Julia Bell
Welcome to my website. I am a writer and Reader in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, where I teach on the MA in Creative Writing.
My recent creative work includes poetry, lyric essays and short stories published in the Paris Review, Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, Mal Journal, Comma Press, and recorded for the BBC.
I have also published three novels with Macmillan in the UK (Simon & Schuster in the US) and am the co-editor of the bestselling Creative Writing Coursebook (Macmillan) updated and re-issued in 2019.
I am interested in the intersection between the personal and the political and believe that writing well takes courage, patience, attention and commitment, qualities I try to encourage in my many brilliant students. I also enjoy taking photographs.