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CV

Experience:
Teaching Experience:
  • Kingston University - 2012-present
    • fiction
    • nonfiction
    • memoir
    • poetry
    • journalism
    • academic writing
  • London Metropolitan University - 2017-present
    • genre fiction - Creative Writing & English Literature
    • foundation year - Creative Writing & English Literature
  • City Lit - 2021-present
    • academic writing
    • creative writing
  • London City University - 2018-2019
    • creative & critical writing guest lecturer 
  • Chawton House - Lockdown Literary Festival
    • Found Poetry Workshop using the Early Women's Writing Archive
  • British Council - 2017-2018
    • writing for the internet and content management workshop facilitator
  • SouthWestFest - 2014 - 2017
    • community creative writing workshops
    • initiated & coordinated Stories of SW1 writing competition
Writing & Editing Experience
  • Highly Commended 26 Writer of the Year - 2022
  • all the sins
    • co-founder and co-editor of the literary arts magazine 
  • Collaboration with the Imperial War Museum and 26 - 2018
    • Comissioned to write a centena to mark 100 years since WWI Armistice
    • Subject was Countess Constance Markievicz and the Irish Easter Rising
    • Sales were in support of War Child
    • Winner Drum award for Writing in Design
  • Various companies (list available on request)
    • Features
    • Web content
    • PR materials
    • Newspaper articles
  • Emerging Writer in Residence - Kingston University
  • Short and long-listed for Blog Awards Ireland - 2012-2016
    • Best Arts & Culture Blog
    • Best of the Diaspora
  • Say It with a Poem - National Poetry Day 2016
    • Collaborative community event with the Museum of Futures and Lucy Furlong
  • Words, Noises, Pauses Annual Writing Competition 2014
    • Judge - flash fiction 
Readings, Performances & Conferences
  • Bloomsbury Radio February 2021
  • The Kingston Camarade 24 November 2018
    • with Alex Hales
  • Kingston Writing School reading, 2017
  • SouthWestFest Arts Awards Night, 2015
  • I Know What the Caged Bird Wrote: Finding the line between plagiarism & intertextuality, 2013
    • 6th International Integrity and Plagiarism Conference
  • Selling the Craft: Creative writing recruitment in the new higher education marketplace
    • Kingston Writing School 1st International Conference Pedagogy and Practice: Writing and Higher Education 2013


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and at the literary arts magazine that I co-edit: all the sins