Research

Practice Research (Creative Writing)

This cluster is renowned for its postgraduate courses, its outreach and events, and the creative works produced by its members.

Staff

Publications

2026

Flaherty Maguire, M. (2026) Taps. Hinterland, 18, pp. 44-63.

Melville, N. (2026) GET TAE. Blue Diode Publishing

Willie, M. (2026) Carrying shame. Common Ground Networks

Willie, M. (2026) Colonialism, Exile and the Caribbean Psyche: the novels of Garth St. Omer. Liverpool University Press

Flaherty Maguire, M. (2026) Little Monsters. Virginia Quarterly Review,

2025

Willie, M. S. (2025) Matrilineal inheritance. Caribbean Writer, 39,

Goldman, J. (2025) Gertrude Stein’s White Wines: performing (off)whiteness, (un)voicing racist language. Clemson University Press and Liverpool University Press

Willie, M. S. (2025) Hostage. sx salon, 50,

Goldman, J. (2025) “Only a head”: Gendered and racialised ways of seeing and reading the cover Illustration in Orlando: A Biography. Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre

Goldman, J. (2025) The Life of Monday or Tuesday. Edinburgh University Press

Strachan, Z., Scrutton, N. (2025) Test-pitting.

Welsh, L., Strachan, Z. (2025) A Very Quiet Street: toolkit for inclusive participation in local heritage.

2024

Strachan, Z. (2024) Martinmas Wind.

Goldman, J. (2024) The Coyotes in Gaza. COLLATERAL, 103,

Melville, N. (2024) POWER CUTS.

Goldman, J. (2024) There's a Hole in the News the Size of Poetry. Stewed Rhubarb Press

Collins, S. (2024) Private view. Granta, pp. 27-42.

Shea, A., Manders, A., Cran, A., Spoto, A., Foulkes, C., Reeder, E., Beatriz, E., Pearl Lewis, J., Haddow, K., Wardle, L., Richards, N., Sellar, N., Gordon, N., Keung, S. W. (2024) DeathWrites. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.325834)

Goldman, J. (2024) There's a Hole in the News the Size of Poetry (after Anne Boyer) COLLATERAL, 95,

Goldman, J., Herd, C., Melville, N., Sledmere, M., Morrison, I. (2024) NOT JUST A NY QUINCUNX. Mermaid Motel

Goldman, J. (2024) Into the Orchid House with Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf Miscellany, pp. 50-54.

Goldman, J. (2024) That queer feeling in the hot grass: Virginia Woolf and Poetry. Pace University Press

Melville, N. (2024) sounding [---] out. Essence Press

Melville, N. (2024) sounding [...] out.

Soyinka, B. et al. (2024) Subject Benchmark Statement: Creative Writing.

Goldman, J., Williams, J.L., Sledmere, M., Tarbuck, A., Coxam, A.L., Ayachi, J., Bering, T., Shirley, V. (2024) Pink Witch. Main Point Books

Willie, M. S. (2024) Blue shoes. sx salon, 45,

Goldman, J. (2024) You're Dead to Me - The Bloomsbury Group [Podcast]

Welsh, L., MacRae, S. (2024) Anthropocene Opera.

Welsh, L., Harrison, B. (2024) Perambulations of a Justified Sinner.

Welsh, L., Barber, J., [producer] Rifai, H. (2024) Podcast - Who Owns the Clyde.

Welsh, L. (2024) Short Story - La Scala Sauchiehall Street, BBC Radio 4.

Welsh, L. (2024) To the Dogs. Canongate Books

2023

Skeldon, K. et al. (2023) Research Firsts Exhibition. (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/ZQC5P)

(2023) Queer Form. Scottish Literary Review, 16,

Strachan, Z. (2023) Catch the Moments As They Fly. Blackwater Press

Strachan, Z., Scrutton, N. (2023) Lying Over Under Another.

