CAREER HISTORY

2007 - Project Director, Creative Future  - A not for profit organisation for the training and promotion
         of marginalised artists and writers. See www.creativefuture.org.uk for futher info.

2005 - Project Manager, First Base Arts Project, Brighton
2007 Delivering, administrating & fundraising for a 3 year, 3 days a week arts project, including the supervision of 11 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 on carnival 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.

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

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

2008-             Chapter & Verse, The Literacy Consultancy mentoring scheme
2009              Novel, Cane Hill, mentored by Sara Maitland

2005              Writing Monologues. New Writing South
                    Taught by Annie Castledine.  Monologue, DHW, performed by Gillian Wright
                    (Jean Slater, Eastenders) and directed by Annie Castledine, Nightingale Theatre 2005

2003 – 2004    PGCE in post compulsory education. University of Brighton.

2003              Writing for Radio New Writing South
                    Taught by Paul Ashton, Development Manager of BBC Writers Room

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.

2001              Mentored by Peter Bowker
                    through production of Northern Flair, a TV calling card script.                  

2001              Writing for TV. Arvon
                    Taught by BAFTA winners Peter Bowker (Desperate Romantics) &
                    Debbie Horsfield (Cutting It)

2000 ­­- 2001     MA Creative Writing. University of East Anglia.
                     Taught by Andrew Motion (Poet Laureate 1999-2009) & Michelle Roberts 

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.