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Freelance Writer - short stories, poetry, performance, creative writing workshops, articles, arts administration
Windows Poetry Project writer: click here for workshop booking enquiries
Chair of Trustees, Black Arts Alliance
Executive member, Index NW small presses network
MA(Distinction) in Ethnic Studies, University of Liverpool
Co-ordinator: 2005 Cains Liverpool Irish Festival
Facilitator: British Council Connecting Futures: Maps and Metaphors East of England / Bangladesh young writers' exchange, December 2005 - February 2006
Published work
Collection of short stories, A Manner of Speaking, published by Spike Books, ISBN 09518978 8 8 (September 2004)
Towelling Elbow Patch in 'Maps and Metaphors: writings by young writers from Bangladesh and United Kingdom', published by British Council Bangaldesh, ISBN 984-32-3342-5). Led workshops to devise the work and compiled the anthology.
Into Into in 'Dead Good Poets Society: The Book' (Headland Press, September 2005)
Child 2 in 'September Stories' (Comma Press, September 2004)
Microdrama in 'Liverpool Stories vol. 1' (Comma Press, June 2004)
Shouty Nut Soul in ‘Poetry Seen’ (Independent Paper plc, 2002)
Giving Away Soap published on internet by Rhine Poets collective, Cologne (2001).
The Incredible Joe Morello in ‘One City, Many Voices’ (Mersey Film and Video Millennium Commissions, 2000). Recruited other contributors to the publication; facilitated workshops to devise the writing.
Shouty Nut Soul recorded for ‘Reclaiming The City’ CD (The Yellow House, 1999)
Out Vout A-Go-Go in ‘Fertile Ground’ (Runnagate Press, USA, 1996)
Woodensack, Mimic, Into Into in ‘Asian Voices Asian Lives - The Next Generation’ (Writing Liaison Office, 1994)
Wrote and illustrated AmeriKKKa and the Blues People in graphic novel anthology ‘Images From The Other Side’ (Amauta publications 1992).
Five Minutes in ‘Love and All That Jazz’ (Marie Curie Cancer Cure, 1992)
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Performance
Solo poetry and short story performances in multiple venues in Liverpool and Cologne (1993-2002), in Bangladesh (2005) and Nigeria (2006).
Asian Voices Asian Lives - founder/member and facilitator of collective of British Asian writers and performers since 1992. Performances of poetry, music, comedy and live art, as well as workshops, in Liverpool, Bradford, London, Sheffield, Preston, Slough, Huddersfield, Oldham, Tameside, Coventry, Leicester, Batley, Windsor on BBC TV’s Network East and live on BBC Radio Four’s Loose Ends. Key Asian Voices productions: performances at Bradford Mela (1993-5); Showcase (Unity Theatre, 1994), In Performance In Celebration (Unity Theatre, 1995), Cooking Up A Storm (national tour 1996-7), Departures (Bluecoat Independence Live Art commission, 1997), Monsoon Barbecue (National Street Art Festival commission, Brouhaha Festival Liverpool, 1999), Kidder (in development for Unity Theatre, 2003)
The Spark Collective - founder/member of theatre, later live art collective since 1988. Key productions: Rat’s Alley (performer, 1988), Never On A Sunday (writer/performer, 1988), Moaning In The Throat Of A Camel (writer/director, 1989), In Dreams (texts, 1997), Strange Attractor (texts, 1999), Project Space (texts, 2001), 2.64 (development, 2002)
The Yellow House - regular collaborations with youth theatre collective. Key collaborations - Rap Et Ecriture international youth hip-hop exchange (workshop leader/performer; Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1997), Exchange (workshop leader; Gdansk, Poland, 1999), Looking For Freedom (workshop leader, groups from Liverpool, Poland and Czech work: Republic; Liverpool 2001)
Dislocation Sermons - ACE Year Of The Artist commission with musician/composer Phil Hargreaves, developed pieces blending literature with improvised music for performance and recording by an augmented Frakture Big Band (Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, 2001)
In My Father’s House - lead artist and performer for Black Arts Alliance production with 100 Black men appearing on or represented on stage (Contact Theatre, Manchester, 2001)
Education + Academic
Creative writing teaching at Liverpool Hope University (2003) and University of Central Lancashire (2006)
Writer working alongside rappers for Activate Theatre Word Up project, working with schoolboys aged 10-14, in Wirral, Cheshire (Sept 2006 - present).
Mentor on British Council / Lancaster University Crossing Borders project, providing on-line creative writing support to young writers in East Africa (Sept 2003 - present)
Extensive experience of leading creative writing workshops in primary and secondary schools, working freelance, and through Windows Poetry Project, Black Arts Alliance, Asian Voices Asian Lives, Greenhouse Multicultural Project, Catalyst Dance and Drama (1993-2002).
Employed by BluecoatConnect education outreach project to develop performance projects with marginalised young people (1997-2001)
Course Tutor for Asian Voices Asian Lives creative writing course for British Asians, University of Liverpool Continuing Education Department (1993-6)
Presentations at seminars and conferences in Liverpool, Manchester, Hebden Bridge and London.
Broadcast Training for Ariel Trust production courses (1993-6)
Miscellaneous
Presented music programmes on community radio stations in Liverpool (1990-6)
Jazz columnist for What Goes On listings magazine (1991-3)
Publisher of Kandycricket.com Sri Lankan cricket website as part of Rivals internet network of sports sites (2000-2002)
Chair of National Association for Literature Development (1995-7)
Recruited 50+ poets for three-hour performance with simultaneous broadcast on Hearing Is Believing experimental arts radio station (May 1995)
Fund-raised, programmed and developed team managing inaugural Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival, as part of Bluecoat Events Programmer job (2002-4)
Participated in public art interventions Urban Vimbuza II, Zong, Sold Down The River and Humanity Carpet (1992-2002)
Employment
March 2004 - present: Self-employed Writer
July 2005-October 2005: Festival Co-ordinator, Liverpool Irish Festival
March 1998-February 2003: Events Programmer, Bluecoat Arts Centre
January-June 2003: Writer-in-Residence, Liverpool Hope University College
December 1996-March 1998: Arts Development Officer (cultural diversity) Liverpool Leisure Services Directorate
April-November 1996: Secondment as Events Officer, Bluecoat.
November 1994-April 1996: Writing Liaison Officer (Indian sub-continent communities) Liverpool Leisure Services Directorate
October 1994-May 1995: Station Manager, Hearing Is Believing experimental arts radio station, Video Positive ‘95.
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