Dr Ann Matthews
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Department of English & Creative Writing
Contact Details
- Email: anm70@aber.ac.uk
- Office: D52, Hugh Owen Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 621944
- Research Portal Profile
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
- WR11300 - Creative Practice
- WR30000 - The Writing Project
- WR11320 - Creative Practice
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WR10220 - Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
- WR30040 - The Writing Project
- WR31220 - Poetry for today
- WL20320 - Short stories: Grit and Candour
- WR10420 - Introduction to Poetry
Attendance Dept Admin
- EN10220 - Ancestral Voices
- EN10520 - Contemporary Writing
- EN11220 - American Literature 1819-1925
- EN21220 - Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- EN23420 - Demons, Degenerates and New Women (Fin de Siecle Fictions)
- EN30040 - Undergraduate Dissertation
- EN30120 - Reading Theory / Reading Text
- EN30320 - Victorian Childhoods
- EN30520 - Romantic Eroticism
- WRM6140 - Writer as Practitioner 1
- WRM6240 - Writer as Professional
- EN22120 - Place and Self
- EN22920 - Literature since 1945
- PGM1810 - Ways of Working
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WL30620 - Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- WL32220 - Reading and Writing Science Fiction
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
- WR32320 - Kapow! Reading and Writing Graphic Narratives
- WRM6320 - Writer as Scholar
- ENM1620 - Women, Fiction and Female Community, 1660-1792
- PGM2910 - Research Writing Programme
- WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- WR20620 - Writing Selves
- WR30040 - The Writing Project
- EN21620 - Contemporary Queer Fiction
- EN23120 - In the Olde Days: Medieval Texts and Their World
- EN30820 - Haunting Texts
- ENM1520 - Romantic Radical Cultures
- ENM3020 - Research and Project Planning
- PGM1610 - Public Engagement and Impact
- WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
- CL20320 - Classical Drama and Myth
- EN11320 - Critical Practice
- ENM1720 - Sensational Sales: Victorian Popular Literature 1848-1894
- WL11420 - Literature And The Sea
- WR11320 - Creative Practice
- CL10120 - Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
- EN21020 - Literary Geographies
- ENM1120 - Medieval Dreams and Marvels
- ENM1820 - Writing Ireland, Writing Wales
- WR10020 - Reading for Writers
- WR20220 - Beginning the Novel
- WR21720 - Shaping Plots
- WR31220 - Poetry for today
- WR32420 - Writing Crime Fiction
- EN21120 - Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- EN31320 - The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920a
- ENM0220 - Queer and Now: 100 years of Queer Writing
- ENM1220 - Postwar American Fiction
- WL20220 - Reading and Writing Fantasy Fiction
- WR10220 - Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
- WR32620 - Writing Music
- WRM6420 - Writing Poetry: Modes in Contemporary Poetry
- EN20120 - Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- ENM0560 - Master's Dissertation
- PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
- WR21120 - Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
- EN20920 - Literary Modernisms
- WR32720 - Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
- WR32820 - Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
- EN11520 - The Beginning of the English Language
- WL35320 - Literatures of Surveillance
- WL20720 - A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- WRM6620 - Writer as Professional
- EN30420 - Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
- EN33320 - Speculative Fiction and the Climate Crisis
- ENM0920 - 21st-Century Medievalisms
- WL20320 - Short stories: Grit and Candour
- WR31820 - Crisis Writing
- EN28720 - Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- EN11620 - Critical Practice
- WR10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- EN19920 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
Coordinator
- WR11300 - Creative Practice
- WR11320 - Creative Practice
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
- WR31220 - Poetry for today
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WL20320 - Short stories: Grit and Candour
- WR10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WR30040 - The Writing Project
- WR30000 - The Writing Project
- WR10220 - Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
Blackboard Dept Admin
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
- WRM6420 - Writing Poetry: Modes in Contemporary Poetry
- EN11220 - American Literature 1819-1925
