Writer, Performer and Facilitator

I'm a writer and workshop facilitator who is deeply invested in listening, and creating warm, welcoming spaces.    Please do get in touch for any writing commissions, workshops, one-on-one feedback sessions and English tuition.

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Facilitation work

 

I have facilitated workshops and courses: the Barbican, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Literature Works, Forward Prizes, Spread The Word, Barbican, Imperial Health Charity, National Youth Orchestra, the University of Kent, the Prince’s Teaching Institute, Writerz & Scribez, Lewisham Homes, Crisis Skylight Brent, Entelechy Arts, Headway East London, Anna Freud Centre for Children and Families, The Floating Classroom, etc.

 

Prizes

I won BBC Proms Young Poet and was runner-up for Times Young Poet. I am a Barbican Young Poet and won a London Writers Award. I came 3rd for the Cúirt New Writing Prize for Poetry  and am one of three authors shortlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize.

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Shortlisted for The White Review's Poetry Prize, Young People’s Laureate for London, Desperate Literature Prize, Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction and Poetry, Bath Flash Fiction, Sylvia Plath Prize and London Magazine Story Prize. 

 

Longlisted for Disquiet International Contest, Verve Poetry Competition, Alpine Fellowship and Mslexia Flash Fiction, and commended in Bristol Short Story Prize.  

 

Publications and Commissions

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I’ve published poems and stories in The Rialto, MAGMA, the anthology After Sylvia, the Eleven Stories anthology for Desperate Literature Prize in 2022, The London Magazine, The Kindling, Oxford Review of Books, TimeOut, Token Magazine and Tentacular.

 

I’ve been commissioned by the Barbican, Entelechy Arts, the London Women’s Clinic, Deptford Literature Festival,      Spread The Word, Hornsey Parish Choir, and Bedtime Stories for the End of the World.

 

I review literary fiction, essays, memoir and poetry regularly for The Big Issue.

 

Performances

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I'm a performance poet, sharing my work from memory at venues across the UK: such as the Barbican, Somerset House, Deptford Literature Festival, the Brighton Festival, Southbank Centre, the American Embassy, Queer Fringe, Cambridge Union, Cheltenham Literary Festival, Verve Poetry Festival, Walthamstow Garden Party, at Leeds Playhouse for Forward Prizes Ceremony, The Log Books Podcast and on Radio 3. 

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Education

 

Additionally, I studied English at the University of Oxford, and have worked as an English tutor for the past 10 years, supporting hundreds of learners across this time. I offer tuition for primary school pupils, 11+, GCSE and A-level students, as well as university students and applicants, alongside support for neurodivergent learners and creatives.

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