Work Shoot Confessional

Tom Dean is a PhD candidate researching the wacky, wonderful world of pro-wrestling. His creative and critical project focuses on what he’s calling, ‘the work, shoot confessional’ – where pro-wrestlers insert the most personal details of their real lives into storylines. Or, as literary folk call it nowadays, autofiction.

Creative Writing! Pro-wrestling! Things about these things.

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    The first page of my creative project – a pro-wrestling novel

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    Now making his way to the blogosphere…

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Tom Dean is a writer and PhD candidate currently based in York, UK. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester, and has studied under the tutelage of MJ Hyland, Jeanette Winterson, George Saunders and Mary Karr.

His work explores pro-wrestling as an art form, a mode of embodied performance in which performers tell the story of their lives. This blog records his progress, shares his creative work and research, and his frustrations with it.

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