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Workshops, readings, events, papers...
Bricolage: Armchair Artist in Residence Jan - April 2016 The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury Residency
responding to objects in the museum's collection. Read the blog here! @Beaneyfrontroom
How
to have ideas: exercises to get you writing 31st October
2015
Canterbury Festival Writing Workshop An intensive practical
workshop on generating ideas for fiction and poetry. Bring a notebook and pen, and prepare to be inspired... Hosted by SaveAs Writers and The Canterbury Festival.
'Re-Enchanting the Academy' conference 25th - 27th September 2015 Canterbury Christ Church University Presenting an academic paper on walking and writing entitled 'The Walking Dead, or why psychogeography
matters'. Constructing a labyrinth in the campus grounds and leading a workshop: 'The labyrinth, contained walking,
creative thinking'. Poetry Reading: The Art of Walking 9th August 2015 The Jolly Sailor,
Canterbury An evening of poems from my new chapbook, hosted by Save As Writers. 'Place-Based
Arts' conference 29th May 2015 C21, University of Brighton Presenting an academic
paper on my practice-based teaching and research in psychogeography and alternative walking entitled 'Walking against
the current: generating creative responses to place'. 'Beyond the Sheets' conference 4th April 2014 Goldsmith's Writers'
Centre Presenting an academic paper on my novel Eden
entitled 'Sex in Eden: reading, writing and inhabiting fictional worlds'. Writing Short Fiction: Study Day 16th November
2013 University Centre, Tonbridge Exploring the art of
short fiction, from microfiction to the long short story. Discussing and experimenting with short story techniques. Suitable
for beginners and experienced writers. Writing a
novel: from idea to edit 19th October 2013
Canterbury Festival Writing Workshop, The Jolly Sailor,
Canterbury A two-hour workshop on novel writing, hosted by SaveAs Writers and The Canterbury Festival. 'Fashioning
the Fictive' conference
11th
October 2013
Universite Paul-Valery,
Montpellier Presenting an academic paper on my novel
Eden entitled 'The Writer's Hunger: considering a novel in progress'.
Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2013 3rd October 2013 The Dominican
Priory, Canterbury Reading my poem 'precis', shortlisted
for this year's Canterbury Festival prize. Generating Ideas for Fiction:
Study Day
2nd March
2013
University
Centre, Tonbridge
A day of practical advice and exercises to inspire any one
wishing to write short stories, flash fiction or extended prose fiction.
Save As Writing Competition 2012 Reading and awards evening
10th February
2013
The
Jolly Sailor, Canterbury
Announcing the winners and reading my judge's report for the Save As competition, for which I read
sixty short stories, and selected five. Plus reading from my own work, including my novel in progress, Eden.
Upon
a Painted Ocean
Exhibition, performances and residency
17th - 22nd August 2012
The Old Look Out Gallery, Broadstairs
A joint exhibition and residency with James Frost,
artist, puppeteer and art history and theory lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church (aka my husband). The exhibition explored
visual, performance and text-based responses to the sea and its flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict, and in particular the
wrecks of the Goodwin Sands, the Great Ship Swallower. More info and images on my blog. The Old Look Out Gallery
John Taylor's Journey ReAuthoring performance
9th August
2012
Light
Vessel 21, Gillingham Pier
Another ReAuthoring venture, this time aboard the floating arts venue LV21. Five writers performed
and installed texts as part of Disarticulate, a Cultural Olympiad project. I debuted my boat-themed short story
John Taylor's Journey, created for the event. Other ReAuthors on the day were Will Sutton, Kay Syrad, S J Butler and Sarah
Salway. ReAuthoring Project
Cut up
Residency & Installation
Whitstable Oyster Festival
Wednesday 25th July 2012, 3-8pm
Another ReAuthoring outing, pairing me up with independent
shop Buzz 4 Wool in Whitstable, Kent. Working with words and fabric, and armed with scissors, pins and pens, I created
a cut-up text in the shop. Visitors and customers were able to contribute words to the patchwork, view text installations
and take away a literary snippet. The installation has remained in the shop since. More on this, the after-party and
other writers scribbling, reading and performing in shops on the ReAuthoring website.
