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H Raven Rose Swansea University Graddio/Graduation, PhD in Creative Writing awarded 25 July 2024 (Watch to the 10:35+ mark.)RESEARCH DETAILS

DEPT/SUBJECT AREA: Creative Writing (Screenwriting, Science Fiction)

SUPERVISORS: Dr Alan Bilton and Prof David Britton

RESEARCH DEGREE: PhD Creative Writing Research Science-Fiction Screenwriting

THESIS TITLE: Oer – Developing One’s Voice: A Heroine’s Journey to Literary Individuation in Speculative Fiction

RESEARCH SYNOPSIS

Oer Developing One’s Voice consists of a feature film speculative fiction screenplay and other science fiction shorts works (stage play, short film script and produced short films) accompanied by a critical commentary examining and relating researcher-screenwriter creative practice to the literary individuation process. The original science fiction works include a feature-length screenplay and two short film scripts. The work postulates that author voice development is a reflection of creative writing principium individuationis, that emergement of Jung’s ‘totality of all psychic processes’, and a natural evolution of ego advancement.

In the female screenwriter, this Jungian evolution of the ‘self’ involves shadow integration of disowned aspects of being and cultivation of the animus or ‘soul-image’ emergence and ultimately leads the screenwriter to artistic wholeness. The creative practice research analysis comments on the author’s monomyth or journey to voice and literary individuation or creative potential fulfilment within the conceptual frameworks of human evolution, childhood development, and advancement of the individual female psyche and personality.

The commentary proposes that voice development directly relates to critical issues of attachment and identity and that an adult creative may cultivate the literary individuation process. Additionally, the text demonstrates that narrative elements organically embedded within the sci-fi screenplays, including story structure, plot, theme, character, landscape, and symbols, are pertinent to and mirror the screenwriter researcher’s heroine’s journey toward psyche integration and literary individuation.

Conference Papers

Rose, H (2020, September). The Blank Page as Alien: Overcoming Writer’s Block, the Psyche Monster in the House, to Cultivate Writing Flow. Paper presented at College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea, Wales, UK.

Rose, H (2018, August). Mars or Bust: How Science Fiction Films Will Promote Mars Colonization Reality. Paper presented at Mars & the Space Revolution, The 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, Pasadena, CA.                         

Rose, H (2018, September). Total Recall and the Heroine’s Journey: Accessing Memory to Rewrite Personal Narrative and Cultivate Creative Voice. Paper presented at College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea, Wales, UK.

Select Publications and Film Screenings

‘Mars or Bust: How Science Fiction Films Will Promote Mars Colonization Reality’, journal article in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction, ed. by Stuart Clark (London: Head of Zeus Publishing, November 2022)

‘Luminous Bardess Earth to Sun Energies Awaken’, poem in Land of Change: Stories of Struggle and Solidarity from Wales, ed by Gemma June Howell (Newcastle: Culture Matters, May 2022)

“23 Species from 19 States lost to extinction,” In Parentheses, poem (Winter 2022)

Sacred Birthday, Sacred Wales – Pen-Blwydd yn Gysegredig, Cymru Sanctaidd, Wales International Film Festival 2021, Winner Jury’s Award Special Prize Illustrated Poem, short film (September 2021)

Sacred Birthday, Sacred Wales – Pen-Blwydd yn Gysegredig, Cymru Sanctaidd, Tofu Ink Arts Press, poem + short film (Summer 2021)

Waking Up Wild + Snow, Tofu Ink Arts Press, creative nonfiction (Spring 2021)

Compost Speak and the untitled work after, text collages by Marianne Tuckman M.Phil Creative Writing postgraduate at Swansea University, include excerpts of my poem Sacred Birthday, Sacred Wales – Pen-Blwydd yn Gsegredig, Cymru (which features a line of And Death Shall Have No Dominion by esteemed poet Dylan Thomas) (n.d.)

