Dr Adam Baron
Faculties, departments and locations
- ΢ÃÜȦ School of Art
- Department of Humanities
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Penrhyn Road
Associate Professor
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
Novelist and Associate Professor in Creative Writing.
Latest novel, Oscar's Lion, December 2024 (HarperCollins).
I have published ten novels. My first four were crime novels (Macmillan). My next was the literary novel, Blackheath (Myriad Editions, 2016). 'Fresh, honest, very funny'. Rachel Cusk.
I currently have a six-book contract with HarperCollins to write novels for younger readers.
Boy Underwater (2018) was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and Branford Boarse awards. To date, it has won The Stockport Schools Book Prize, the Awesome Book Awards, and the Oxfordshire Schools Book prize. It was Waterstones Book of the Month and one of The Guardian Books of the Year 2018.
You Won't Believe This came out in July 2019.
This Wonderful Thing was published by HarperCollins in January, 2021.
Oscar's Lion (2023) was one of The Guardian Books of the Year.
My novels have been widely translated, and dramatised for BBC Radio 4. I hold a PhD in Creative Writing from Brunel University.
Qualifications
- PhD Creative Writing
- I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority
Domains
I teach on the Creative Writing BA, MA, and MFA. I also supervise Creative Writing Phd students.
Qualifications
- Phd
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Courses taught
I supervise PhD students writing narrative based fiction in any genre.
- Baron, A. (2023) Oscar's Lion. London: HarperCollins
- Baron, A. (2022) Some Sunny Day. London: HarperCollins
- Baron, A. (2021) This Wonderful Thing. London: HarperCollins (March 2021)
- Baron, A. (2019) You Won't Believe This. London: HarperCollins.
- Baron, A. (2018) Boy Underwater. London: HarperCollins. Baron, A.
- Baron, A. (2016) Blackheath. Brighton: Myriad.
- Baron, A. (2004) It Was You. London: Macmillan.
- Baron, A. (2002) Superjack. London: Macmillan.
- Baron, A. (2001) Hold Back the Night: Macmillan.
- Baron, A. (1999) Shut Eye: Macmillan.
Poetry
- Baron, A. (2016) DAFFS and Other Poems.
- Baron, A. (2016) Adam Baron on Can Dundar and Erdem Gul.
Articles
- Baron, A. (2014) ‘Industrial cowboy: the development of the male hero template from the western to film noir.' Avanca Cinema International Conference, pp.234-268
- Baron, A. (2012) ‘Permission, potency and protection in the creative writing workshop', in Perry, P. (ed.) Beyond the workshop: creative Writing, theory and practice. London: ΢ÃÜȦ Press, pp. 173-179.
- Baron, A (2013) ‘Ten Finger Turn-Up' (novel serialisation), The Clerkenwell Other Magazine. London
Specialisms
- Fiction
- Poetry
I helped set up ΢ÃÜȦ's MA, MFA and low residency MA and MFA. I was MA course director for many years.
Publications
Oscar's Lion
Baron, Adam (2023). (HarperCollins)
Some sunny day
Baron, Adam (2022). London, U.K.: (HarperCollins Children's Books)
This wonderful thing
Baron, Adam (2021). London, U.K.: (HarperCollins Children's Books)
You won't believe this
Baron, Adam (2019). Glasgow, UK: (HarperCollins)
Boy underwater
Baron, Adam (2018). (HarperCollins Children's Books)
Blackheath
Baron, Adam (2016). Brighton, U.K.: (Myriad Editions)
It was you
Baron, Adam (2004). London, UK: (Macmillan)
Superjack
Baron, Adam (2003). London, UK: (Picador)
Hold back the night
Baron, Adam (2000). London, U.K.: (Pan Macmillan)
Baron, Adam, 2015, 3:AM Magazine
I love to slide my daughters' feet into their shoes
Baron, Adam (2015). In: Brivati, Brian, (eds.), Munro, Jenny, (eds.) and Scamell-Katz, Siemon, (eds.), A mile in their shoes. London, U.K.: The Knitting Circle, pp 38-38
Permission, potency and protection in the creative writing workshop
Baron, Adam (2012). In: Perry, Paul, (ed.), Beyond the workshop. ΢ÃÜȦ upon Thames, U.K.: ΢ÃÜȦ Press, pp 173-178
Forgetting and the novel
Baron, Adam(2018). In: Forgetting, ΢ÃÜȦ Writers' Centre, 25 Jan 2018 :΢ÃÜȦ Upon Thames, U.K.
Adam Baron on Can Dundar and Erdem Gul
Baron, Adam (2016).