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A Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Keele University, Ceri Morgan works on literary geographies, place-writing, geopoetics, walking studies and GeoHumanities.

Key publications include Mindscapes of Montreal (University of Wales Press, 2012), 'Walking Studies, The Eastern Townships, and William S. Messier's Dixie' (2016), and 'Sonic Spectres: Word Ghosts in Madeleine Thien's Dogs at the Perimeter and the Digital Map Project, 'Fictional Montreal/Montréal fictif' (2018). 'Sonic Spectres' deals in part with a digital map of literary Montreal which Morgan created with media artist, Philip Lichti (British Academy small research grant 2016-17). In June 2017, Morgan founded a walking-reading/walking-writing group called the Dawdlers. She is currently working on a project on walking and chronic pain called 'Stumbling in the City' with screendance artist, Anna Macdonald.

c.m.morgan@keele.ac.uk

Nick Bentley is Senior Lecturer in English literature at Keele University, UK. He is author of Contemporary British Fiction: A Reader's Guide to the Essential Criticism (Palgrave, 2018); Martin Amis (Liverpool UP, 2015); Contemporary British Fiction (Edinburgh UP, 2008); Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s (Peter Lang, 2007); editor of British Fiction of the 1990s (Routledge, 2005); and co-editor of The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2015), and Teenage Dreams: Youth Subcultures in Fiction, Film and Other Media (Palgrave, 2018) . He has also published journal articles and book chapters on a range of contemporary writers and topics including Monica Ali, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Sam Selvon, the city in postmodern fiction, fictional representations of youth subcultures, and working-class writing.

He is currently writing a monograph entitled Making a Scene: Youth Subcultures in Postwar and Contemporary Fiction (Palgrave).

Stephen Seabridge is Stoke-on-Trent's Poet Laureate (2018-2020). He is also enrolled on the PhD program at Keele University in Humanities and Social Sciences, specialising in poetry and creative writing. He teaches literature and writing methods of all kinds at Keele and beyond.

Sylvia Crawley is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Keele University, where she specialises in prose writing, particularly about people's interactions with place.

Before turning to writing, Crawley worked as a Museum Curator for 30 years, where her involvement with social history led to an interest in the tensions between rural and industrial landscapes. Her writing is currently taking her in the directions of the sea, offshore islands, and most of all, mud.

Daniel Skentelbery is an AHRC NWCDTP funded Cultural Studies student at Keele University. His research title is 'Transformations in Cosplay: Navigating the personal and social implications of how fans use costume play to traverse gendered and queer identities'.

Skentelbery is also a creative writer of poetry and screenplays. His style is typically crude and jovial: themes tend to centre around popular culture, parody, queer identities, gender and society.

Clare trained at Trinity-Laban in Dance Theatre and also holds an MA in Community & Participatory Arts. As an independent dance artist Clare created, delivered & performed dance in a wide range of community settings and with people of all ages and experience levels.

Clare co-founded Restoke in 2009. As well as choreographing & directing our shows Clare leads the participatory aspects of the work and travels around the UK sharing our learning.

www.restoke.org.uk

Paul has a background in music production, composition and community music delivery, working with institutions including Town Hall/Symphony Hall Birmingham and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Paul composes music for film, animation, theatre and dance as well as being inventor of interactive musical instrument Khoros.

Paul co-founded Restoke in 2009. As well as composing for an directing our shows Paul's expertise are in technical production & finances!

www.restoke.org.uk