Staff
Dr David Manderson
Programe Leader, BA Creative Industries Practice
Lecturer in Creative Writing & Screenwriting
david.manderson@uws.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 141 886 462
Fax: +44 (0) 141 886 371
Room: J142, Ayr Campus
Research
David holds qualifications from the Universities of St Andrews (MA English Language & Literature) and Glasgow (MLitt in Creative Writing), and in 2006 was awarded a PhD by the University of Strathclyde – the first doctorate gained in Scotland for a completed full-length novel.
He has published widely in literary magazines, American and Scottish anthologies, newspapers, journals and peer-referenced websites, and has won prizes at literary festivals and competitions. He gained a Scottish Arts Council New Writers’ Bursary in 2001. He has also performed his work in New York, London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Glasgow, appearing on stage with leading writers such as Louise Welsh, Tom Leonard and Roddy Doyle.
David joined the lecturing staff of the University of the West of Scotland in November 2007. His new Modules in Creative Writing are integrated within the Film Making and Screenwriting programme and are designed to create a bank of ideas for each student, which can then be taken to any other writing form or another creative medium. He also co-ordinates Modules in Scriptwriting and Writing Short Films, which integrate across several programmes. He is Course Leader for the part-time BA degree in Creative Industries Practice.
Research Interests
Creative writing, from the self to art in creative practice, Scottish literature/Scottish film, early nineteenth Scottish writing and the Blackwood’s group, the Scottish Gothic, Scotland in the First World War, feminist and post-feminist writing, the noir thriller, crime fiction
PhD
Thesis: ‘Lost Bodies: An Original Novel with a Critical Introduction: Lost Bodies/Social Critique.’
Recent Readings / Performances
Reading from novel, The Lonely Page Conference, Belfast, with Roddy Doyle
‘Three Scottish Writers’, with Nick E Melville and Shug Hanlan, Edinburgh, 2003
‘Planehopping’, readings by new Scottish writers, with Gerry Stewart, Manhattan Central Library, New York, 2004
‘Last Monday at Rio’, readings by new writers, Café Rio, Glasgow, 2007
‘New Writers In Session’, a judged performance, with Alan Taylor of The Glasgow Herald, Edinburgh Book Festival, 2007
I host and run the “Reading Allowed” Tchai Ovna readings, evenings of words and music at the Tchai Ovna teahouse in Glasgow’s West End, 2003-2009. Writers who have appeared at this event include Catherine Czerkawska, Sheila Templeton, Rodge Glass, Alan MacGillivray, Alan Riach, Laura Marney, Louise Welsh, Zoe Strachan, Graham Fulton, Brian Whittingham, Nick Melville, Jim Ferguson, Rodney Relax and Eunice Buchanan."
Editorial
Founder and Co-ordinator, Reel To Real Short Film Festival, Glasgow Film Theatre, 1991-9
Founding editor, Nerve Magazine, a magazine of new Scottish writing, 1998-2000
Editor, Write Times, collection of new Scottish writing from schools and colleges, 2007.
Recent Publications
David Manderson, Scotnote: Scotland on Screen: Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero, Association of Scottish Literary Studies
‘Hogg’s “Confessions of a Justified Sinner”: commentary by Douglas Gifford’ (CD recording), review in Scotlit, Association of Scottish Literary Studies, forthcoming
‘Stevenson’s “Thrawn Janet” and “Markheim”: commentary by Ian Campbell’ (CD recording), review in Scotlit, Association of Scottish Literary Studies, forthcoming
‘Rob Roy: The Movie’, Scotnotes, critical textbook, Association of Scottish Literary Studies, forthcoming
‘James Hogg’, Wikipedia entry, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hogg, 2008
‘The Other’ short story in Wordjig: New Writing from Scotland, Hanging Loose Press: New York, 2006
‘Lost Bodies’ opening chapter in Allan Guthrie’s Noir Originals, website of noir and hardboiled fiction, 2006
‘Inkerman’, short story in Ecloga: Strathclyde University, 2005
‘Five Letters from a Western Empire: the isms of Alasdair Gray’, essay in Chapman, Edinburgh, 2004
‘Scuttle’, novel extract in Spoke: New Scottish Voices, CD Recording, bletherink: Glasgow, 2003 ‘Loos: Scotland’s Forgotten Battle’, article in Confluence, Glasgow University, 2003
Conference Presentations
'Wattie goes to Hollywood: Romanticism in Scottish Film' Walter Scott, the Trossachs and Tourism University of Stirling Stirling, Scotland, June 2010.
2009, Organizing Committee, Association of Scottish Literature, Annual Schools Conference, Glasgow, 100, teachers, lecturers and educationalists
2009.7, David Manderson, Blane Savage & David Scott, Ayr, Creativity and Well- Being Conference, Creative Practice Trans States
‘The Beginnings of Solitude’, forthcoming paper presented at The Lonely Page conference, Queens University Belfast, March 2009
‘Creative Crossroads’, paper presented at The Creative Paradox conference, University of Bedfordshire, May 2008
‘The Creative Crucible’, paper presented to the University of the West of Scotland Research Group, March 2008
‘Creative Writing in the Academy’, presentation at Strathclyde University, with Professors Philip Hobsbaum and Willy Maley, Strathclyde University, 2001
Awards
New Writers’ Bursary, a grant awarded to encourage the development of a novel, Scottish Arts Council, 2001
Yeovil Literary Festival, special commendation for novel ‘Lost Bodies’
Cinnamon Novel Award, commendation for ‘Lost Bodies’
Consulting/Examining
External Examiner for creative writing MPhil, Finding Takri by Palo Stickland, Strathclyde University, 2008
Executive Member of The Creative Loop, Scottish Skillset Academy, 2006-7
Consultant, Scottish Qualifications Authority, 2002 Member of SQA Assessment Groups, Qualification Design Teams and Examination Panels 2001-2006
Teaching Responsibilities
- First Year Modules Creative Writing 1 & 2
- Second Year Module Introduction to Scriptwriting
- Third Year Modules Creative Fiction 1 & 2
- Member of the Screenwriting Team on Modules such as Writing the Short Film, Screen Adaptation, Team Writing for Television and The Creative Project
- Course Leader: BA Creative Industries
- Practice PhD supervision