Contact Details

Telephone: +44 (0) 1243 816296
Email: s.norgate@chi.ac.uk

I am a senior lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. My other role is as co-ordinator of our very successful MA in Creative Writing (see Postgraduate pages and student successes). Please contact me if you wish to apply for the MA or would like a telephone chat about your portfolio entry.

My writing and teaching interests are: poetry, contemporary and past, translating poetry, contemporary stage drama, radio drama and creative writing.  In 2001, I received an Arts Council England writer’s award.

My writing credits include poetry, radio plays and plays produced on the London and Edinburgh Fringe.

Poetry and Voice, a creative and critical conference

Location: University of Chichester, West Sussex, UK Dates: June 25th-June 27th 2010
Deadline for proposals: 10th March 2010. Read more>>

Plays broadcast on Radio 4

The Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in London (Five part dramatisation of autobiographies by Elizabeth L. Banks, Women’s Hour serial)

Clive – 45 minute afternoon play

The Greatest Gift – 60 minute afternoon play (received a Radio Times Drama Award)

Poetry

Hidden River, pictured left (Bloodaxe Books, 2008) shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection prize 2008.

See Guardian review: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/may/17/poetry

Oxford Poets 2000 (Carcanet, eds. Constantine, D, Lee, H. and O’Donoghue, B.)

Fireclay (Smith Doorstop 1998) prize winning pamphlet (Poetry Business competition)

Poems have appeared in anthologies and magazines such as The Poetry Cure, Poetry London, Reactions, Magma, MsLexia, The North, Forward Poems of the Decade. Some poetry translations of Lucretius have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation. A translation from Vergil’s Aeneid was highly commended in the Times/Stephen Spender Poetry in Translation competition.  Commissioned poems include ‘Green Lane’ (postcard poem Arts Council/Library Service), riddles and a children’s story based on Anglo-Saxon artefacts (Alfred the Great, Warfare, Wealth and Wisdom, Winchester Exhibition Centre.)

Research Supervision

I  have supervised two creative/critical doctoral studies through to completion. Mara Giemza wrote a themed collection of poetry, ‘The Box of Chalks’, which explored the Polish experience of the second world war. She also wrote a commentary on the process of her research and writing. Sue Evans wrote a thesis entitled ‘Women Playwrights and Alternative Realities’ and an accompanying experimental play and commentary.

Ph.D  Examining

Internal examiner for Kathy Dilkes’ thesis on Carol Shields, entitled ‘Permission to Speak’.

External examiner in forthcoming viva: a creative/critical poetry thesis (Newcastle University).

I am interested in collaborating with other universities as supervisor or examiner of the creative/critical Ph.D  in relation to poetry, stage or radio drama. I welcome enquiries from prospective Ph.D students in this area.

I have supervised many creative MA dissertations in all the genres. Many of our MA students go on to publish, win prizes and work in a related area.