Rachel Genn, Lecturer in Creative Writing, has been successful in applying for an Arts Council DYCP (Developing Your Creative Practice) award.
Developing your Creative Practice is a new development fund designed to support independent creative practitioners to ensure excellence is thriving in the arts and culture sector. This fund will create more pathways for individuals from a range of creative practices and backgrounds. Further details about the scheme can be found here.
Rachel Genn joined the Manchester Writing School as an Associate Lecturer (Fiction) in 2011 and was appointed Lecturer in Creative Writing (Fiction and Script) in the Department of English in September 2016.
Rachel is a doctor of neuroscience by training and, before beginning to write fiction seriously in 2005, worked at Kings College London, The Maudsley, and was a Royal Society Fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She completed the Sheffield Hallam Creative Writing MA in 2006 and is now a novelist and scriptwriter.
Monday, 29th April 2019