Haunted Writing

Helen Pleasance is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature at York St. John University, UK. Her research interests include Contemporary Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction in all its forms, especially memoir, biography and true crime. She has published on the memoir form and narrative constructions of the Moors murders, as well as writing fiction and creative nonfiction. She is currently researching how domestic needlecraft shaped women’s lives in the twentieth century.Robert Edgar is Professor of Writing and Popular Culture in the York Centre for Writing based in the School of Humanities at York St John University, UK. He has published on Screenwriting (2009), Directing Fiction (2009), The Language of Film (Bloomsbury, 2010 and 2015), The Music Documentary (2013), The Arena Concert (Bloomsbury, 2015), Music, Memory and Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2019), Adaptation for Scriptwriters (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Venue Stories (2023). He is co-editing the forthcoming Bloomsbury publication, Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s Fiction.

• ForewordIntroduction – by the editorsSection One: Haunting Documents1. “His Melancholy Decease”: the haunted archive and its fictional afterlives in a meandering history of Peel Park, Salford. Ursula Hurley, University of Salford.2. Echoing through the Archive: Poetry as Archival Intervention. Chloe Hanks, York St John University3. Co-authoring with forgotten voices: remix-writing as a methodology to reimagine lost lives. Clare Harvey, Coventry University.4. The Norgesian Mind Manifold Memories Await Us. Kirsten Norrie, Independent Writer.Section Two: Haunting Places5. At the Threshold: the uncanny meeting point of family history and the short story. Helen Pleasance York St John University.6. Haunting Lives: Spectres in the Shadows. Emma Kirby, Cardiff University.7. Between the Chain Links: Geopoetic Expression as Crossing-Point. R.L. Francis, University of Wolverhampton.8. Iter II. Anthony Cartwright University of the West of England.Section Three: Haunting Others9. My Vanishing Twin and The Mirrored Reality that Sings: Ghosts of Those Who Never Came to Be. Anayis N. Der Hakopian, Independent Writer.10. The Pretenders: Phantoms and Intergenerational Trauma. Francesca Liauw, Independent Writer.11. Bringing the Dead Back to Life: the challenges of authenticity in creative nonfiction Toby Norways, University of Bedfordshire.12. Method Writing: a performative approach to blend fiction and nonfiction in a roman-à-clef. Keren Poliah, University of Salford.Section Four: Haunting Selves13. The Double as Other: The Ethics of Autofictional Self-Encounters. Natasha Bell, Goldsmiths University.14. Haunted Bodies in Breast Cancer Autopathography: Blue Breast. Michelle Ryan, Université d’Angers.15. Haunting Motherhood: Autotheory as borderless writing. Lynley Edmeades University of Otago.16. Joshua in the Sky: writing in the borderland. Rodge Glass, University of Strathclyde.17. Narrative Aporias and Lost Futures. Robert Edgar, York St John UniversityBibliographyIndex