We develop methods of creative practice, practice-based research and creative-critical inquiry that help to define and further the fields of creative writing and writing and wellbeing.

Our work includes creative publications in a wide range of fields, together with protocols, paradigms and techniques that can be used in personal and professional development, education, therapy and health care.

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

— Maya Angelou

Creative Writing Lab Team

  • Jessica Wortley

    Jess is conducting creative practice-based research into the benefits of writing in and about nature.

  • Victoria Bailey

    Victoria’s practice-based research explores her ‘mother line’ using writing as a creative-critical method of inquiry.

  • Eve Darwood

    Eve’s creative practice-based research investigates illness experience through lyric memoir.

  • Bryan Nyary

    Bryan’s practice-based research explores auto-fiction, trauma and humanitarian aid worker memoir.

  • Russell Pollard

    Russell’s practice-based research explores trauma and moral injury among veterans, using writing and performance.

  • Sam Rose

    Sam’s autoethnographic practice-based research explores her experiences of cancer and Lynch Syndrome.