Residences

Residencies - as Writer / Poet
• Writer in Residence for older people in association with Ledbury Poetry Festival, 2008-9.
• Writer in residence, Shrewsbury prison, 2008-2010.
•Writer in residence for Apollo project, Cheltenham Hospital Oncology Unit, 2008-2011.
• Poet in Residence for Wychwood Festival, 2008.
• Writer in Residence with Oncology Inpatients, Cheltenham Hospital, spring 2008.
• Writer in Residence with BBC / Booktrust Everybody Writes project; this involved running a writing club for year 6 pupils, and writing notes for a BBC website on running creative writing clubs for children and young people.
• Writer in Residence with Oncology Outpatients, Cheltenham Hospital, as part of the Gloucestershire Art-Lift arts-in-health project, 2007.
• Writer in Residence for older people in association with Ledbury Poetry Festival, 2006-7.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Writer for NESA JustArt combined arts project, working with young offenders and victims, February - June 2004.
• Creative writing tutor with Smoking Cessation Group, Cirencester, October-November 2003.
• Resident poet in local schools as part of Stroud Diversity Festival, May-June 2003.
• Creative writing tutor for seniors, Chipping Norton Theatre, 2002-2004.
• Writer / animateur for schools' songs project with the Brodsky String Quartet, autumn 2002 - spring 2003.
• Resident poet working in local hospitals, Cheltenham Literature Festival outreach programme, 2002.
• Resident poet with a Bristol nursery school as part of the Bristol Education Action Zone project (autumn 2001).

• Reader in Residence with a group of carers, in association with Gloucestershire Libraries and a Dursley doctors' surgery, spring 2006.
• 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.
• Reader in Residence and IT project officer for older people in Gloucestershire, September 2004 - May 2005.
• Professional reading group leader, Chipping Norton Theatre, 2003-2005.
• Reader in Residence for the BBC Big Read project in association with BookTrust, summer 2003.
• Reader in Residence for Young People, Gloucestershire, 2002-2003.
• Reader in Residence for the Third Age, Worcestershire, 2002.
• Writer in Residence for older people in association with Ledbury Poetry Festival, 2008-9.
• Writer in residence, Shrewsbury prison, 2008-2010.
• Writer in residence for Apollo project, Cheltenham Hospital Oncology Unit, 2008-2011.
• Poet in Residence for Wychwood Festival, 2008.