Aoife

I have published four collections of poetry and a novel. I have over 15 years experience teaching creative writing and literacy in primary and secondary schools as well as universities. I have also taught internationally with the British Council. I have been poet in residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company and BBC Radio 4`s Saturday Live. I have a PhD in creative writing from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Availability: available 7 days a week but particularly keen to work at weekends

Willing to travel: 20 miles

Experience: Sept - Dec 2017 ‘Partition’ working with older people and students at the University of Huddersfield. National Archives, London
Sept - Dec 2016 The Writing Room workshops for young poets Apples and Snakes, London
Feb - Dec 2016 Grants for the Arts award for project with Maggie’s Centre Oxford
Arts Council England/Apples and Snakes
July - Aug 2016 Writer and Mentor for Opera Summer School Guildhall School of Music, France.
Jan – March 2016 Artist in residence at Beckenham Library Apples and Snakes, London
Oct 2015 – April 2016 Care and Comfort commission working with groups of older people.
National Archives, London
Oct - Dec 2015 Stoke Newington Heritage Mural Project,
William Patten Primary School/Hackney Archives, Stoke Newington
June 2015 Creative writing tutor in Lampton School using WWI archives National Archives
Feb - July 2015 Writer for ‘Sweat Factory’ libretto Youth Music Theatre UK, London
Feb - Sep 2015 Writer in Residence for ‘A Hard Choice’ exhibition Portsmouth Museum
Oct-Dec 2014 Writer in Residence for Artists Rifles Exhibition Gosport Gallery
Hampshire Council, Gosport
Aug - Jan 2014 Associate Lecturer on masters course in creative and life writing
Goldsmiths, University of London
May 2014 Writer/Lecturer at International Literary Festival in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi
British Council, Vietnam
Feb 2014 Imagine, literature festival for young people Southbank Centre, London
Jan 2014 ‘Winter Write’ performances and workshops for primary school students
Bladon Church of England Primary School, Oxfordshire
Nov 2013 Lecturer ‘Writing Place’ on using location and personal experience in writing
Foundation for International Education, London
Sept – Oct 2013 National Poetry Day working with primary school students
Southbank Centre, London
Sept - Nov 2013 Brent Civic Centre opening– fiction workshops with older people
Brent Council, London
Sept 2013 Escalator talent scheme workshops for the East of England focusing on nonfiction
New Writing Partnership, Norwich
Jan-July 2013 At Sixes and Sevens - workshops in secondary schools for concert celebrating Derry/Londonderry City of Culture City of London Festival/Apples and Snakes
Sept 2012 Writing Place – lectures on using location and personal experience in writing
Foundation for International Education, London
Aug – Sept 2012 Dickens News – writing project working with a mental health charity
Cooltan Arts/Charles Dickens Museum, London
Aug 2012 – Tutorials involving one to one feedback on poetry Poetry School, London
Aug 2012 Christmas Truce - mentoring Apples and Snakes, London
July 2012 Brent Young Poets Collective – workshops with young poets in preparation for slam
Brent Council, London
June 2012 Tender – workshops with young women at City Hall writing about domestic violence
Apples and Snakes, London
May 2012 Writing Our Place – conference for teachers interested in creative writing using ‘Writing Britain’ exhibition as inspiration British Library, London