- EN21120 - Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- EN23120 - In the Olde Days: Medieval Texts and Their World
- EN31320 - The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920a
- PGM2910 - Research Writing Programme
- WL20220 - Reading and Writing Fantasy Fiction
- WL30620 - Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- WR10020 - Reading for Writers
- EN30320 - Victorian Childhoods
- ENM1720 - Sensational Sales: Victorian Popular Literature 1848-1894
- WR20620 - Writing Selves
- WR32620 - Writing Music
- WRM6240 - Writer as Professional
- EN10220 - Ancestral Voices
- EN20120 - Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- EN21020 - Literary Geographies
- EN21220 - Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- EN21620 - Contemporary Queer Fiction
- EN30520 - Romantic Eroticism
- EN30820 - Haunting Texts
- ENM0220 - Queer and Now: 100 years of Queer Writing
- ENM0560 - Master's Dissertation
- ENM1220 - Postwar American Fiction
- PGM1810 - Ways of Working
- WL32220 - Reading and Writing Science Fiction
- WR32320 - Kapow! Reading and Writing Graphic Narratives
- WRM6140 - Writer as Practitioner 1
- ENM1120 - Medieval Dreams and Marvels
- ENM1520 - Romantic Radical Cultures
- PGM1610 - Public Engagement and Impact
- WL11420 - Literature And The Sea
- WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
- EN11320 - Critical Practice
- EN30040 - Undergraduate Dissertation
- EN30120 - Reading Theory / Reading Text
- ENM3020 - Research and Project Planning
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WR21720 - Shaping Plots
- CL10120 - Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
- CL20320 - Classical Drama and Myth
- EN23420 - Demons, Degenerates and New Women (Fin de Siecle Fictions)
- ENM1620 - Women, Fiction and Female Community, 1660-1792
- PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
- WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- WR10220 - Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
- WR21120 - Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- WR30040 - The Writing Project
- WR31220 - Poetry for today
- EN10520 - Contemporary Writing
- EN22120 - Place and Self
- EN22920 - Literature since 1945
- ENM1820 - Writing Ireland, Writing Wales
- WR11320 - Creative Practice
- WR20220 - Beginning the Novel
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
- WR32420 - Writing Crime Fiction
- WRM6320 - Writer as Scholar
- EN20920 - Literary Modernisms
- WR32720 - Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
- EN28720 - Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- EN11520 - The Beginning of the English Language
- ENM0920 - 21st-Century Medievalisms
- WL20720 - A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- WR31820 - Crisis Writing
- EN30420 - Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
- WL20320 - Short stories: Grit and Candour
- EN33320 - Speculative Fiction and the Climate Crisis
- WL35320 - Literatures of Surveillance
- WRM6620 - Writer as Professional
- WR32820 - Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
- EN11620 - Critical Practice
- WR10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- EN19920 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
Lecturer
- WR30040 - The Writing Project
- WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
- WR11320 - Creative Practice
- WR30000 - The Writing Project
- WR11300 - Creative Practice
- EN11620 - Critical Practice
Tutor
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
- WR11320 - Creative Practice
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
- WRM6100 - Writer as Practitioner 1
- WRM6140 - Writer as Practitioner 1
- WR31220 - Poetry for today
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WR11300 - Creative Practice
- WR30040 - The Writing Project
- WRM6320 - Writer as Scholar
Grader
Teaches prose and poetry to Undergraduates and Postgraduates.
Research
Ann Matthews Teaches Creative Writing across poetry and prose. Her research interests encompass modernist and poststructural approaches to the short story and innovative landscape and city poetry with a special interest in identity and place. She is interested in the methodology and philosophy of collecting materials to write from and also the interpretation of ‘everyday living’ within fiction. This includes an interest in Dirty Realism and the use of non-standard English. She has recently completed her third poetry collection Home Turf (out in 2018). 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 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 a collection of interlinking short stories and working on an innovative autobiography Fringes about life and 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