Novelist’s help is write-on for students

Award-winning novelist Jonathan Tulloch is working with students at the University.

He has been appointed as a Royal Literary Fund (RLF) Fellow to help students with challenges such as essay writing.

Jonathan, 36, who lives near Thirsk, North Yorkshire, has had four novels published.

His 2000 debut, The Season Ticket, won the Betty Trask Award for first novel and was made into the film Purely Belter.

Jonathan’s current novel, Give Us This Day, describes the life of a Roman Catholic priest in South Bank, Middlesbrough.

In 2003, Jonathan was nominated by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the UK’s 20 best young novelists. The following year, he received the RLF’s JB Priestley Award for the year’s most promising young writer.

The RLF Fellowship scheme places writers in higher education institutions. Jonathan, who will work one-to-one with students, said: “I leapt at the chance to do this. I was offered the opportunity to work in a number of universities and chose Teesside. I’ve always liked the area and the University is flourishing. I’m looking forward to reaching out to Teesside’s diverse student population at all levels and subjects, from parttime to postgraduate, from electronics to physiotherapy.

“I can remember agonising about how to write an essay when I was at university. Hopefully my experiences will benefit the students.”

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