Oer, straight 8 says hello bristol, The Cube Microplex, Bristol, England, UK, Super 8 short film (2018)

Oer*, Cinema & Co., Swansea, Wales, UK, digital, experimental animated short film (2018)

Sleep Disturbance, The Cube Microplex, Bristol, England, UK, Super 8 film short film (2018)

Sleep Disturbance, Rough Diamonds+, Taliesin Create Space, Swansea, Wales, UK reading, excerpt stage play (2018)

AN EXAMINATION OF TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE STORY DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES FOR SCREENWRITERS: In the Context of Creativity and Hemispheres of the Human Brain (2003)

researchgate.net  DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26808.14089

Honoured that our film ‘Sacred Birthday, Sacred Wales – Pen-Blwydd yn Gysegredig, Cymru Sanctaidd’ won the Jury’s Award Special Prize in the Illustrated Poem category at the Wales International Film Festival (WalesIFF). Diolch yn fawr iawn and special thanks to cinematographers Andrew Gronow and Dave Shaw as well as outstanding voice talent Tomos Davies and rare talent composer Kevin MacLeod as well as Wales International Film Festival. #womenfilmmakers #experimentalfilm #shortfilms #videopoem #WalesIFF2021 #WIFLA 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ❤️ Trailer >> https://vimeo.com/598524962

Incredible poet, writer and friend Gemma June Howell is taking part in BBC Radio 4’s ‘Tongue & Talk: The Dialect Poets.’ It airs in one minute here:

It is an honor to have my eco-fiction poem “23 species from 19 States lost to extinction” alongside terrific poetry and prose writers in the new Winter 2022 issue of In Parentheses Literary Magazine. #ecofiction #poetry Cover and interior B&W photographs by Phillipe Martin Chatelain! Support In Parentheses and the literary arts by purchasing copies here >

In celebration of women and the feminine around the world. ❤️🪶🖋🌎 Reading from ‘Luminous Bardess Earth to Sun Energies Awaken’

It is an honour to have my ecofeminist 🌏 ☀️ union centric alchemical 🪶 ecopoem ‘Luminous Bardess Earth to Sun Energies Awaken’ included in ‘Land of Change: Stories of Struggle and Solidarity from Wales,’ a stellar landmark anthology from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 which was edited by an über creative creadigol talent, Dr Gemma June Howell. Please celebrate by attending the book launch and panel event at the Literary Salon series, presented by the Cultural Institute and Culture Matters on the Swansea University Singleton Campus next Thursday (where many author and artist contributors will be available to sign your book copies). Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you very much. #landofchange #Walesislush #ecopoem #ecofeminist #ecofiction

It’s an absolute honour to have our short film (video poem) Sacred Birthday, Sacred Wales – Pen-Blwydd yn Gysegredig, Cymru Sanctaidd shortlisted as a finalist in the “Illustrated Poem” category for the Wales International Film Festival. #GFRCymru2021 Thank you to my fantastic UK-based crew, and most especially cinematographers Andrew Gronow and Dave Shaw, and oh-so-talented multi-lingual voice talent Tomos Davies! Diolch yn fawr iawn.

In The Book of Mars, Dr Stuart Clark selects one hundred pieces of writing about the red planet. It is a collection that brings together fact and fiction, dreams and fears, centuries of observation along with more recent feats of interstellar exploration.

Read Mars or Bust: How Science Fiction Films Will Promote Mars Colonization Reality, a journal article in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction, ed. by Stuart Clark (London: Head of Zeus Publishing, November 2022), based on the talk H gave fat the 21st Annual Mars Society Convention, Pasadena, CA (30 Nov 2018).

From myth to Musk, astrology to astronomy, Dr Stuark Clark selects the very best writing about the Red Planet. From its very first sighting, Mars has been a source of fascination for humanity. Named for the Roman god of war, this red planet has been explored more than any other beyond Earth and continues to occupy a distinctive place in our imagination. It’s an environment that may even foster life.In The Book of Mars, Dr Stuart Clark selects one hundred pieces of writing about the planet. It is a collection that brings together fact and fiction, dreams and fears, centuries of observation and more recent feats of interstellar exploration.From classic writers of science fiction – Stanley G. Weinbaum, Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Pamela Sargent, Roger Zelazny – to distinguished experts in astronomy, astrobiology and aerospace engineering; from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning authors – Kim Stanley Robinson, Mary Robinette Kowal – to trail-blazing journalists and science communicators; from Andy Weir’s The Martian to Elon Musk’s SpaceX programme, The Book of Mars is an extraordinary overview both of the Red Planet and of the way scientific investigation diffuses into culture.

It is an honour to have my ecofeminist union centric alchemical ecopoem ‘Luminous Bardess Earth to Sun Energies Awaken’ included in ‘Land of Change: Stories of Struggle and Solidarity from Wales,’ a stellar landmark anthology from Wales which was edited by an über creative creadigol poet Dr Gemma June Howell.

A diverse and vibrant anthology of stories, histories, polemic, poetry, and song, accompanied by paintings, drawings, collages and photographs, on themes of resistance by under-represented and marginalised voices in Wales.