The Self on the Page

Celia Hunt is Organising Tutor of Creative Writing at the University of Sussex Centre for Continuing Education, where she has established the Certificate in Creative Writing and the Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Writing and Personal Development. In 1994 she was awarded ESRC funding for her doctoral research on the relationship between fiction writing, autobiography and the self, on which she has published a number of articles. She is Chair of LAPIDUS, the Association for the Literary Arts in Personal Development. Fiona Sampson has pioneered the development of writing in healthcare in the UK. Over the last ten years she has worked across the range of health authority care settings with offenders and in social services community care. A prize-winning poet, she is engaged in doctoral research on the theoretical foundations of writing in healthcare. She is a founding member of LAPIDUS.