Mrs Nicola Valentine

Contact

• workRoom C84 Dearing Building
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 9514518
• fax0115 846 6600
• nicola.valentine@nottingham.ac.uk
• www.nicolamonaghan.co.uk

Biography

Nicola Valentine is the author of literary novels (as Nicola Monaghan) and supernatural thrillers/horror (as Niki Valentine). She is course leader for the BA Creative and Professional Writing at Nottingham University, and was Fellow of the National Academy of Writing from 2006 to 2009. Her short stories and articles have been published widely, and her work has appeared in Granta, the Independent, the Guardian, Marie Claire and the Telegraph. She is a regular contributor to local radio broadcasting and has also appeared on Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Radio 4's Open Word, Radio 3's The Verb, East Midlands Today, Bookzone TV and the Alan Titchmarsh pilot show. She won a Betty Trask Award, The Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and The Waverton Good Read for her first novel The Killing Jar.

Expertise Summary

Writing of fiction, novels and short stories, in a number of genres. Issues around creative writing, professional training for writers, writers in schools and creativity.

Teaching Summary

Creative writing specialist with a particular interest in fiction and script. Extensive experience of the teaching on professionally focused courses.

Research Summary

At the beginning of a research career with a solid plan for scholarly and practitioner focused articles. Will be presenting 'Professionalising Writers', a workshop about vocationally focused courses… read more

Selected Publications

• VALENTINE, N, 2012. Possessed Sphere. (In Press.)
• VALENTINE, N, 2011. The haunted London : Sphere.
• MONAGHAN, N, 2007. The killing jar London : Vintage.
• MONAGHAN, N, 2008. Starfishing Chatto and Windus.

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Current Research

At the beginning of a research career with a solid plan for scholarly and practitioner focused articles. Will be presenting 'Professionalising Writers', a workshop about vocationally focused courses for creative writers, at this November's NAWE conference and expect articles to come from this. Working on pieces 'Being Taught', about my experiences visiting students who are studying my novels, and 'Coming home to Write' about working as Writer in Residence at NUSA, a school around the corner from where I grew up.

Past Research

Published 'Becoming a Novelist' in 'Writing in Education' in 2004. see http://www.nawe.co.uk/DB/projects/becoming-a-novelist.html

Future Research

Interested in creativity, inception of ideas and writer's process. Regular blog writer on these subjects and intend to develop this into more solid research going forward. Some relevant blog posts are detailed below.

http://nicolamonaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/monique-roffey-on-process.html

http://nicolamonaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/creativity-versus-language.html

http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/creating-a-text-nicola-monaghan/

http://nicolamonaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/on-writing-novel-quickly.html

http://nicolamonaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/two-novels.html

http://nicolamonaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/structure-in-movies-and-inglourious.html

http://nicolamonaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/big-question.html

http://nicolamonaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/synecdoche-new-york.html

http://nicolamonaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/realism-in-films.html

http://nicolamonaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/writers-block.html

http://nicolamonaghan.blogspot.co.uk/2007/09/thousand-words-day.html

http://writingsurgery.blogspot.co.uk/

• VALENTINE, N, 2012. Possessed Sphere. (In Press.)
• VALENTINE, N, 2011. The haunted London : Sphere.
• MONAGHAN, N, ed., 2011. With You, About You, For You: An Anthology by the First Story Group at Nottingham University Samworth Academy
• MONAGHAN, N, 2010. Saturday Night and Tuesday Morning Granta. Available at: <http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Saturday-Night-and-Tuesday-Morning>
• MONAGHAN, N, 2008. Starfishing Chatto and Windus.
• MONAGHAN, N, 2008. Working with an Agent. In: TURNER, B, ed., The Writer's Handbook MacMillan.
• MONAGHAN, N, ed., 2008. Finding a Voice: New Writing from the students of the National Academy of Writing Imprimata.
• MONAGHAN, N, 2007. The killing jar London : Vintage.
• MONAGHAN, N, 2004. Becoming a Novelist Writing at University.