Goldman, J. (2023) WHO IS THIS BASTARD (AND WHY ARE THEY LYING TO ME)? DIASTIC FOR JOHN COYLE. Blackbox Manifold, 30,

Herd, C., Onwuemezi, V. (2023) In conversation with Vanessa Onwuemezi. Granta,

Goldman, J. (2023) Gertrude Stein’s White Wines: performing (off) whiteness, (un)voicing racist language. Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, 7, (doi: 10.26597/mod.0259)

Goldman, J. (2023) Greyfriars Bobby. Scotsman, pp. 20 May.

Willie, M. S. (2023) A genealogy of the recognition of blackness in Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge and Foreigners: Three English Lives. Brill

Strachan, Z. (2023) Regarding Pheasants and Peacocks in the Grounds.

Goldman, J. (2023) 'West Port Garden (August)', 'West Port Garden (October)'; 'Slum Bud Poems (Notes on and from Norah Geddes)' Main Point Books

Goldman, J. (2023) Can Flush count?: Virginia Woolf, animality and numbers. Edinburgh University Press

Goldman, J., Catullus, G. V. (2023) Catullus 64. Main Point Books

Riach, A. (2023) The Ghost of John Nisbet: Hugh MacDiarmid's first published work. Studies in Scottish Literature, 49, pp. 11-27. (doi: 10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.3)

Herd, C., Sledmere, M. (2023) Cocoa and Nothing. Spam Press

Maguire, M. F. (2023) On not becoming an ecosexual: The question of animism. Virginia Quarterly Review, 98, pp. 128-137.

(2023) All Along the Edge: Contemporary Voices Explore the Roman Frontier.

Welsh, L., MacRae, S. (2023) Anthropocene Opera.

Melville, N. (2023) Magic's Quair. Timglaset

2022

Bissett, M., Gray, C. M., Abdulla, S., Bunn, C., Crampin, A. C., Dillip, A., Gill, J. M.R., Kaare, H. C., Kalima, S., Kambulu, E., Lwanda, J., Makoye, H. F., Mtema, O., Perry, M., Strachan, Z., Todd, H., Mtenga, S. M. (2022) "I see salt everywhere": a qualitative examination of the utility of arts-based participatory workshops to study noncommunicable diseases in Tanzania and Malawi. PLoS Global Public Health, 2, (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000927)

Goldman, J. (2022) There’s Lipstick on my Shark’s Tooth and Dog-spent in Winter Hole. Blackbox Manifold, 27,

Goldman, J. (2022) Signifying Dog: Afterglow’s Afterglow. Women's Studies, 51, pp. 876-879. (doi: 10.1080/00497878.2022.2149521)

Goldman, J., Pivanti, M., Ramos, P. P., Corrêa, L. G. (2022) All things Modernism: an interview with Jane Goldman. Palimpsesto, 21, pp. 28-71. (doi: 10.12957/palimpsesto.2022.69858)

Melville, N. (2022) THE IMPERATIVE COMMANDS. Dostoyevsky Wannabe

Strachan, Z., Scrutton, N. (2022) Test-pitting.

Goldman, J. (2022) JOAN EARDLEY TAKES HER PAINTS TO A CERTAIN PLACE. Speculative Books

Riach, A. (2022) Scottish Literature: An Introduction. Luath Press Ltd

Riach, A. (2022) La poesia escocesa moderna / Modern Scottish Poetry / Poemes / Poems. Associacio Cultural Amics de Joan Valls i Jorda

Marsman, L., Collins, S. (2022) The Opposite of a Person. Daunt Books

Goldman, J. (2022) Jane Goldman. Fruitmarket

Strachan, Z., Scrutton, N. (2022) Salt Cellar.

Goldman, J. (2022) Suddenly Grass. Gutter, pp. 72.

Goldman, J. (2022) Jane Goldman in dialogue with 7 poets. Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities

Welsh, L. (2022) The Second Cut. Cannongate

(2022) Glasgow.

