Henry Sutton is Professor of Creative Writing and Crime Fiction in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is Director of Creative Writing MA (Crime Fiction), and was Director of Creative Writing/Head of Department, 2018-2021. He has taught all levels of undergraduate and postgraduate creative writing and supervises (and examines internationally) creative-critical PhDs.
His new monograph, Crafting Crime Fiction, is out now with Manchester University Press and offers insight into all that he has learned about crime writing over 16 novels and years of teaching and lecturing. He is also series editor, with Dr Margot Douaihy (Franklin Pierce) and Dr Catherine Ross Nickerson (Emory), on ‘Elements in Crime Narratives’, a 30 short monograph series for Cambridge University Press. He previously edited, with Laura Joyce, Domestic Noir: The New Face of 21st Century Crime Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
He is lead on UEA’s Future and Form of Literature creative technology project funded by Arts Council England and other partners. He is also the co-founder of Noirwich, Norwich’s Crime Writing Festival and former Director of the UEA Literary Festival. Henry also offers private mentoring for budding crime novelists.
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