Professor Andy Melrose 

Professor of Children’s Writing 

Faculty of Arts 

Andrew.Melrose@winchester.ac.uk 

+44 (0) 1962 827367 

The University of Winchester
Winchester
Hampshire
SO22 4NR

Expertise

Andrew Melrose is Professor of Children’s Writing at the University of Winchester, he has over 150 film, fiction, non-fiction, research, songs, poems and other writing credits, including The Story Keepers film series, a “textual intervention” on the New Testament, broadcast worldwide, and 28 scholarly or creative books; is the editor of the journal Writing4Children and a founding member of the TEXT: journal of writing and writing courses international advisory board. In addition to his creative writing Andrew has written a number of books, articles and book chapters on various aspects of Critical and Creative Writing and the Cult and Culture of the child, children and childhood. Here Comes the Bogeyman: Exploring contemporary issues in writing for children and Monsters Under the Bed: Critically investigating early years writing are to be published by Routledge in 2012. Critical appraisal of creativity and reflexive practice on culture, communication and media is an intrinsic part of the creative writing culture at the University of Winchester and as such academic engagement is seen as a crucial component in his work.

Publications

Editor of Write4Children: The International Journal for the Practice and Theories of Writing for Children and Children’s Literature - www.write4children.org

Books (for academic purpose)

  • Here Comes The Bogeyman Exploring contemporary issues in writing for children (2011)
  • Monsters Under the Bed critically investigating early years writing (2011)
  • Write for Children (Routledge) (2002)
  • Storykeeping – the story, the child and the word in cultural crisis Paternoster (2002)  

Recent RAE Related Articles

  • “Intimacy and the Icarus Effect” Axon Axon: Creative Explorations:   contemporary creativity, poetry, images and design, Issue 1, No 1,    Intimacy, September 2011
  • "Jesus, Judas, Jimi and John: culture, communication, media and art in delightful chaos” TEXT Journal of Writing and Writing Course, Vol 14, No1, April 2010
  • ‘Kyoto – A Collaborative Project between a Student (GA) and her Supervisor (AM)’, with Grace Astor, New Writing (2008)
  • ‘Crabs (and stories) walking sideways; life beyond the death of the story’ in Maggie Butt, ed, Story the Heart of the Matter (2008)
  • ‘Junk, Skunk and Northern Lights – representing drugs in Children’s Literature, Paul Manning, ed, Drugs and Popular Culture (2008)
  • ‘Reading and Righting  - carrying on the “creative writing theory” debate, what  should we expect from creative writing students? New Writing (2006)
  • ‘Writing for children – a critical perspective’, a chapter in Peter Hunt ed., Routledge Companion Encyclopaedia of Children’s Literature – 2nd Edition (2004)

Films/Screenplays: Year screened by ITV

  • The Storykeepers Series
    Written and Created by Andrew Melrose and Brian Brown
    Produced by Shepherd Films (Dublin) and Zondervan (USA)
  • 13 Films for ITV (broadcast every Sunday for 7 years from 1996-2001
  • The Christmas Storykeepers
    An animated feature film – broadcast on ITV Christmas Day 1998 and 1999
  • The Easter Storykeeepers
    An animated feature film – broadcast Easter Sunday 1998; 1999; 2000
  • Friends and Heroes
    42 Films – an animated film series, broadcast on the BBC 2007

Fiction

Early Readers - (Age 4-8) The Storykeepers Series, all with Brian Brown, published by CASSELL (UK) and ZONDERVAN (USA) and being re-released by PATERNOSTER except where specified.

  • Breakout (1996)      
  • Raging Waters (1996)   
  • Catacomb Rescue (1996)  
  • Ready, Aim, Fire! (1997)
  • Sink or Swim (1997)   
  • Starlight Escape (1997)  
  • Captured (1997)   
  • Roar in the Night (1997)  
  • Trapped (1997)   
  • Victory (1998)    
  • The Storykeepers Collection Hunt and Thorpe (1999)
  • Foul Play Heineman (2000)  
  • The Mouse Stone Ginn (2001)
  • The Stone Mouse Ginn, USA (2001)
  • Magic Mr Edison Red Fox, Random House (2002)
  • Magic Mr Edison Red Fox, Random House, Korea – translated with accompanying audio tape (2003)

Pre-teen Novels - (The Storykeepers Series, all with Brian Brown)

  • Breakout (1996)     
  • Raging Waters (1996) 
  • Catacomb Rescue  (1996)       
  • Ready, Aim, Fire! (1997) 
  • Sink or Swim (1997)   
  • Starlight Escape (1997)
  • Captured (1997)    
  • Roar in the Night (1997)  
  • Trapped (1997)   
  • Victory (1998)    
  • Foul Play with Judy Waite, Illustrated by Garry Davies, Heineman (1998)

Songs (Recorded for films or CD)

  • I Will Wait Loobie Music (1998)
  • Hold Me Loobie Music (1998)
  • You Have to be Strong Now RAE Music (1999)
  • Shemhadar RAE Music (1999)
  • Handmaiden’s Lullaby RAE Music (1999)

Research Interests

Literature, Criticism, Creatively Critical and Critically Creative Writing

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

  • NAWE
  • SCBWI