Knives, Forks, and Spoons Press, newton le willows.
Matthews, A 2014, Strangeways. Knives, Forks, and Spoons Press, Newton le Willows.
More publications on the Research Portal