Scarlett Thomas

Senior Lecturer Director, Centre for Creative Writing
Phone: 01227 824164 Office: NC 35a
Email: s.thomas@kent.ac.uk  

Scarlett Thomas

Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. She is the author of the novels Bright Young Things, Going Out, PopCo and, most recently, The End of Mr. Y, which has so far been translated into 22 languages, longlisted for the Orange Prize, and shortlisted for the South African Boeke Prize. In 2001 she was included in the Independent on Sunday's list of the UK's 20 best young writers, and in 2002 she won an Elle Style Award for the novel Going Out. She reviews fiction for the New York Times and the Guardian, and she has written short fiction and articles for various anthologies and publications, including Nature Magazine, the Guardian and the Independent on Sunday. She has also had stories broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Scarlett has been teaching at the University of Kent since 2004, and has developed new modules on the contemporary novel and narrative theory and practice. She is currently working on her eighth novel.

Scarlett is particularly interested in metafiction, the post-structuralist novel and notions of realism and authenticity in contemporary fiction. She is also interested in mathematics and fiction, the contemporary novel of ideas and the novel as thought-experiment.

Scarlett Thomas has a BA (Hons) in Cultural Studies (University of East London, 1992-1995).


Research Supervision

Scarlett Thomas is currently supervising five practice-as-research Creative writing PhD students and one MA (Research) student, all of whom are writing novels.

Teaching
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Selected Publications
NOVELS
  • 2004 PopCo 4th Estate (HarperCollins, London) US publication forthcoming (Harcourt, New York) and film rights pending.
  • 2002 Going Out 4th Estate (HarperCollins, London)Film rights: Greenlit Productions; U.S. publication in 2004 (Random House, New York); Russian publication in 2004 (Eksmo, Moscow).
  • 2001 Bright Young Things Flame (Hodder & Stoughton, London)Film rights: Trillion Entertainment; Russian publication in 2004 (Eksmo, Moscow).
  • 2000 Seaside Hodder & Stoughton U.S. publication in 2005 (Justin Charles, Boston).
  • 1999 In Your Face Hodder & Stoughton German publication in 2000; U.S. publication in 2004 (Justin Charles, Boston).
  • 1998 Dead Clever Hodder & Stoughton, German publication in 1999; U.S. publication in 2003 (Justin Charles, Boston).
SHORT STORIES AND POEMS
  • "Interlude" Product Magazine (Forthcoming)
  • "The Whole Country" Zembla Magazine Summer 2004
  • "Why My Grandmother Learned to Play the Flute" Curly Tales series on Radio 4, November 2003(Story/soundscape)
  • "The Old School Museum" Big Night Out HarperCollins, 2002. Page 329-340
  • "Debbie's Dreams" The Stealth Corporation magazine, 2002
  • "The Getaway" Sunday Times Style October 13th 2002. Page 16-19
  • "Goldfish" Butterfly Magazine Issue 5, 2000. Page 68-71
  • "Mind Control" All Hail the New Puritans 4th Estate, 2000. Page 1-8