About Dr Sam Kemp
Dr Sam Kemp is Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northeastern University London. He’s a widely published poet and his work has been featured in international journals and anthologies. His teaching specialisms include contemporary poetry and poetics, hybrid and experimental writing, electronic writing, and aspects of professional writing practice. Sam read for his BA in Creative Writing and his MA in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Gloucestershire and completed his PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth.
Qualifications
PhD Creative Writing (University of Plymouth)
PGCAP (University of Plymouth)
MA Creative and Critical Writing (University of Gloucestershire)
BA (Hons) Creative Writing (University of Gloucestershire)
Dr Sam Kemp's Research
Dr Sam Kemp is a practice-based researcher who specialises in the poetics of place and radical artistic processes, particularly those relating to walking and the landscape, as well as digital and visual poetics. His research interests also include British pastoral poetry, nostalgia, psychogeography/mythogeography, biographical writing and archival practices.
He placed 4th in the 2020 Streetcake Experimental Writing prize, was shortlisted for the 2023 Crimson Spine Pocket Book award, and got an honorable mention in the 2024 Wishing Jewel Prize for innovative writing. He hosts the Radical Writing Podcast, which brings academics and students from different departments together to find common ground in new and iconic experimental writing.
Publications (Critical)
Maps to Arkham: Lovecraft, Landscape and visual Poetry [article] (Writing in Practice 2023)
Walking through: Nostalgia, Mythogeography and the Rural Dérive in Peter Riley’s Alstonefield [article] (New Writing: 2022)
The Documentary Drift: Lutyens, Cockington and Poetry [chapter] (Walking Bodies: 2017)
Publications (Recent Creative)
Maps to Arkham – Nat1
ZX Spectrum – ANMLY
Moonshot (extract) – Unlost Journal
A Metal Window Dictionary (lut lut lut extract) – MIR Online
Dr Sam Kemp's Teaching
Sam has taught across numerous levels and specialisms and leads the Final Year Project and Publishing Horizons and Electric Frontiers courses. He also leads the Poetry Masterclass course on the Contemporary Creative Writing Masters. He’s a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and experienced in designing courses for students from a wide range of academic backgrounds.