Lecturer, School of English and Media Studies, Massey University

"I believe students should get a chance to do something once, revise it, and then try it again – while receiving extensive feedback".

Bryan has been at Massey for four years teaching creative writing and specialising in poetry. The structure of his courses and the exceptionally high quality of his feedback to students about their writing are a feature of student course appraisals.

He has revised his course and developed others with equal success. He has contributed significantly to his colleagues at Massey and to a broader level of teaching within the literary community. 

He has served on the organising committee for the Tertiary Writing Network Conference and in October 2005 was nominated to be a Vice-Chancellors’ Committee representative on the Accreditation Panel for the Whitireia Polytechnic Bachelor of Fine Arts application.