• Training sessions for The Reading Agency: project management and evaluatio; fton-line library staff training on working with young people; accreditation - 2008
• Co-opted as trustee/director of Ledbury Poetry Festival, 2008.
• Once this was a poet, my own one-act play, won: Best Supporting Actor, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Original Play and Best Play in the Gloucestershire One-Act Play Festival (2008). Also presented at Cheltenham Literature Festival, 2008, and booked for Ledbury Poetry Festical 2009
• Directing
plays with local company Tewkesbury Amateur Dramatic Society. Recent
prizewinning productions include Don’t give it another thought (2207),
Educating Rita (2006), and The Real Inspector Hound (2002), which we took
through three rounds of the All-England One Act Play Competition.
• Interviewed Terry Pratchett as part of Swindon Literature
Festival, 2002. “The best interview I have ever had,” said Terry
afterwards.
• Interviewed Magnus Magnusson as part of the Swindon
Literature Festival, 2003; Terry Pratchett at the mac in Birmingham, May 2003;
Michael Buerk and Simon Hoggart at Swindon Literature Festival, 2005; Andrew
Smith for Cheltenham Literature Festival, 2005.
• Guest
speaker / poet for Cheltenham University Humanities Department Induction
Course, October 2005.
• Led session at Inspiring Skills for Life Conference, York, March 2006.