School of Creative Arts, Film and Media (SCAFM)

My practice-led research, where my creative writing, or practice, is a subject of critical interrogation, focuses on the idea of genre and the relationship between the novella and microfiction, and how they could both, as fully-functioning forms, be regarded as somehow ‘incomplete’. I combine my research activity with a successful creative writing practice, for which I have won awards. I have also co-edited an anthology of microfictions and prose poems, out now.

Current Research^{[Back to top]}

I intend to turn the critical half of my Ph.D. thesis into a monograph, examining the forms and functions of the novella and microfiction. I also aim to reconfigure the creative writing in the thesis, namely the novella, and have this published as a creative work in its own right.

In my creative writing, I am currently completing a new novel.

Publications^{[Back to top]}

Publications since 2008

PhD Thesis^{[Back to top]}

Howitt-Dring, L. H. (2008). Meaning and incompleteness: the question of genre in microfiction and the novella. Unpub. Ph. D. Thesis. Cardiff: Cardiff University.

Creative Writing Practice^{[Back to top]}

www.hollyhowitt.com

Howitt, H. and Fortune-Wood, J. (Eds). (2010). Exposure. Blaenau Ffestiniog: Cinnamon Press.

Howitt, H. (2009). The Schoolboy. Blaenau Ffestiniog: Cinnamon Press.

Howitt, H. (2008). Dinner Time and other stories. Blaenau Ffestiniog: Cinnamon Press.

Howitt, H. (2007). From this day forth. In Kiernan, A. (Ed.),  A bit on the side (pp. 37-47). Cardigan: Parthian.

Howitt, H. (2006). Water. In The final theory and other stories (p.  11). Abercynon: Leaf Books.

Howitt, H. (2006). Harvest. In The final theory and other stories (p. 30). Abercynon: Leaf Books.

Howitt, H. (2006). Cars. In The final theory and other stories (p. 48). Abercynon: Leaf Books.

Conference Papers

Unpublished^{[Back to top]}

Howitt-Dring, H. (2010). How short is short? At: New Narratives. Gellifawr.

Howitt-Dring, H. (2008). Making micro meanings. At: Writers and writing: creative and critical approaches. Gregynog: University of Wales Cardiff.