Riach, A. (2022) Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy (1817; revised 1829–1830) De Gruyter

2021

Goldman, J. (2021) DOG-SPENT IN WINTER HOLE. IR11

Willie, M. S. (2021) Journey to Zion. Lolwe, 4,

(2021) Ghost: 100 Stories to Read with the Lights On.

Strachan, Z., Welsh, L. (2021) Something in the Air.

Herd, C., Lawrence, R. (2021) Stills: Colin Herd and Robbie Lawrence. Granta, 156,

Goldman, J. (2021) Burning feminism: Virginia Woolf's laboratory of intimacy. Edinburgh University Press

Goldman, J. (2021) Sekxphrastiks. Dostoyevsky Wannabe

Willie, M. S. (2021) Musing history. Caribbean Writer, 35,

Welsh, L. (2021) Introduction. Macmillan Collector's Library

Reeder, E., Thomson, A. (2021) microbursts. Prototype

Ferdous, R., Perry, M., Watuleke, J., Virhia, J., Yeshitella, P., Strachan, Z., Catanzaro, B. (2021) A Critical Resource for Understanding Research Impact for Participatory International Research. Sustainable Futures Global Network

Melville, N. (2021) Decade of Cu ts: New and Selected Poems 2010-2020. Blue Diode Press

Robinson, J., Strachan, Z., Okoth, Z. (2021) Everyday Clean.

2020

Strachan, Z., Scrutton, N. (2020) Up Closeness.

Strachan, Z. (2020) Mythopraxis. Northwords Now,

Goldman, J., Clarke, S. N. (2020) Explanatory notes. Cambridge University Press

Riach, A. (2020) Scottish literature, nationalism and the First World War. Edinburgh University Press

Reeder, E. (2020) An Archive of Happiness. Penned in the Margins

(2020) Joan Eardley: Centenary Collection.

Herd, C. (2020) Secretions. Granta, 152,

Melville, N. (2020) Abbodies Cold: SPECTRE. Sad Press

Strachan, Z. (2020) The past we inherit. The Homeless World Cup Foundation

Goldman, J. (2020) “Messages of Peace”: Bloomsbury’s Peace Terms; or, Working for “ancient woolf ’s peace-time university” Clemson University Press

Bunn, C., Kalinga, C., Mtema, O., Abdulla, S., Dillip, A., Lwanda, J., Mtenga, S., Sharp, J., Strachan, Z., Gray, C. (2020) Arts-based approaches to promoting health in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review. BMJ Global Health, 5, (doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001987)

Strachan, Z. (2020) After midnight. Gamoran Books

(2020) Cross-Channel Modernisms.

Goldman, J. (2020) Cross-Channel modernisms and the vicissitudes of a laughing torso: Nina Hamnett, artist, bohemian and writer in London and Paris. Edinburgh University Press

Goldman, J., Davison, C., Ryan, D. (2020) Introduction: Cross-Channel (Transmanche) modernisms. Edinburgh University Press

Aanyu, K., Barrett, B., Catanzano, B., Checchia, V., Duclos, V., McLean, H., Modise, O. M., Perry, M., Robinson, J., Sharp, J., Strachan, Z., Todd, H., Zaman, S. (2020) A Critical Resource for Ethical International Partnerships. Sustainable Futures in Africa Network

Strachan, Z. (2020) Zoë Strachan. Canongate

Goldman, J. (2020) Posfácio: Portable Peace Conference. Apeku

Welsh, L. (2020) No One Called Her Angel.

(2020) Edwin Morgan: Centenary Collection.

Goldman, J. (2020) Following Bradshaw and Bishop into Jacob's Room: British and Canadian editing strategies (tunnelling the textual hotspots, minding the gaps) Feminist Modernist Studies, 3, pp. 32-50. (doi: 10.1080/24692921.2020.1718977)

Goldman, J. (2020) Interlude: Mediating. Edinburgh University Press

Collins, S. (2020) Intimacy: an alternative model for literary translation. English: Journal of the English Association, 69, pp. 331-345. (doi: 10.1093/english/efaa033)

Woolf, V. (2020) Jacob's Room.

