Prof Tony Williams

Professor

Department: Humanities

Tony was born and brought up in Derbyshire, and studied philosophy at Cambridge and creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University. He writes poetry and prose fiction. His first collection of poems, The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street (Salt, 2009), was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the Portico Prize for Literature and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. The sonnet sequence All the Rooms of Uncle's Head (Nine Arches Press, 2011) was the Poetry Book Society's Pamphlet Choice for Winter 2011. His flash fiction collection All the Bananas I've Never Eaten (Salt, 2012) won Best Short Story Collection in the 2013 Saboteur Awards. Tony's latest novel, Nutcase, was published by Salt in 2017. He previously taught at Sheffield Hallam University, the Open University and the University of Salford among others, and worked as a freelance graphic designer for some years.

Campus Address

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Key Publications

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Cole The Magnificent, Williams, T. 15 Aug 2023
Grettir in Sheffield: Rewriting Icelandic saga as a contemporary novel, Williams, T. Oct 2019, In: TEXT
Hawthorn City, Williams, T. 15 Nov 2019
In Conversation: Capturing Reflection Between Poetry and Filmmaking Practice, Williams, T., Fentiman, A. Apr 2019, In: TEXT
On reflection: The role, mode and medium of the reflective component in practice as research, Green, M., Williams, T. 30 Apr 2018, In: TEXT
Nutcase, Williams, T. 15 Sep 2017
Love songs of carbon, Williams, T. Mar 2016, In: English
Flash fiction, Williams, T. 1 Apr 2014, The Handbook of Creative Writing (2nd edition), Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press
The Midlands, Williams, T. 2014
Iterations: Days, walks, episodes, chapters, scenes, Williams, T. Oct 2013, In: TEXT

PGR Supervision

Susannah Ronnie Mapping a Mutiny: Engaging with documents relating to Henry Hudson’s final voyage to produce a poetry of fragmentation Start Date: 01/10/2017 End Date: 11/03/2022
Mark Holmes Performing Elvis: A Creative and Critical Exploration of American Post-War Popular Culture and Working-Class Masculinities in the North East of England Start Date: 23/02/2022
Sofie Schrey ‘Bio-Graphic’: A Graphic Novel Documentary of the Kielderhead Wildwood Restoration Project Start Date: 01/10/2021
Joseph Walton Moneykins: Using Speculative Fiction to Re-Imagine Money Start Date: 08/10/2013 End Date: 03/01/2017
Rowan Bowman On Barley Hill; Method-Writing and Spectral Landscapes in the Supernatural Gothic Horror Novel Start Date: 02/10/2012 End Date: 03/01/2017
Catherine Ayres ‘Small Finds: using poetry as an archaeological process to link the lived experience of modern women with that of women living in the forts on Hadrian’s Wall at the time of Roman occupation.’ Start Date: 01/10/2017 End Date: 10/05/2023
Ruth Stacey Feel Everything! Exploring the use of Symbolist poetics to write historical fiction through The Imagined Memoirs of Pamela Colman Smith Start Date: 01/10/2017
Nick Dodds Reframing the Graphic Memoir: How can the comic artist negotiate modality and fidelity in the depiction of personal and historical narratives? Start Date: 01/10/2016
Lisa Matthews The hauled-up notebooks: how prose poem sequences can help transform life experience into writing practice. Start Date: 20/02/2018
Daniel Hardisty Playing the Surreal: A Creative Writing Start Date: 20/01/2015

Qualifications

Education PGCert January 10 2011
English PhD September 01 2003
Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2011

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