Haunted Writing Storytelling from the Borders of Fiction and Nonfiction

Helen Pleasance is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature at York St. John University, UK. Her research interests include Contemporary Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction in all its forms, especially memoir, biography and true crime. She has published on the memoir form and narrative constructions of the Moors murders, as well as writing fiction and creative nonfiction. She is currently researching how domestic needlecraft shaped women's lives in the twentieth century.

Robert Edgar is Professor of Writing and Popular Culture in the York Centre for Writing based in the School of Humanities at York St John University, UK. He has published on Screenwriting (2009), Directing Fiction (2009), The Language of Film (Bloomsbury, 2010 and 2015), The Music Documentary (2013), The Arena Concert (Bloomsbury, 2015), Music, Memory and Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2019), Adaptation for Scriptwriters (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Venue Stories (2023). He is co-editing the forthcoming Bloomsbury publication, Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children's Fiction.