• Writer in Residence for older people in association with Ledbury Poetry Festival, 2008-9.
• Creative writing workshops with adult literacy students, 2008-2009, in association with Ledbury Poetry Festival.
• Creative writing sessions with older people in residential care home (part of the Gloucestershire’s POPPs project), May-June 2008.
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Writer in Residence with Oncology Inpatients, Cheltenham Hospital, spring 2008.
• Reminiscence workshop with older people in Tewkesbury, January 2008.
• Wrote poems and prose pieces based on experiences of the Gloucestershire
floods, described by local people, for Cheltenham Literature Festival’s
Ten Days project (autumn 2007). The pieces were displayed at the Literature
Festival and a selection broadcast on Radio Gloucestershire.
• Writer in Residence with Oncology Outpatients, Cheltenham Hospital,
as part of the Gloucestershire Art-Lift arts-in-health project, 2007.
• Performance workshop, Ledbury Poetry Festival, 2007.
• Four workshops to prepare library staff to promote contemporary poetry,
2007-2008.
• Gathered and wrote reminiscence material about the Gloucestershire floods
for Gloucestershire Libraries and Archives, September 2007
• Reader in Residence with a group of carers, in association with Gloucestershire
Libraries and a Dursley doctors’ surgery, spring 2006.
• Writer in Residence for older people in association with Ledbury Poetry
Festival, 2006-7.
• Poet with Cheltenham Flats project, spring 2005; cross-disciplinary
project with a visual artist and a new media artist.
• Reader in Residence for Gloucestershire WI Big Read project, October
2005 - June 2006.
• Reader in Residence, Booktrust Bookscapes project, 2005-2006, working
with young mums-to-be to develop a creative response to reading.
• Writer in Residence for Dorset, October 2005 - June 2006. This included
co-ordinating tutors, venues and publicity for six 10-week creative writing
courses (one of which I am running) and six masterclasses for adults; running
6 full days of creative writing workshops for children; devising and creating
a creative writing training pack for teachers.
• Reader in Residence and IT project officer for older people in Gloucestershire,
September 2004 - May 2005.
• Writer in residence for Age Concern intergenerational project, May -
October 2005, working with three age groups, and culminating in a performance
at Cheltenham Literature Festival.
• Poet in hospitals, Gloucestershire, October 2005 - working with stroke
victims, and performing on wards with a saxophonist.
• Poet with Cheltenham Flats project, spring 2005; cross-disciplinary
project with a visual artist and a new media artist.
• Creative writing workshops in Gloucester Prison, 2004.
• Professional reading group leader, Chipping Norton Theatre, 2003-2005.
• Writer in Residence, Age Concern Gloucestershire, February - October
2004, working with older people, and culminating in readings at the Cheltenham
Literature Festival.
• Writer with NEMLAC project - creative writing with adults with literacy
difficulties, January - September 2004.
• Creative writing tutor for seniors, Chipping Norton Theatre, 2002-2004.
• Reading workshops in Gloucester Prison as part of Residency for Young
People, 2002-3.
• Creative writing tutor with Smoking Cessation Group, Cirencester, October-November
2003.
• Reader in Residence for the BBC Big Read project in association with
BookTrust, summer 2003.
• Instant poetry workshops at Worcester arts event, 2002.
• Reader in Residence for the Third Age, Worcestershire, 2002.
• Resident poet working in local hospitals, Cheltenham Literature Festival
outreach programme, 2002.
• Poetry workshops for parents and staff - schools in Swindon and nursery
school in Bristol, 2001.