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Barney Norris

Departmental Lecturer in Creative Writing

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Barney Norris’s work has received awards from the International Theatre Institute, the Critics’ Circle, the Evening Standard, the Society of Authors, the South Bank Sky Arts Times Breakthrough Awards and the Royal Society of Literature, among others, and been translated into eleven languages. His plays include Visitors, Eventide, Nightfall, The Wellspring, The Band Back Together, Going Out Out and adaptations of Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and Second Best by David Foenkinos. He is also the author of five novels, including Undercurrent, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain and the forthcoming Say That You’ll See Me Again.

Barney brings the perspective of a practitioner to his teaching on the MSt in Creative Writing, with a practical, hands-on focus to workshop and seminar sessions. He is interested in exploring the fundamentals of creative projects and the development of coherent, long-term writerly identities. He has also developed a range of seminars on career development in the arts, and works to bring industry professionals into the programme to share their expertise.

Barney is presently developing a range of creative projects for fiction, stage and screen exploring the idea of home that centre principles of internationalism and collaboration. He is particularly interested in the theatre of Peter Gill and Athol Fugard, having worked closely with both during their lifetimes, and is developing a project on regionalism in the theatre in response to those experiences.

Fiction

  • Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain (2016)
  • Turning For Home (2018)
  • The Vanishing Hours (2019)
  • Undercurrent (2022)
  • Say That You’ll See Me Again (forthcoming)

Theatre

  • Visitors (2014)
  • Eventide (2015)
  • Nightfall (2018)
  • The Remains of the Day (2019)
  • The Wellspring (2022)
  • The Band Back Together (2024)
  • Going Out Out (2025)
  • The Last Ship (2026)

Non-Fiction

  • To Bodies Gone: The Theatre of Peter Gill (2014)
  • The Wellspring: Conversations with David Owen Norris (2018)

UNDERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES

MSt in Creative Writing

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