Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Carolyn Jess-Cooke (born 26 August 1978 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a poet and novelist from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Early life
Carolyn Jess-Cooke was born in
Career
Jess-Cooke now publishes her fiction as CJ Cooke. She is the author of bestselling gothic novels, The Nesting (2020), which was published in 2021 in the UK and Commonwealth by HarperCollins, The Lighthouse Witches, which was nominated for ITW Thriller Awards and an Edgar Award from Mystery Writers of America, and optioned for a TV series by StudioCanal, and The Ghost Woods (2022), which was an Indigo Book of the Year 2022. Jess-Cooke regularly visits the place where she sets her books to carry out fieldwork and interviews.
Jess-Cooke's
In 2020, Jess-Cooke set up a virtual literary festival, The Stay-at-Home Literary Festival, which featured hundreds of writers, attracted audiences of over 15,000 and ran for two weeks throughout the pandemic.
Jess-Cooke is Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow where she leads research in the field of creative writing interventions for mental illness.
Bibliography
Fiction
- 2011 The Guardian Angel's Journal (Little, Brown/Piatkus)
- 2012 The Boy Who Could See Demons (Little, Brown/Piatkus)
- 2017 I Know My Name (HarperCollins)
- 2019 The Blame Game (HarperCollins
- 2020 The Nesting (HarperCollins)
- 2021 The Lighthouse Witches (HarperCollins)
- 2022 The Ghost Woods (HarperCollins)
Poetry
- 2021 We Have To Leave The Earth (Siren)
- 2014 BOOM! (Seren)
- 2010 Inroads (Seren)
Non-Fiction
- 2007 Shakespeare on Film: Such Things As Dreams Are Made of (London: Wallflower)
- 2009 Apocalyptic Shakespeares (co-edited with M. Croteau) (McFarland)
- 2010 Film Sequels (Edinburgh University Press)
- 2010 Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel (co-edited with C. Verevis) (SUNY)
- 2014 Writing Motherhood (Siren)
References
- ^ Who's Who in Research: Film Studies, Intellect, 2013
- ISBN 978-0749953133.
- ISBN 978-0749953232.
- ^ "Other Writing Projects". Carolynjesscooke.com. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
External links
- Official website
- Research website Writing Mental Health