I am a Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester. Winner of a national science fiction novel competition (One Giant Write, run by Literature Works) and a PhD student essay prize (AHRC10), as well as several commissions for the Centre for New Writing, I have been a self-employed wordsmith since 2000. With articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Writing in Practice, New Writing, Revenant and Gramarye, I have also written a monthly 'writers in the landscape' feature for Cotswold Life magazine, been a judge for The London Magazineshort story competition, and appeared on TV and radio to discuss authors.
I am the author of over a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, including Desiring Dragons: creativity, imagination and the writer's quest (Compass Books, 2014); Oxfordshire Folk Tales, Northamptonshire Folk Tales, Ballad Tales (The History Press, 2012, 2013, 2017); Lost Islands: inventing Avalon, destroying Eden (Heart of Albion Press, 2010); and The Windsmith Elegy fantasy series (Awen, 2004-2012). I have taught creative writing for the Open University, University of Bath, University of Portsmouth, and Imperial College. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Hawthornden and the Eccles Centre for North American Studies at the British Library. I blog and tweet as the Bardic Academic.
https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/people/dr-kevan-manwaring
