Dr Dr. Susannah Dawes

Biography

In addition to teaching SF and Creative Writing modules at the University, I am a part-time manuscript assessor for 'The Writers Company', a volunteer editor for 'Short Fiction Journal', and an on-line buddy for Napier Friends, assisting asylum seekers who reside at the barracks with English language skills. I am also involved in Colchester WriteNight. I have several writing credits to my name: short stories, flash fiction and poetry, which have appeared in Mslexia, The New Welsh Review, Writers Forum, and various on-line journals. I have been quite successful in competitions including being short-listed for the CWA Debut Dagger Award in 2013 and winning the 'Language Evolves' speculative writing competition in 2022. My novel 'The Mune' (part of my PhD thesis) is due to be published in February 2025. Conference papers: 'Metamorphosis - from Human to Host', Liverpool University CRSF conference, July 2023 'Communicating Gender in Science fiction', Liverpool University CRSF conference, 30 June-2 July 2022 'Cultural and Biological inheritance - reimagining the feminist Utopia', Liverpool University CRSF conference, 1-2 June 2021 'World Building as theft', EasterCon Academic track, 4 April 2021 Academic Publications: 'Communicating Gender: A Creative-Critical Approach to Pronouns in Speculative Fiction' is 'in press' for Foundation 147 (this spring 2024)

Qualifications

• PhD Creative Writing Essex University (2023)

• MA Creative Writing Lancaster University (2010)

• BA (Hons) Social Science Manchester Metropolitan University (1992)