Dr Helen Pleasance

• Senior Lecturer : Creative Writing
• School of Humanities, Religion & Philosophy

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Article

Edgar, Robert, Mann, Fraser and Pleasance, Helen (2019) Music, Memory and Memoir: Critical and creative engagement with an emerging genre. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 12 (1-2). pp. 181-199.

Pleasance, Helen (2011) Lost Children, the Moors & Evil Monsters: the photographic story of the Moors murders. Image & Narrative, 12 (4). pp. 18-38.

Book Section

Bradbury, Janine (2019) Grace Jones: Cyborg Memoirist. In: Mann, Fraser, Pleasance, Helen and Edgar, Robert, (eds.) Music, Memory, and Memoir. Bloomsbury, pp. 65-80

Mann, Fraser (2019) Portrait of the Artists as an Indie Star: Kristin Hersh and the memoir of process. In: Mann, Fraser, Edgar, Robert and Pleasance, Helen, (eds.) Music, Memory and Memoir. London, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 39-51

Pleasance, Helen (2015) Ghosts of the real: the spectral memoir. In: Tansley, Laura and Maftei, Micaela, (eds.) Writing creative non-fiction: determining the form. Canterbury, Gylphi, pp. 71-88

Pleasance, Helen (2013) The essential subject? The very documented life of Myra Hindley. In: Stanley, Liz, (ed.) Documents of life revisited : narrative and biographical methodology for a 21st century critical humanism. Ashgate, pp. 45-58

Book

Hurley, Ursula and Pleasance, Helen, eds. (2019) Purple Reign. First ed. Liverpool, UK, Erbacce-press

Edgar, Robert, Mann, Fraser and Pleasance, Helen (2019) Music, Memory and Memoir. London, Bloomsbury