Background

John Challis is the author of The Resurrectionists, due out from Bloodaxe in 2021, and the pamphlet, The Black Cab (Poetry Salzburg, 2017), which was a 2019 New Writing North Read Regional title. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Northern Writers’ Award. In 2015 he was a poet-in-residence with the Northern Poetry Library and chosen as one of the Poetry Trust’s Aldeburgh Eight. His poems have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and published in journals including Magma, The North, Poetry London, The Rialto, Stand, and elsewhere. John also writes reviews and essays, most recently for Wild Court, PN Review, Poetry Salzburg Review and The Poetry School. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Newcastle University, where he currently works as a Research Associate.

Teaching

In the academic year 2020/21 John will teach on the following modules:

SEL1000: Introduction to Creative Writing

SEL2224: Poetry Workshop

SEL8686: The Longer Poem and the Sequence

Research

John holds and a PhD in Creative Writing from Newcastle University for a thesis entitled The Knowledge: A Collection of Poems, and The Poem Noir: Film Noir in Contemporary Poetry.

His research interests include Cotemporary British, Irish and American Poetry, and Creative Practice.

Publications

• Challis J. The Resurrectionists . Hexham: Bloodaxe Books, 2021. In Press.
• Challis J. The Black Cab. Salzburg, Austria: Poetry Salzburg, 2017.
• Challis J. Two poems: The moth collector and This is the market. The North 2017. The Poetry Business, 58.
• Challis J. Three poems: Cabbie's Creed, In Praise of the Flood, Hansard. Poetry Salzburg Review 2017. Poetry Salzburg, 31.
• Challis J. Two poems: Things can only get better and Pillbox. The Rialto 2017. The Rialto, 88.
• Challis J. Two poems: North Casades and in my heart. Poetry London 2017. Poetry London, 86.
• Challis J. Two poems: Fish n Chips and Hail. Under the Radar 2016. Nine Arches Press.
• Challis J. Shadow Cabinet. In: W.N. Herbert; Andy Jackson, ed. New Boots and Pantisocracies. Smokestack Books, 2016.
• Challis J. The Rectors of Rame. In: Fr. Oliver Brennan, Todd Swift, ed. The Poet's Quest for God: 21st Century Poems of Faith, Doubt and Wonder. Eyewear Publishing, 2016.
• Challis J. The Guilty. In: Live Canon; Jones, M; Eastman, H, ed. 154. Live Cannon, 2016.
• Challis J. Advertising. In: Bill Henderson, ed. The Pushcart Prize Xl 2016: Best of the Small Presses. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
• Challis J. The Love. Poetry London 2015. Poetry London, Autumn 2015(82).
• Challis J. B-Road Lay By. The Rialto 2015. The Rialto, 83.
• Challis J. Two poems: The Knowledge and Hansard. BBC Radio 4 2014. BBC.
• Challis John. The Black Cab. University of Salzburg: Poetry Salzburg, 2017.