CAREER HISTORY

2006 - Director, Creative Futures  - A not for profit organisation for the training and promotion
        of marginalised artists and writers.

2005 - Project Manager, First Base Arts Project, Brighton

      Delivering, administrating, & fundraising for a three year, three days a week arts project, including the supervision of 10 staff.

Freelance Creative Writing Tutor, BBC Southern Counties Radio, Brighton City College, New Writing South, QueenSpark Books & Brighton & Hove City Council

          Devising & delivering 6 to 20 week courses across Brighton

          Writer, Luton Carnival Arts Development Trust Education Pack

             Wrote main text and provided many photographs and illustrations for this extensive
           education pack for Luton's schools.

Mentor LAPIDUS  Brighton

Providing guidance for establishing therapeutic writing groups

2004–  Administrator New Writing South, Brighton

2006   Organising training & providing support for writers across the South East.

 

2003 - Writer in Residence First Base Day Centre, Brighton

2005   Facilitating a writing group for homeless & vulnerable adults.

 

2003 - Travel Writing Lecturer Adult Education, City College, Brighton.

2005   Devising & delivering 20 week travel writing courses to adults of all abilities.

 

2001 – Writer/Facilitator Big Issue, Brighton

2005   Teaching creative writing, art and photography to homeless adults.

 

2002  -  IT Tutor, City College, Brighton
        Teaching Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Quark, Publisher, Illustrator,
        Dreamweaver & Front Page.

2000-  Student MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

2001

1998- Freelance writer. Published in Firsthand Anthology, Rough Guide’s Women Travel & a variety of international magazines. Co-writer of carnival education pack for Luton Carnival Development Committee.

 

1997- Author. Rough Guide to Trinidad and Tobago. Research, writing, photography, cartography, editing and proof reading.

1996 - Carnival Artist/Supervisor. Callaloo Carnival Company. Trinidad.

1999   Construction and supervision of carnival costume production.

 

1994 - Carnival Artist. Perpetual Beauty Carnival Camp Mobile Unit. London.

1996   Costume construction & teaching carnival construction methods

 

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

2003 – 2004    P.G.C.E in post compulsory education. University of Brighton.

2002 – 2003    Adult Education Certificate C&G 7407. City College. Brighton.

2002              Basic Skills Certificate. C&G 9281. City College. Brighton. 

2002              CLAIT Plus, ECDL, Photoshop, Quark, Dreamweaver.
                    City College. Brighton.

2000 ­­- 2001     M.A. Creative Writing. University of East Anglia. 

1991 – 1994    BSc (Econ) Government and History. (2:1)
                    London School of Economics. London University.

1990 – 1991    Art Foundation Diploma.
                    Jacob Kramer Art College. Leeds.
                    Specialism: photography and video. Upper Credit.

1984 – 1990   5 A Levels (A,B, 3C's) & 8 G.C.S.E's (7A's & B)
                   Roundhay High School. Leeds.

Interests          Writing fiction since 1997 and radio/TV scripts since 2000.
                       Work focuses on the marginalised and their views on
                       society. A keen photographer.