Riach, A. (2020) Stuart Hood: literature, media and politics in modern Scotland. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Riach, A., Moffat, A. (2020) Sydney Goodsir Smith, artist and art critic. Brill Rodopi

Goldman, J. (2020) Why I choose poetry (what’s nation got to do with it? What’s gender got to do with it?): A collective poetry-essay by 21 poets encountered in Scotland (2016–19) Contemporary Women's Writing, 14, pp. 276-315. (doi: 10.1093/cww/vpaa026)

2019

Goldman, J. (2019) Lady Lazarus Has Wheels: poem and note. Sch... : The Journal of the Kurt Schwitters Society, pp. 27-29.

Welsh, L., Firth, E. (2019) Storegga Slide.

Herd, C. (2019) You Name It. Dostoyevsky Wannabe

Herd, C., Dunlop, K. (2019) Interview with Kirsty Dunlop. SPAM Zine,

Strachan, Z. (2019) Short Works, From Fact to Fiction: After Midnight.

Strachan, Z. (2019) Four Thought: Identity Through Reading.

Riach, A. (2019) Scotland: drawing a line. Clutag Press

Welsh, L. (2019) Brick, Stone, Glass, The Mackintosh Building.

Scrutton, N., Strachan, Z. (2019) Rays & Correlations [a live to broadcast performance]

Goldman, J. (2019) Professor Tom Leonard: poet and scholar—good style. PlaySpace Publications

Welsh, L., MacRae, S. (2019) Anthropocene.

Welsh, L. (2019) An attempt at exhausting a scene in Glasgow.

Welsh, L., Pickstone, E. (2019) Glasgow School of Art Home Front Memorial.

Riach, A. (2019) Location and destination in Alasdair mac Mhaigshstir Alasdair’s ‘The Birlinn of Clanranald’ Palgrave Macmillan

Goldman, J. (2019) TORN FROM VAST SILLY HILLS RUN. Sternberg Press

Marsman, L., Collins, S. (2019) The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes. Liverpool University Press

Welsh, L. (2019) The face at the window.

Herd, C. (2019) “qquerl” : electracy & homographesis in David Melnick’s PCOET. Textshop Experiments, 6,

2018

Goldman, J. (2018) Fruitmarket triptych. The Fruitmarket

Goldman, J. (2018) what if the majolica plate. The Fruitmarket Gallery

Riach, A. (2018) This savage wood. Clutag

Strachan, Z. (2018) Small fires. Milkweed Editions

Goldman, J. (2018) ‘I grow more & more poetic’: Virginia Woolf and Prose Poetry. Palgrave

Collins, S. (2018) Erasing the signs of labour under the signs of happiness: ‘joy’ and ‘fidelity’ as bromides in literary translation. Poetry Review, 108, pp. 46-54.

Herd, C. (2018) 'Charleston Present Tense', queer Bloomsbury, queer poetics and creative-critical research. Clemson University Press

Goldman, J. (2018) Bloomsbury and war: case study: Bloomsbury's pacifist aesthetics: Woolf, Keynes, Rodker. Bloomsbury Academic

Reeder, E. K. (2018) Microbursts. Lune, 01, pp. 30.

(2018) Orlando: a Biography.

Goldman, J. (2018) Queer Woolf: two poems and a preamble. Clemson University Press

Maguire, M. F. (2018) Tango Lessons. Mariner Books

Strachan, Z., Scrutton, N. (2018) Static Flux (unique new live version)

Herd, C. (2018) ? + Fiat. Boiler House Press

(2018) Do Not Make The.

Goldman, J. (2018) Ecce animot. Cambridge University Press

Goldman, J. (2018) Mothering mothering Sunday: my mother's Mother's Day mothered me. Dundee University Review of the Arts, pp. 6 Apr.

