MA Creative Writing

writers from CCCU: cohort of 2020

Pat Aikin

Pat is an avid reader and writer. Fusing genres, she always brings thrill and pace to her writing, which encompasses fantasy and psychological thrillers.

Joseph Arnaud

Joseph is a speculative fiction author and tabletop game designer who teaches science, studies history, and owns his own RPG company.

Julie Atkins

Julie is passionate about writing funny, animal-based stories for very young children, featuring talking rabbits, naughty guinea pigs and escaping sausages!

Jack Byrne

Jack is a fantasy writer, story teller and Dungeon Master. He writes stories, short and long, about warriors, wizards, witches, and the occasional were-walrus.

Trevor Cleaves

You want Wizards, Robots, Rabbits, Hobbits, Ghosts, someone who’s toast? Look away. Trevor writes folk who are misplaced and floundering and need your support.

David Cox

David is an IT professional, a part-time writer, a family man and a dog lover. His hobby is golf. His preferred writing genre is fantasy/horror.

Ian Dallaway

Ian’s techno-crime thriller in progress brings his knowledge of business, silver-smithing and scientific developments to surroundings he knows well.

Rebecca Jewell

Rebecca is an all-ages fiction writer and video-game reviewer. She’d big on distinctive voices, eccentric characters and awkward protagonists, and is currently obsessed with elves.

Liam Johnson

Liam is an aspiring author with a penchant for experimental horror and narrative misconduct, who likes to see what sticks when combining the two.

Nathan Mccully

Nathan is a new author who strives to employ disturbing fantasy fiction narratives to explore the emotions and connections that make us all human.

Chris Marsh

Chris was named ‘Kent Writer of the Year’ in 1991. In 2020, he can be found continuing to write, dogged by the albatross of potentially peaking too soon.

Debbie Murphy

Debbie is a children’s writer and blogger who has a passion for adventures in space and should really have trained as an astronaut.

Tessa Tiley

Tessa writes short, speculative fiction ‘with heart’. Her first collection, Another Reality, takes readers on a journey into the unknown and leaves them asking: ‘what if…?’

Elizabeth Waterman-Scrase

Elizabeth’s novel in progress is based on her short story series The Tales of Rumbucket Lane, dedicated to telling Victorian tales with humour and accuracy.

Janet Witts

Janet writes humorous poems and odes all about the menopausal woman and her quirky look on life, touching on taboo subjects.