The Writing Centre
SU London Writing CenterWhat we do:

The primary aim of the Writing Centre is to assist you in becoming a strong, more accomplished writer. Writing consultants work one-to-one with you at any stage of your writing process. The consultants are here to:

• interpret an assignment sheet, talk through ideas for a project, or plan a paper (outline)
• (re)consider choices with regard to audience, focus, reasoning or organization (structure)
• develop ideas with greater specificity
• integrate scholarly sources and apply proper documentation (citation)
• improve editing and proofreading skills, expand vocabulary, and better understand technical conventions of writing across the academy

Writing Consultants will NOT:

• write a paper for you
• edit your paper
• dispute or question grades

Consultations last one (1) hour and are with experienced tutors, both with advanced degrees. Please sign-up on the sheets provided outside the Writing Centre (SR201) or by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Your lecturers may also submit a formal request to the Writing Centre to contact you and schedule an appointment on an assignment.

Hours (in SR201):

Regular opening hours: Monday – Thursday, 1pm-6pm

WRITING CENTRE OPENS – 6th FEBRUARY

Spring Break, Writing Centre Closed – 12-16th March

Extended Hours for Finals – 20-21st April, 27-28th April (See Schedule on bulletin board next to SR201, or email for specifics)

WRITING CENTRE CLOSES – 30th APRIL


Your Writing Centre Consultants:

Justin HuntR. Justin Hunt
Adjunct Professor, Gender & Sexuality Studies; Lead Writing Centre Consultant

R. Justin Hunt is a lecturer, producer and performer. He received his bachelor’s degree in Educational Theater and Dance from Emerson College and his Master’s in Performance Studies from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Justin is completing a PhD at Roehampton University, London. He is an Adjunct Professor of Performance and Liberal Studies at Hult International Business School and an Adjunct Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies at Syracuse University London. He is one third of the quarterly live art production team “I’m with you.”



Season ButlerSeason Butler
Adjunct Professor, Writing; Writing Centre Consultant

Season Butler is currently reading an MPhil/PhD in the School of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths College in London following the completion of her MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her research concerns narrative structures in creative non-fiction, examining the possibilities of narrative voice as a tool of resistance to challenge traditional trajectories of representation and economies of the gaze. She has lived and worked in London for almost ten years, writing short and long-form fiction, art criticism and feminist commentary. Season is also Adjunct Professor of Writing and Liberal Studies at Hult International Business School.


 

Dr. Jonathan Kemp
Writing Centre Consultant

Jonathan Kemp was born in Manchester on the same day as the first Velvet Underground album was released. He spent the first two years of his life in Malaysia, but grew up in Cheshire and moved to London in 1989.

He currently teaches creative writing and comparative literature at Birkbeck, where he was awarded Distinguished Sessional Lecturer in 2010. Jonathan writes both fiction and non-fiction, and was a co-founder of the Planet Martha Theatre Company (1994-98). He is also a dj, running for the past nine years a monthly club night, Lower the Tone, with the artist Sadie Lee and musician Lea Andrews. He occasionally performs with avant-garde dada-esque dance troupe The Dancing Brodericks.

His first novel, London Triptych, was shortlisted for the inagural Green Carnation Prize and won the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Myriad has published his second book, Twentysix, in November 2011, and will publish and his forthcoming novel, Hannah Rose, in 2012..