Staff profiles
Mike Harris
BA
E-mail m.harris@shu.ac.uk
Current work
I am a scriptwriter and theatre director teaching the MA in script writing at Sheffield Hallam and marking novel. Successful MA tutees include Sharon Oakes who has sold numerous radio plays, and has been a regular contributor to the TV Series 'Doctors'.
My academic research interest is the theory and practice of creative writing composition and this forms the basis of my PhD research.
Research collaborations
Writer in residence at HMP Wakefield 1994-5, University College Cork 1997, and The Lemon Tree Arts Centre Aberdeen 2002-4. Work for the British Council developing young writers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2004) and Kano, Nigeria (2008).
Research outputs
Scripts
The Disappearance of Jennifer Pope (Afternoon play BBC Radio 4 Drama (TX 30.03. 2011).
From One Extreme to Another (drama about Islamic extremism and the far right white for GW theatre company: currently touring schools, colleges, prisons, arts centres and community centres with a total audience so far of over 250,000 and rising).
The Prodigal Fraudster - episode of the Drama Series - The Prospect' TX BBC Radio 4 Drama 24.07.2009.
Septimus Greabe Agent of the SSV (Afternoon play BBC Radio 4 drama TX June 2008)
The Monstrous Mother (Friday play, BBC Radio 4 drama TX 11.01.08)
'Taking risks' (episode of BBC Radio 4 political drama series 'No 10' (TX 08/07)
Homelands - (community play for Punjabi area of Manchester 06)
Auguste Levasseur Chef Des Claqueurs - (BBC R 4 TX: 28.07.06)
The Man Who Mistook His Life For an Organiser - (BBC R 4 TX: 04 repeated 2005)
Acting Your Age - (Theatre in Education [TIE] piece about 'anti-social behaviour' for GW Theatre Co 2005)
Dreaming in Africa - (Afternoon play BBC R4 Tx: 12.05.05)
Out of This World (Multi-media community play in giant circus tent, Manchester, Nov 2004)
A Likely Story (T.I.E pieceabout storytelling, GW Theatre Co. - tours of junior schools 04-05)
The Other Man (Adaptation of Bernard Schlink short story BBC R 4 tx 10.12.2003)
Publications and papers
'Escaping the tractor beam of literary theory: notes towards appropriate theories of creative writing - and some arguments against the inappropriate ones' paper published in TEXT.
'Shakespeare was more creative when he was dead: is creativity theory a better fit on creative writing than literary theory?' To be published 2011, in New Writing: the international journal for the practice and theory of creative writing (Routledge).
'Fighting the war against Terror: creativity, collaboration, compromise, and waking up in bed with the funding devil'. Chapter to be published 2010 in anthology: The Creativity Market: is it desirable or sustainable? ed. Hecq. Pub: Multilingual Matters.
'Are writers really there when they write about their writing' - paper for 2008 AWPP conference in Sidney, Australia and for English Studies Centre Web Site: 'Creative writing: Teaching Theory and Practice' as of Jan 2009.
Chapters on script writing and radio drama in The Handbook of Creative writing (Edinburgh University Press. 2007 Ed. Steve Earnshaw).
Papers on creative writing practice and literary theory for 2005 and 2007 conferences of National Association of Writers in Education.
The Good Fiction Guide (Oxford University Press 2001/2005. Assistant editor and contributor.
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