For nearly ten years, I have facilitated workshops and courses for organisations, charities and educational institutions including: 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, Dragon Cafe, ec.
I’ve led collaborative projects with artists, elders, audio describers, pupils, dancers, academics, gardeners, teachers, dancers and musicians, facilitating in schools, universities, galleries, museums, care homes, orchestras, hospitals, churches and shelters for people affected by homelessness. We have created beautiful anthologies of work and performances.
The passion, care and commitment I offer in all areas of my work has led to sustained relationships with these different organisations. I have taught creative writing to classes in primary settings, and as a tutor, work with primary, secondary and university students, and teachers on their study of English.
My workshops are crafted to fit the desired outcomes and needs of the participants I'm supporting – I consistently receive stellar feedback about the sensitive, generative and welcoming spaces I create, offering people the chance to embrace their creativity.
Examples of past projects:
April 2022 – now, Guildhall School of Music, and Drama
Ran various Courses for Young People, on creative writing. An anthology of the participants poems is readable here, and I'll be returning in Easter and Summer 2026 to run another course.
Now – June 2024 – Imperial Health Charity
Twice a month, I run creative workshops and one-on-one engagements by bedside with elderly patients, staff and visitors to St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London.
This can mean singing and dancing with people, listening to their experiences, and writing them poems on the spot responding to requests or honouring their life stories – responding to them in the moment and what their needs are.
July – August 2025 – Literature Matters, Poetry Cares at Scarlet House, Stroud
I ran 6 poetry workshops at Scarlet House care home, collaborating with elders who have memory loss.
March 2025 – Deptford Literature Festival via SPREAD THE WORD
Ran a workshop on queer tenderness for the festival and wrote an at-home guide for exercises people can do remotely.
February 2025 – Ministry of Stories
Ran a workshop for young people aged 11-14 on exploring identity through poetry.
July 2024 - The Cambridge Tradition
I co-tutored with Joseph Rizzo-Naudi, on a 2-week residential creative writing course for young people.
December- March 2024 – t.2 world
Running online craft workshops and offering weekly written feedback for a community writing platform, supporting international writers with their writing, of all genres and styles.
March 2025 - June 2023, Prince’s Teaching Institute
Ran 4 lectures for cohorts of secondary school teachers exploring ways to teach modern poetry, at conferences in London, Birmingham and Manchester.
January 2024, Spread The Word and Nature Nurtures
Ran workshops responding to the natural world, situated in Walthamstow Wetlands.
November 2023, London Library
I gave a short talk about my writing and teaching practice, representing the Barbican Young Poets.
September 2023, Forward Prizes for Poetry
Ran a focus group / collaborative workshop for different poetry collectives as part of the day events for the prize, about what they want the future of British poetry to look like.
June 2022, University of Kent's Schools of Laws, Sociology and Social Policy
Ran creative writing workshops and one-on-one feedback sessions during a residential writing retreat for academics/ researchers working in June 2022.
March and April 2022, Lewisham Borough of Culture Celebrations
Run workshops creating conversations with elder Lewisham residents and staff in four care homes and spoke to them about their stories of Lewisham, which I crafted into poems for them to take home.
January-June 2022, You Should Go To Everywhere: poems from Manley Court care home
For Deptford Literature Festival, Spread the Word commissioned me to work with the artists Zoë Gilmour and Charlene Low, running workshops with the care home team.
I crafted a booklet of poems celebrating the experiences of residents & carers through the collaboration of poetry, song, music, conversation & dance we made across various sessions.
This culminated in sharings within the care home space, the creation of poem postcards, and a poetry exhibition in the windows of a local GP clinic.
December 2021- April and January 2022 - National Youth Orchestra
Running writing and performance workshops with to create words and spoken moments during their concerts at the Barbican and Warwick Arts Centre, then the Southbank centre, broadcast on Radio 3.
May 2023, Entelechy Arts
Wrote poems in response to a trip with Lewisham elders to the Museum of Docklands London. This collaborative work featuring their words is called ‘History is in our bones and in the buildings’.
