Dr Zoe Lambert
LecturerResearch Overview
My research in creative writing (research as practice) is in short fiction and short stories, as well as linked short story collections, novels in stories and composite novels. My current creative research is in writing and disability, with a focus on carers and caring. My other area of interest is in speculative fiction, especially work that plays with genre boundaries.
Current Teaching
I am Director of the MA in Creative Writing (Modular)
I teach the BA modules on the short story, including Crew 204: Short Story and Crew 308: Advanced Short Story.
Career Details
Since 2005 I have worked as an associate lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, The University of Bolton and Edge Hill University. I have also facilitated creative writing workshops around Manchester and the North West on a freelance basis. My most recent workshop was with English PEN and Help for Heroes at Tedworth House recovery centre.
Over the past few years I have published my short stories widely in the UK. My sequence of short stories was published by Comma Press in 2006, and my full length collection of short stories, The War Tour, was published in 2011.
I have given numerous readings at literature festivals and events over the past few years, and continue to do so.
Thesis Title
When I Get Home: A Collection of Short Stories and Accompanying Critical Commentary
Current Research
The common focus of my two research areas is the body, whether it is ‘augmented’ or ‘disabled’ and the body’s relationship to society. One strand of my writing explores the experiences of caring, the body, and chronic illness. My other research area explores the body in terms of human augmentation and ‘biopunk’ , as well as climate change.
Web Links
www.zoelambert.org
http://www.commapress.co.uk/?section=books&page=TheWarTour
http://www.rcwlitagency.com/Author.aspx?auid=1522
twiter: @zoeflambert
instagram: @fluffnbooks
Qualifications
BA English Hons, English, First Class, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2000.
MA Creative Writing Unversity of East Anglia, 2002.
PhD Creative Writing, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2010.
PhD Supervision Interests
I am interested in supervising projects in short stories, linked short story collections, 'novels in stories' and 'in between' forms. I am interested in writing that has a political focus, as well as novels that merge genre and literary fiction, as well as writing which explores issues of disability and caring. My other area of interest is speculative fiction, especially work that attempts to engage with current science and issues of climate change.
Digital Threads:Towards a Personalised Craft Production in Malay Cottage Industries
14/02/2017 → 13/02/2019
Research
FASS Funded Project with Young Carers
01/05/2015 → 15/08/2015
Other
Writing Sexual Violence in the Age of #MeToo
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
Not Hope But Planetary Magic; Elemental Engagement with (Chinese) Digital Infrastructures in An Age of Loss
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Levy Fringe Festival
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
short story reading at Manchester Grammar School
Invited talk
Resist Stories of Protest at the Hay Festival
Invited talk
The New Humans and writing about the future
Invited talk
'Translating Chronic Pain', Podcast with pain charity Pain Concern
Other
Launch event of the anthology, We Were Strangers
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
European Association of Creative Writing Programmes
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
workshop on writing about pain
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
Led an AHRC-funded Creative Writing Workshop in Manchester
Other
Creative Summit
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
writing endings in short stories
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Writing About Caring
Oral presentation
Launch of Headland: Ten Years of the Edge Hill Prize
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Talk on Writing Refugees with Cambridge Student PEN
Invited talk
Short Fiction: The Visual Literary Journal (Journal)
Editorial activity
Writing on the Wall (Publisher)
Editorial activity
Writing for Liberty
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
After Dark: Lancaster's Festival of Sleep
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Disabilities Studies Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Best Paper Honourable Mention Award ACM CHI 2019
Prize (including medals and awards)
The Edge Hill Short Story Prize
Prize (including medals and awards)
- Creative Writing
- Literature, Science and Medicine
- Literature, the Arts, Media and Performance
- Transcultural Writing