Dr Ann Matthews

Module Coordinator

• AB2 Introduction to Poetry (WL10420)
• AB2 Short stories: Grit and Candour (WL20320)
• AB1 Beginning Creative Writing Part 1 (WR11020)
• AB2 Writing Selves (WR20620)
• AB1 Adventures with Poetry (WR22120)
• AB1 Writing and Place (WR32120)

• AB2 'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production (WL23120)
• AB1 A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s (WL20720)
• AB1 Abroad Year Credits (ASS0060)
• AB1 Abroad Year Credits (ENS0060)
• AB1 Abroad Year Credits (ENS0160)
• AB1 Adventures with Poetry (WR22120)
• AB1 Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s) (EN33620)
• AB1 American Literature 1800-2000 (EN11220)
• AB2 Ancestral Voices (EN10220)
• AB1 Beginning Creative Writing Part 1 (WR11020)
• AB2 Beginning Creative Writing Part 2 (WR11120)
• AB2 Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis (EN21120)
• AB1 Crisis Writing (WR31820)
• AB1 Critical Practice (EN10120)
• AB1 Critical Practice (EN11320)
• AB1 Haunting Texts (EN30820)
• AB1 Independent Research Project (WL30140)
• AB2 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change (EN19920)
• AB2 Introduction to Poetry (WL10420)
• AB1 Literary Geographies (EN21020)
• AB1 Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues (EN20120)
• AB2 Literatue and Climate in the Nineteenth Century (EN21220)
• AB1 Literature And The Sea (WL11420)
• AB1 Literature and Human Rights (ENM3220)
• AB1 Literature since the '60s (EN22920)
• AB2 Literatures of Surveillance (WL35320)
• AB2 Modes in Contemporary Poetry (WRM6420)
• AB2 Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now (WL11920)
• AB2 Place and Self (EN22120)
• AB2 Poetry After Darwin (ENM3320)
• AB2 Post-Colonial African Literature in English (EN38120)
• AB1 Postwar American Fiction (ENM1220)
• AB2 Public Engagement and Impact (PGM1610)
• AB2 Queer and Now: 100 years of Queer Writing (ENM0220)
• AB1 Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature (WL10120)
• AB1 Reading Theory / Reading Text (EN30120)
• AB2 Reading Ulysses (ENM3120)
• AB1 Reading the Classroom: from the Nursery to the University (WL20420)
• AB1 Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now (WL30620)
• AB2 Representing Disability: Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century (ENM3720)
• AB2 Research and Project Planning (ENM3020)
• AB1 Romantic Radical Cultures (ENM1520)
• AB2 Short stories: Grit and Candour (WL20320)
• AB1 Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction (WR21120)
• AB2 The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920a (EN31320)
• AB1 Victorian Childhoods (EN30320)
• AB1 Ways of Reading (PGM0410)
• AB2 We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present (WL10820)
• AB1 Women, Fiction and Female Community, 1660-1792 (ENM1620)
• AB1 Writer as Practitioner 1 (WRM6140)
• AB2 Writer as Professional (WRM6620)
• AB1 Writer as Scholar (WRM6320)
• AB1 Writing Crime Fiction (WR32420)
• AB2 Writing Horror (WR31920)
• AB2 Writing Music (WR32620)
• AB2 Writing Selves (WR20620)
• AB1 Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780 (EN28720)
• AB1 Writing and Place (WR32120)
• AB2 Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English (EN30420)

Lecturer

• AB2 Beginning Creative Writing Part 2 (WR11120)
• AB1 Independent Research Project (WL30140)

Grader

• AB1 Ways of Reading (PGM0410)

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.