Pamela Johnson has published fiction, poems, non-fiction and journalism. Her recently completed third novel, Taking In Water, received an Arts Council Writers' Award. She is currently working on her fourth novel, Broken Threads, and a collection of poems, At The Depot For Lost Hats.
For over ten years she has devised and run writing
workshops in a range of contexts - schools, U3A, residential courses for The
Arvon Foundation - and is currently Associate Tutor on the MA in Creative and
Life Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London, where she teaches the fiction
option.
Formerly editor of the Crafts Council's magazine, Crafts, she has previously worked as an independent critic, curator and lecturer on contemporary visual art. Her essays, articles and reviews on contemporary visual art and craft have appeared in journals, broadsheets and gallery publications. She has curated national touring exhibitions and reviewed for Radio 4's Kaleidoscope and Front Row.
Living in London, she is a member of the Clink Street Writers' Group, and, with poet Jane Kirwan, runs a regular Poetry Reading Group - The PRG.
Selected Publications & Projects
Novels
Taking In Water - excerpt from the early manuscript
published in the Writers' Awards 2003 Anthology, Arts Council England, under
the previous working title The Red House
Deep Blue Silence, Sceptre, 2000/01
Short Stories
In Woman's Own, The Sunday Express and in the
anthologies:
The Dreaming Paintbrush, 2005
Pool 2: New Fiction, Ed. Tobias Hill, 2003
Teaching a Chicken To Swim, Seren, 2000
Poetry
Poems published in the magazines Magma, Smiths Knoll,
Scratch, Staple, Writing Women and in the anthologies:
Hand Luggage Only, International Sonnet Competition, 2008
Buzz, Templar Press, 2008
Wading Through Deep Water, Coychurch Press, 2001
Things We Said Today, Stride, 1995
Riding Pillion, Smith/Doorstop, 1994
Poetry Articles
For:
Reviewing/Critical Writing - Visual Arts
Exhibition catalogue essays for public and private
galleries in London and nationally.
Articles and reviews for arts publications, The Guardian and The
Observer.
Radio: Reviewing for BBC Radio 4's Kaleidoscope and Front
Row; arts contributions for BBC Radio 5 Live; BBC Radio Scotland.
Visual Arts Projects
Curator of national touring exhibitions with
publications:
Surfacing, retrospective of internationally respected,
East Anglia based artist, Polly Binns, 2002-2005
Textures of Memory: the poetics of cloth, group show,
studied the way artists in a variety of media - installation, photography,
painting, digital - explore the visual language of cloth, 1999-2000
Bodyscape: Caroline Broadhead, retrospective of
internationally respected, Jerwood Prize winning artist Caroline
Broadhead,1998/9
Under Construction: exploring process in contemporary
textiles, Crafts Council, 1996
Advisory Work
Contemporary Art Society: advisor to special collections scheme, 1999 - 2003
Jerwood Foundation: chair of the judges for the Jerwood
Applied Arts Prize 2002: Textiles
BBC Television: advisor to three series of the schools
art programme, The Art, 1994, 1996/97, 2003
Teaching Creative Writing
2002 - present: Goldsmiths, University of London,
Associate Tutor, MA in Creative and Life Writing, Department of English and
Comparative Literature. Devised the Fiction Option.
2003-2006: University of East Anglia, external examiner,
undergraduate creative writing.
1995 - 2006: Goldsmiths, Department of Visual Art,
devised and ran creative writing workshops for visual artists.
Other teaching includes: visiting writer sessions at,
University of Glamorgan, MPhil in Writing, Liverpool John Moores University, MA
in Imaginative Writing; residential courses for the Arvon Foundation; regular guest tutor, Haringey writers'
group, Word4Word.
Readings and Public Speaking
Fiction and poetry readings at festivals, venues and
bookshops including: Dartington Literature Festival, Chester Literature
Festival, Spit-Lit, Derwent Poetry Festival, Muswell Hill Bookshop, Stoke
Newington Bookshop, The Troubadour. Public gallery talks and visual arts
conferences.
Awards
2003 Arts Council Writers' Award
2003 Writing Residency, London Borough of Haringey, LAB
funded
1997/1998 EAB/UEA Fellowship in Critical Writing [Visual
Art]
Membership
Society of Authors
The English Centre of International P.E.N
National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE)
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