English: Writing Practise and Study

• Reference:GB 254 RU 917
• Dates of Creation:2006-2015
• Name of Creator:
  Professor Kirsty Gunn
  Dr Jim Stewart
• Physical Description:
  13 Boxes

• Scope and Content

  Writing Practise and Study, 9 years of creative teaching at the University of Dundee with Professor Kirsty Gunn and Jim Stuart. Contains assessment details, student draft and submission of written pieces, correspondence, marking and 2014-15 pamphlets providing a brief overview of the course. /1 2006-2007 /2 2007 /3 2007-2008 /4 Coursework: 2008-2009 /5 Mlit: 2008-2009 /6 2008-2009 /7 2009-2010 /8 2009-2010 /9 Prospective Yr.3 CW Candidates: 2010-2011 /10 2011 /11 Creative Writing submission: 2011- 2012 /12 Mlit: 2011-2013 /13 Mlit: 2013-2014 /14 2014-2015 /15 2015-2016

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Kirsty Gunn, BA (Hons), M.Phil., was born in New Zealand and educated at Victoria University and Oxford. The author of six novels to date: Rain, The Keepsake, Featherstone, The Boy and the Sea, The Big Music and Caroline's Bikini, Kirsty has also published collections of extended essays and short stories about identity and Katherine Mansfield.
  She is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes including the Scottish Arts Council Bursary for Literature, the New York Times Notable Book award, Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year. The Big Music was shortlisted for the James Tait Black and Impac Awards and was a Guardian Book of the Year and winner of the New Zealand Book of the Year .
  Kirsty previously taught Creative Writing at Oxford University and at a number of writing seminars and schools and established the Writing Practice and Study programme at the University of Dundee.
  Based in London and Scotland, Kirsty is married and has two daughters
  For more information see http://www.kirsty-gunn.com/
  Source: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/kirsty-gunn

  James Clark Quinn Stewart was born in Dundee, where he and his sister was brought up by his mother. He attended Harris Academy, leaving school aged 15 then worked at various jobs in Brechin to where the family had moved.
  Aged 21, he moved to Arbroath and worked as a proofreader for a local paper, progressing to news reporter. He was sacked after refusing to doorstep a family caught up in a divorce scandal.
  Moving back to Dundee, Jim went to college to qualify for entrance to university. He graduated in 1984 from the University of Dundee in English Literature, then gained his Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 1990. From 1987 to his death, Jim was employed at UoD, initially on teaching and research contracts, becoming a permanent staff member after his success with the Mlitt in Writing Practice & Study module.
  Jim had always written poetry, but work on what became the only publication of his own body of poems 'This' coincided with his terminal illness. Jim Stewart died of cancer 24 July 2016
  (Source: 'About Jim Stewart' by Jane Goldman in 'This', 2018)

• Arrangement

  Usually chronological within series.

• Access Information

  Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act (2018), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, 2018) and any other relevant legislation or restrictions. Clinical information is closed for 100 years.

• Acquisition Information

  Kirsty Gunn

• Note

  Kirsty Gunn, BA (Hons), M.Phil., was born in New Zealand and educated at Victoria University and Oxford. The author of six novels to date: Rain, The Keepsake, Featherstone, The Boy and the Sea, The Big Music and Caroline's Bikini, Kirsty has also published collections of extended essays and short stories about identity and Katherine Mansfield.
  She is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes including the Scottish Arts Council Bursary for Literature, the New York Times Notable Book award, Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year. The Big Music was shortlisted for the James Tait Black and Impac Awards and was a Guardian Book of the Year and winner of the New Zealand Book of the Year .
  Kirsty previously taught Creative Writing at Oxford University and at a number of writing seminars and schools and established the Writing Practice and Study programme at the University of Dundee.
  Based in London and Scotland, Kirsty is married and has two daughters
  For more information see http://www.kirsty-gunn.com/
  Source: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/kirsty-gunn

  James Clark Quinn Stewart was born in Dundee, where he and his sister was brought up by his mother. He attended Harris Academy, leaving school aged 15 then worked at various jobs in Brechin to where the family had moved.
  Aged 21, he moved to Arbroath and worked as a proofreader for a local paper, progressing to news reporter. He was sacked after refusing to doorstep a family caught up in a divorce scandal.
  Moving back to Dundee, Jim went to college to qualify for entrance to university. He graduated in 1984 from the University of Dundee in English Literature, then gained his Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 1990. From 1987 to his death, Jim was employed at UoD, initially on teaching and research contracts, becoming a permanent staff member after his success with the Mlitt in Writing Practice & Study module.
  Jim had always written poetry, but work on what became the only publication of his own body of poems 'This' coincided with his terminal illness. Jim Stewart died of cancer 24 July 2016
  (Source: 'About Jim Stewart' by Jane Goldman in 'This', 2018)

• Archivist's Note

  Description compiled by Amelia Graham, Volunteer. Updated by SK, 26/09/2016

• Conditions Governing Use

  Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges may be made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply; please check with the Duty Archivist.

• Appraisal Information

  Nothing destroyed

• Custodial History

  Kept in the office of Professor Kirsty Gunn.

• Accruals

  Expected

• Additional Information

  Published

  Catalogued

  RU 917

• Subjects

  Humanities