Associate Professor

Teaching Focus: Fiction

Warwick Writing Programme

School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures

Email: G.Ceron-Garcia@warwick.ac.uk

Location: Millburn House

Gonzalo C. Garcia is a Chilean writer and Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at the Warwick Writing Programme. His first novel, We Are The End, launched in October 2017 with Galley Beggar Press and was nominated for the Edinburgh Festival First Novel Award 2017. He was also shortlisted for the 2021 Bristol Short Story Prize. His second novel, Telenovela, is set to release in 2024 with Galley Beggar Press.

His interests are neo-liberal reforms in Chile in relation to cultural authenticity, memory, nostalgia, and historical trauma.

Current Interests for PhD Supervision: Literary fiction with a focus on politics and love.

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• Novel: Telenovela, Galley Beggar Press, Set to release Autumn 2024.
• Novel: We Are The End, Galley Beggar Press, November 2017.
• Short Story (shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize): ‘Unlikely Goals Worth Pursuing’ in Bristol Short Story Prize 2021 Anthology, Volume 14, Tangent Books, 2021, pp. 102-116.
• Short Story: 'Everything Must Go’ in Tide Magazine, June Issue, Paris, 2021 (https://www.tidemagazine.fr/), pp. 54-57.
• Book chapter: Gonzalo C. Garcia and Vincent Miller, 'Digital Ruins: Virtual Worlds as Landscapes of Disconnection in Disentangling: The Geographies of Digital Disconnection, (Oxford University Press, June 2021), pp. 163-188.
• Journal Essay: Garcia, Gonzalo and Miller, Vincent, ‘Digital Ruins & Cultural Geographies', June 2019 2018.
• Flash Fiction:
  ‘Tango’ in Visual Verse, Volume 04, Chapter 12, 2018.
• Short Story: ‘Like Penguins in The Desert’, longlisted for the 2015 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize.
• Short Story: ‘The Deaf Araucaria’ in London Journal of Fiction, June Issue, 2016.
• Short Story: ‘The Hole in The Roof’ in Singles Club, Galley Beggar Press, 2016.
• Short Story: ‘Big Bone’ in Singles Club, Galley Beggar Press, 2016.

Other Activities

• Judge for the McKitterick Prize 2023
• Judge for Sunday Times Young Writer of The Year Award 2021
• Judge for Sunday Times Young Writer of The Year Award 2019