Lounge Stories
ReAuthoring Writing Residency
5th - 9th July 2012
Lounge on the Farm Festival, Merton Lane, Canterbury
I was one of six ReAuthoring writers let loose on the unsuspecting public at this boutique arts festival. Roaming the field,
I collated and appropriated overheard conversations, found text, sights, sounds and smells, working these into flash fiction
and poetry. To read the results, view my posts on tumblr or visit the Festivalstories.org portfolio.
Lone Broadcast
Spoken word sound installation & broadcast
31st
March - 11th April 2012
Untitled BCN, Barcelona
A fruitful collaboration with sound and radio artist Magz Hall. Magz used my text and voice in
this collaborative piece, which premiered at a student and staff exhibition for Canterbury Christ Church University in this
funky little independant gallery in Barcelona. The piece is also being broadcast on Boat Radio (DAB) over the summer of 2012. UntitledBCN
Experiments in Poetry:
Day School
10th March 2012
University of Kent, Canterbury
An experimental
approach to creative writing, this day school will draw on techniques from iconic poetry movements, exploring randomness,
chance and appropriation in writing.
Facts & Fiction: Talk and Workshop
Thursday
17th November 2011
Deal Writers Group
An evening with local writers discussing how to be creative with factual material. How far
should you research for fiction, and how do you avoid sounding like a text book?
Generating
Ideas for Fiction: Day School
12th November 2011
University of Kent, Canterbury
A day of practical advice and exercises to inspire any one wishing to write short stories, flash fiction or extended
prose fiction.
Fludde
An Evening of Spoken Word
Mon 21st November 2011, 7pm
Faversham, Kent
My poem After the Flood was selected for inclusion in a handmade, limited
edition anthology of words and visual art for the Fludde festival of arts. I read the poem at one of the festival events,
when the publication was launched. Fludde
Millenium
of the Sack of Canterbury
Canterbury Festival umbrella event
Sunday 16th October
Canterbury, Kent
My poem Unready
was been selected for publication in an anthology marking 1000 years since the Siege of Canterbury. I read the poem at a Canterbury
Festival umbrella event on 16th October 2011, where it was awarded
second prize in the 'Save As' Festival competition. Here's what judge Christopher Hobday had to say about the
poem: "[This] poem managed to make the events
[of the siege] uniquely personal. It didn't just tell us what happened; it seemed to climb inside the head of one of the
principle protagonists. It did this with a grace, a richness and an impact that draws you in, delights you and convinces you
of its own truth. When a poet can build a little world, make you live in it, and then leave you feeling like it wasn't
sleight of hand, this is real talent."
The Siege of Canterbury anthology is available for purchase.
Transitions
Anthology
of writings for the Folkestone Triennial 2011
launch Fri 2nd Sept 2011
Folkestone, Kent
My
poem Nautica, inspired by research into the legends of Jason and the Argonauts, appears in the anthology Transitions,
published by Folkestone-based Pavement Pounders. The anthology includes articles, tales and essays on the Triennial's
theme of A Million Miles from Home.
for more on the project and where
to obtain a copy visit Pavement Pounders
Crossings*
Live Lit Performance
Sat 27th August 2011
Herne Bay, Kent
From the intriguing world of
The Reauthoring Project, who seek innovative ways of transforming the traditionally dull author reading into something interactive
and multi-sensory. Our experiments in performance and live literature over a workshop weekend came to fruition at Herne Bay
Reauthored on Saturday 27th August. I was one of the five authors giving live presentations of reauthored work in outdoor
locations as part of the Herne Bay Festival. Site-specific performance, challenged by weather and the whims of the public,
with the sea roaring a few feet away - why not?
3 performances during the afternoon, plus an open forum
for more details visit The Reauthoring Project
* Crossings is a performance piece drawn from my poem (I
am the first), which appears in the Canterbury Festival Poetry Anthology 2011.
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