Royal Literary Fund Fellows
Would you like to improve your academic writing?
If so you can book a session with our Royal Literary Fund Fellows. The Fellows are available by office appointment to help all members of the university – undergraduates and postgraduates alike – with queries and problems relating to the practical aspects of writing.
Arrange a meeting
If you are based at Penryn, please email roz.watkins@rlfeducation.org.uk to arrange an appointment on a Thursday or Friday during term time and Roz will send you information about how to book.
If you are based at the Streatham Campus, please email matt.bryden@rlfeducation.org.uk to arrange an appointment on a Monday (in person) or Tuesday (online) during term time. Please use Calendly for bookings.
RLF Fellow at Penryn
Roz Watkins is a crime writer, author of a detective series set in the Peak District and a standalone thriller, The Red House, one of the Times ‘best books of summer 2023’. Her first book, The Devil’s Dice, was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger award, and was the Times crime book of the month.
Roz lives in Falmouth with her extremely demanding cats. She enjoys walking in the countryside looking for murder locations and sea-swimming when the weather allows. She’s also a big fan of drinking coffee and eating cake while planning her next novel, a Cornwall-based thriller.
To book a session, please send an email to the address below and Roz will send you information about how to book. She is available on Thursdays and Fridays in term time.
Roz's office: Peter Lanyon Building, Room 168b
Roz’s email: roz.watkins@rlfeducation.org.uk
Roz's website: www.rozwatkins.co.uk
RLF Fellow at Streatham
Matt Bryden’s first pamphlet Night Porter won the 2010 Templar pamphlet prize. His full-length collection Boxing the Compass was published by Templar in 2013. More recently, The Glassblower’s House, winner of the 2023 Live Canon pamphlet competition, is an exploration of fatherhood against a background of personal catastrophe. A keen classicist, while studying for a Master’s degree at Goldsmiths, University of London, Matt wrote a long essay on Christopher Logue’s War Music that was nominated for the Arthur Terry award for writing that links history and literature.
In addition to running national poetry competitions for young people, Matt has been supported by the Arvon Foundation, the Poetry Society, the Betjeman Society and the George Orwell Foundation. Matt has assisted numerous young writers in finding their voices. His online interactive Poetry Map, designed to prepare GCSE students for the Unseen Poem question, won an honourable mention at the 2018 Electronic Literature awards. Matt’s poetry has won the William Soutar prize, the Charroux Memoir prize and, in 2018, a Literature Matters award from the Royal Society of Literature for Lost and Found, a project that steps through the Lost Property Office at Bristol Temple Meads to re-emerge amidst the Greek Underworld.
Matt’s teaching career has taken him to Poland, the Czech Republic, Tuscany, Turkey and South Sudan. He lives in Devon with his daughter.
Matt’s email: matt.bryden@rlfeducation.org.uk
