My research in creative writing (research as practice) has been in short fiction and short stories, as well as linked short story collections, novels in stories and composite novels. I'm also interested in writing and disability, with a focus on carers and caring, as well as speculative fiction, especially work that plays with genre boundaries and how this can be used to write about climate breakdown. This is on hold until I've finished my current research in memoir and autofiction.
I am interested in supervising projects in short stories, linked short story collections, 'novels in stories' and 'in between' forms. I am interested in writing that has a political focus, as well as novels that merge genre and literary fiction, as well as writing which explores issues of disability and caring. My other area of interest is speculative fiction, especially work that attempts to engage with current science and issues of climate change, as well as writing about religious trauma, high control groups and interesting ways of writing about personal experience.
I teach the BA modules on the short story, including Crew 204: Short Story and Crew 308: Advanced Short Story, as well as the MA module: The Contemporary Short Story, expanding the form.
Since 2005 I have worked as an associate lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, The University of Bolton and Edge Hill University. I have also facilitated creative writing workshops around Manchester and the North West on a freelance basis. My most recent workshop was with English PEN and Help for Heroes at Tedworth House recovery centre.
Over the past few years I have published my short stories widely in the UK. My sequence of short stories was published by Comma Press in 2006, and my full length collection of short stories, The War Tour, was published in 2011.
I have given numerous readings at literature festivals and events over the past few years, and continue to do so.
When I Get Home: A Collection of Short Stories and Accompanying Critical Commentary
I'm writing a fragmented memoir, which explores my experiences of growing up as a Jehovah's Witness and my relationship with my mother, generational trauma, as well as religious and purity trauma. Rather than writing from a position of authority on one's life, I'm trying to use the present tense to explore moments of lived experience, as well as diaries and journals. I'm taking a dive into writing monologues, and turn this writing into a one woman show.
Connected to this, my impact work is on writing for wellbeing, and I'm developing a series of workshops for survivors of religious trauma on how to use writing in their lives to enhance their wellbeing.
www.zoelambert.org
http://www.commapress.co.uk/?section=books&page=TheWarTour
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BA English Hons, English, First Class, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2000.
MA Creative Writing Unversity of East Anglia, 2002.
PhD Creative Writing, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2010.
