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
- WR30040 - The Writing Project
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WR11020 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
- WR31220 - Poetry for today
Attendance Dept Admin
- WR32620 - Writing Music
- WR32720 - Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
- WL20720 - A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- WR11120 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
- EN28720 - Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- EN22120 - Place and Self
- WRM6320 - Writer as Scholar
- WL35320 - Literatures of Surveillance
- PGM1610 - Public Engagement and Impact
- EN30820 - Haunting Texts
- EN31320 - The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
- ENM0020 - Late Modernist Poetry
- ENM0560 - Master's Dissertation
- EN10520 - Contemporary Writing
- EN21020 - Literary Geographies
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
- WL30620 - Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- WR20220 - Beginning the Novel
- WR20620 - Writing Selves
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
- EN30420 - Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
- ENM1520 - Romantic Radical Cultures
- ENM1720 - Sensational Sales: Victorian Popular Literature 1848-1894
- EN11220 - American Literature 1819-1925
- EN19920 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
- WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WL11420 - Literature And The Sea
- WR21120 - Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- WR31220 - Poetry for today
- EN30040 - Undergraduate Dissertation
- EN11320 - Critical Practice
- EN20920 - Literary Modernisms
- WR32820 - Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
- WR21720 - Shaping Plots
- ENM1220 - Postwar American Fiction
- ENM1620 - Women, Fiction and Female Community, 1660-1792
- EN10220 - Ancestral Voices
- WRM6620 - Writer as Professional
- WR31920 - Writing Horror
- WR32420 - Writing Crime Fiction
- ENM3120 - Reading Ulysses
- EN30120 - Reading Theory / Reading Text
- EN22920 - Literature since the '60s
- CL20320 - Classical Drama and Myth
- WRM6420 - Modes in Contemporary Poetry
- WR11020 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
- WL20320 - Short stories: Grit and Candour
- PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
- EN20120 - Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- EN21120 - Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- EN21220 - Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- WR30040 - The Writing Project
- WR31820 - Crisis Writing
- WRM6140 - Writer as Practitioner 1
- ENM3020 - Research and Project Planning
- EN23120 - In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
- EN30320 - Victorian Childhoods
- EN30520 - Romantic Eroticism
- EN33620 - Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
- ENM0220 - Queer and Now: 100 years of Queer Writing
- CL10120 - Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
- WL20420 - Reading the Classroom: from the Nursery to the University
- WL11920 - Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Blackboard Dept Admin
- WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- ENM0020 - Late Modernist Poetry
- WRM6320 - Writer as Scholar
- WR20620 - Writing Selves
- WR21120 - Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- ENM1620 - Women, Fiction and Female Community, 1660-1792
- WR11120 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
- WR21720 - Shaping Plots
- EN30420 - Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
- EN30520 - Romantic Eroticism
- EN30820 - Haunting Texts
- ENM0220 - Queer and Now: 100 years of Queer Writing
- EN22120 - Place and Self
- EN23120 - In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
- CL10120 - Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
- WRM6140 - Writer as Practitioner 1
- WL11420 - Literature And The Sea
- WL20320 - Short stories: Grit and Candour
- WR20220 - Beginning the Novel
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
- PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
- EN30320 - Victorian Childhoods
- EN20920 - Literary Modernisms
- EN21120 - Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- WR31820 - Crisis Writing
- WR32720 - Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
- WR32820 - Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
- WRM6420 - Modes in Contemporary Poetry
- WRM6620 - Writer as Professional
- WL30620 - Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- ENM0560 - Master's Dissertation
- ENM3020 - Research and Project Planning
- EN20120 - Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- EN21220 - Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- EN28720 - Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- EN30040 - Undergraduate Dissertation
- CL20320 - Classical Drama and Myth
- WL35320 - Literatures of Surveillance
- WR32420 - Writing Crime Fiction
- ENM3120 - Reading Ulysses
- EN31320 - The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
- ENM1220 - Postwar American Fiction
- EN10220 - Ancestral Voices
- EN11220 - American Literature 1819-1925
- EN11320 - Critical Practice
- EN19920 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- EN21020 - Literary Geographies
- EN22920 - Literature since the '60s
- WR11020 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
- WR31220 - Poetry for today
- WR31920 - Writing Horror
- WR32620 - Writing Music
- ENM1520 - Romantic Radical Cultures
- ENM1720 - Sensational Sales: Victorian Popular Literature 1848-1894
- EN10520 - Contemporary Writing
- WR30040 - The Writing Project
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
- WL20720 - A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- PGM1610 - Public Engagement and Impact
- EN30120 - Reading Theory / Reading Text
- EN33620 - Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
- WL20420 - Reading the Classroom: from the Nursery to the University
- WL11920 - Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Coordinator
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
- WR11020 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WR30040 - The Writing Project
- WR31220 - Poetry for today
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
Lecturer
- WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
- WRM6420 - Modes in Contemporary Poetry
- WR11120 - Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Grader
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