Goldman, J. (2018) Everything SOLID. Donut Press

Berman, J., Goldman, J., Sellers, S., Randall, B., Detloff, M. (2018) Editing Woolf. Clemson University Press

Goldman, J. (2018) Flying Colin Herd. Hix Eros: Poetry Review, 8, pp. 93-94.

Goldman, J. (2018) Lila Matsumoto. Hix Eros: Poetry Review, 8, pp. 94-95.

Collins, S. (2018) Who Is Mary Sue? Faber & Faber

Goldman, J. (2018) ‘The Queen had come’: orgasm and arrival. Edinburgh University Press

Herd, C. (2018) John Ashbery's Commotion. PN Review, 44, pp. 67.

(2018) Night and Day.

Herd, C. (2018) Swamp Kiss. Red Ceilings Press

Welsh, L. (2018) A funeral of one’s own. Textual Practice, 32, pp. 1695-1700. (doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1533176)

Strachan, Z. (2018) A light and heartless hand. Textual Practice, 32, pp. 1689-2693. (doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1533175)

Welsh, L. (2018) Festival.

Welsh, L. (2018) King Keich.

Welsh, L. (2018) March Women March.

Goldman, J. (2018) My mother in winter. ZARF,

Riach, A. (2018) Of foreigners and friends: music, art and militarism. Cambridge Scholars

Herd, C. (2018) Short answer: yes; long answer. Gilded Dirt, 3, pp. 52-52.

Welsh, L. (2018) Whistling in Goblin Market.

Goldman, J. (2018) severed. Adjacent Pineapple, 4,

2017

Strachan, Z., Scrutton, N. (2017) Static Flux.

Strachan, Z., Welsh, L. (2017) 'Letter from Monkswood' Hayward Publishing

Goldman, J. (2017) INFOPO (GONDOLA GONDOLA: WORDS ON WORDS) RAUM, 1,

Strachan, Z. (2017) Introduction to Memento Mori by Muriel Spark. Polygon

Riach, A. (2017) Before MacDiarmid changed Scottish literature, there was the Kailyard. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Uncovering the morning star. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) The conflict between Scottish poets in the 1930s. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) Exploring MacDiarmid's Legacy. Part Two. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) The Revolutionary: Reconsidering the work of Hugh MacDiarmid. National, 2017,

Reeder, E. (2017) What a thirst it was: longing, excess and the genre-bending essay. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 10, pp. 27-47. (doi: 10.1386/jwcp.10.1.27_1)

Herd, C. (2017) My favourite sister's uncle. MAP, 40,

Riach, A., Moffat, A. (2017) Alan Riach and Sandy Moffat: The art of the human condition. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) Celebrating the dignity of diversity and Scotland's links with South Asia. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) 'To think we have lived to see cultural writing in a Scottish newspaper again' - new book of essays from The National. National, 2017,

Strachan, Z. (2017) Who'd be a man? Scottish Review of Books, 12,

Riach, A. (2017) Scotland Emergent IV: From tales of Merlin and Arthur to the Agricola of Tacitus. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) Scotland Emergent Part III: The Dream of the Rood to the Norse Sagas. National, 2017,

Reeder, E. (2017) For Now / Six Propositions.

Riach, A. (2017) Scotland Emergent, the story of Scotland's literature, part II: Birth of the Democratic Intellect. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) Scotland Emergent: The story of Scotland's literature, part one: from early times to Columba. National, 2017,

Welsh, L. (2017) No Dominion. John Murray

Riach, A. (2017) Two of the great Scottish novelists: Muriel Spark and Robin Jenkins. National, 2017,

Moffat, S., Riach, A. (2017) The Buchenwald Memorandum. National, 2017,

Moffat, S., Riach, A. (2017) The lost art of Robert Noble. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) Hugh MacDiarmid and the meaning of independence: a post-election special. National, 2017,

Goldman, J. (2017) ‘Her—it—age!’: Virginia Woolf and syllabic intervention— or, ‘Heritage is a Kim Novak word’ Clemson University Press

Riach, A. (2017) David Lyndsay - the man who gave ordinary Scots a voice. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) Passion and Ordered Energy: Alan Riach evaluates Gavin Douglas's effect on the Scots language. National, 2017,

(2017) Home Ground: New Writing Inspired by the Homeless World Cup in Glasgow.