August 2021, The Albany, and Entelechy Arts
Wrote poems in response to a workshop for Lewisham elders run by Chelsea Physic Gardens. This collaborative work featuring their words can be read in the anthology ‘The Elders’ Garden of Verse’.
August 2021 – January 2020, OEE and Pembroke Tutors
Facilitated 275 poetry classes on ZOOM, working with students aged 7-16 years old, exploring various poets, and offering paragraphs of constructive feedback on hundreds of poems.
My pupil, Leandra Li was awarded as a Foyles’ Young Poet in 2020, for her wonderful poem ‘The Leshan Giant Buddha'.
Now - August 2021, The Floating Classroom
Running various poetry workshops on a canal boat with young people and their mentors.
April-June and June- July 2021: Meet Me at Home – Entelechy Arts and the Albany
Ran remote workshops via telephone working with 8 elders in Lewisham to talk about experiences of memories.
I collaborated with them to write poems, presenting their testimonies and words which are on the website. These were used in collaboration with the Meet Me Radio show on Resonance FM.
A poem I wrote in collaboration with elderly residents at Roseview, 'The Roseview Moon', was chosen as the basis of creative, artistic workshops at Greenvale School, for pupils with significant learning difficulties.
April 2021, National Youth Orchestra: Hope Exchange
Co–facilitating this project with poets Jacob Sam–La Rose and Gabriel Akamo, I worked independently with 40 young musicians to write poetry which was performed in various schools across the country.
January – June 2021, Writerz and Scribez with Dalgarno Trust
A virtual poetry project, running weekly workshops for 8 volunteers from the Dalgarno Trust, aged 21–75, for 5 weeks. I was invited back to run a second series of another 5 weeks in June 2021.
January 2021 and July 2020, Dragon Café, and Dragon Café in The City
2 workshops over ZOOM with the Dragon Café, an organisation supporting people with mental health.
September – August 2020, Barbican and Headway East London: Writing The Image
2 workshops over ZOOM with members and staff from HEL, an organisation that works with people affected by brain injury, writing in response to photographs from the Masculinities exhibition.
August 2020, Future Men and The Floating Classroom
Workshop in a community garden with 8 boys in Year 6, exploring well–being and creative expression.
April and June 2020, East London Tales
2 workshops over ZOOM, each supporting 25 participants to explore the home and dream worlds.
May 2020, Spread The Word, ‘I Once Was A Lion–Tamer’
Workshop over ZOOM exploring persona poetry with 10 participants. I wrote a page’s worth of feedback on each poem sent to me by 6 participants, generated out of exercises from my workshop.
May 2020 – August 2020, Barbican Community View: Young Barbican Nights
Created a guide for people to write poetry in response to Masculinities exhibition. Anthology here.
May 2020, Barbican and The Take–Over: Writing The Image
Workshop over ZOOM with 16–18 year olds, writing poems in response to the Masculinities exhibition.
April – July 2020, Writerz & Scribez: Poetry Gather–In
2 virtual poetry projects, running weekly workshops for participants across the UK, aged between 18–60, for 8 and 6 weeks. I gave detailed feedback on participants’ work, and we created a poetry zine.
January – March 2020, Writerz & Scribez: Living Archive, at the Albany and Lewisham Homes
A project working with elder 12 residents in an assisted living scheme, looking at poetry, creative writing, and art–making, in conjunction with Writerz & Scribez, the Albany and Lewisham Homes. This is the digital showcase.
April – May 2019, Barbican and Headway East London, co-facilitated with poets Tice Cin and Zahrah Sheikh
3 poetry workshops in conjunction with the Barbican and HEL, responding to Daria Martin’s exhibition Tonight The World. This culminated in 2 performances of our participant’s work at Barbican and HEL.
October 2018 – February 2020, Writerz & Scribez: Crisis Skylight Brent
10 weeks project, working with 10 adults affected by homelessness, ending with a performance, and the publication of a pamphlet of their poems, which I edited. I returned to run 4 workshops in 2020.
August 2018, Anna Freud Centre for Children and Families
Workshop supporting young people and their families to write about their experience of mental health.
