Editor-in-chief
Dr Sarah Dobbs
University of Sunderland
Welcome to Prosegression. We want to innovate and celebrate fiction. Launch: 09 09 17
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Sarah is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Sunderland. Her novel, Killing Daniel, was published in 2012 by Unthank Books and she is editor of English Language, Literature and Creative Writing: A Practical Guide for Students. Recent work has been published in The End and Unthology 9. She is at work on a new novel and a novella in flash.
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@sarahjanedobbs
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Peer Reviewers:
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David Gaffney
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David Gaffney lives in Manchester. He is the author of the novel Never Never (2008) plus the flash fiction and short story collections Sawn-Off Tales (2006), Aromabingo (2007), The Half-Life of Songs (2010) and More Sawn-Off Tales (2013) the novel, All The Places I've Ever Lived (2017) and the graphic novel The Three Rooms In Valerie's Head (2018) The Guardian said: ‘One hundred and fifty words by Gaffney are more worthwhile than novels by a good many others.’ See davidgaffney.org for more.
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Dr Elizabeth Harris
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Elizabeth is a researcher and writing tutor living in Manchester. Her interests include modernist poetry, contemporary fiction and ecocritical theory. Her first book, a study of the role of nature in modernist poetry, will be published by Routledge in November 2017.
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Tania Hershman
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Tania Hershman's debut poetry collection, Terms & Conditions, will be published by Nine Arches Press in July 2017 and her third short story collection, Some Of Us Glow More Than Others, by Unthank Books in May. Tania is currently completing a PhD in creative writing, taking inspiration from particle physics to create a hybrid work of prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction." She is also the author of a poetry chapbook, and two short story collections, and co-author of Writing Short Stories: A Writers' & Artists' Companion (Bloomsbury, 2014). Tania is curator of ShortStops (www.shortstops.info), celebrating short story activity across the UK & Ireland. www.taniahershman.com
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Iain Rowan
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Iain Rowan lives in Sunderland, and is a novelist, short story author, and poet. His novel One of Us was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger. Iain is creative director for the Sunderland Festival of Literature and Creative Writing, and founded and runs Sunderland’s Holmeside Writers group. NY Times Best Selling author and three times World Fantasy Award winner Jeff Vandermeer said: ‘You owe it to yourself to discover Rowan's fiction if you haven't already had the pleasure.’ Visit www.iainrowan.com for more information.