Riach, A. (2017) Robin Jenkins: the short stories. Brill | Rodopi

Riach, A. (2017) Enlightened Scotland: How the Age of Reason made an impact on the country's thinkers. National, 2017,

Strachan, Z. (2017) Tonight, for the first time.

melville, n.-e. (2017) DOLE. IR11 Publications

Riach, A. (2017) Odd fellows: Alan Riach examines the colourful work of William Lithgow and Thomas Urquhart. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) Alan Riach: On film & film poetry. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) Earthly and unearthly powers collide: Ballads of poetry and song. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) Alan Riach examines neglected poets in a time of political transition. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) Mysterious voices and lasting truths: Alan Riach takes a literary tour of the Borders. National, 2017,

Strachan, Z. (2017) Tiny jubilations: using photography in fiction. C21 Literature, 5, (doi: 10.16995/c21.25)

Riach, A. (2017) Sport and God are Scotland's obsessions - why doesn't our literature reflect this? National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) Scottish Gothic poetry. Edinburgh University Press

Riach, A. (2017) The Winter Book. Luath Press

Riach, A., Moffat, A. (2017) In praise of John Berger Part Two: Scratching beneath the surface of art’s canvas. National, 2017,

Riach, A., Moffat, A. (2017) John Berger: A dissenter who inspired fresh ideas. National, 2017,

Riach, A., Moffat, A. (2017) At one with being at odds with nature: Alan Riach and Alexander Moffat on the work of Joan Eardley: Part two. National, 2017,

Riach, A., Moffat, A. (2017) Joan Eardley and the art of contrast. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) Alan Warner: timeless realities. Edinburgh University Press

Riach, A. (2017) Sir Walter Scott – Bringing out the best in us... National, 2017,

melville, n.-e. (2017) ABBODIES. Sad Press

Riach, A. (2017) Masterly studies of divided loyalties: Approaching Sir Walter Scott - Part Two. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) Approaching Walter Scott Part 1: A meeting of minds between Robert Burns and a literary great in the making. National, 2017,

Riach, A. (2017) Home and away: Alan Riach continues his examination of how travel writing influenced Scottish literature. National, 2017,

Welsh, L. (2017) A Funeral of One’s Own.

Riach, A., Moffat, A., Purser, J., McDiarmid, H. (2017) Arts and the Nation: a Critical Re-examination of Scottish Literature, Painting, Music and Culture. Luath Press

Herd, C. (2017) Click and Collect. Boilerhouse Press (UEA Publishing)

Welsh, L. (2017) Come friendly bombs. Historic Environment Scotland

Reeder, E., Mavor, C., Testard, J., Porter, M., Kreider, K. (2017) Digressions: On Essaying in the U.K. Essay Press

Goldman, J. (2017) Horsing and Reading Jacob’s Room with David Bradshaw. Virginia Woolf Bulletin, 54, pp. 29-40.

Goldman, J. (2017) In here bent like call of haggis. Front Horse, 1,

Welsh, L. (2017) More Lasting than Love.

Goldman, J. (2017) Queer Bloomsbury. Woolf Studies Annual, 23, pp. 161-170.

Welsh, L., Strachan, Z. (2017) Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness.

Collins, S. (2017) Small White Monkeys: On Self-Expression, Self-Help and Shame. Book Works

Goldman, J. (2017) Stafain Island poem number one. Adjacent Pineapple, 1,

Herd, C. (2017) Syncope and Giallo in Kevin Killian's argento series. Contemporary Practice

(2017) The Hunterian Museum Poems: A History of the World in Objects and Poems.

Goldman, J. (2017) ‘Time Passes’ between ‘Le Temps Passe’ and ‘Time Passes’: translation, secondary rendering, and textual genesis. Morlacchi Editore

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