July 2006 - present

Freelance Creative Writing Tutor & Mentor

• Designing and delivering creative writing courses on poetry, memoir, short story, novel, autobiography, writer’s process, structure, how to handle the inner-critic, how to get published, impetus and motivation from beginners to the more experienced, for children and adults, including those with mental health issues and those who have been bereaved.

• Employers/Partners include: Edward’s Trust (charity serving bereaved children), The Ark (homeless charity), Tappin’ In (tap dance company), Shrewsbury Library, Oswestry Library, Market Drayton Library, Cardiff University, Aberystwyth University, Shrewsbury College of Art & Technology, Gateway Adult Education Centre (Shrewsbury), Coleg Harlech WEA, MIND (mental health charity), Powys Youth Service, Coleg Powys, Probation Service, residential homes, primary and secondary schools in Shropshire and Wales.

• Mentoring writers on a one-to-one basis, giving editorial advice and coaching throughout the process of writing a book up to the point of publication.

BOOKS PUBLISHED

sea refuses no river (poetry pamphlet) Fly on the Wall Press (2019)

Fountain of Creativity: Ways to nourish your writing Victorina Press (2019)

Off the wall (poetry pamphlet) Indigo Dreams Publishing (2016)

The Virgin & The Whore (novel)Vanguard Press (2003)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHOLOGIES

PUBLISHER ‘84’: male suicide anthology Verve Poetry Press, Ed. Helen Calcutt

Ripening Cherries: haiku, tanka and haibun Offa’s Press, Ed. David Bingham

Me Too Fair Acre Press, Ed. Deborah Alma

Anthology of Yorkshire Poetry The Valley Press, Ed. Miles Salter

The Brown Envelope Anthology Culture Matters, Ed. Alan Morrison

The Everyday Poet, Poems to Live By Michael O’Mara Press, Ed. Deborah Alma

Wales/Cameroon poetry anthology Hiraeth / Erzolirzoli Arts Council Wales, Ed. Eric Ngalle Charles

Free Your Mind anthology Ed. Natasha Benjamin

Wenlock Poetry Festival Anthology 2016 Fair Acre Press

Bollocks to Brexit Civic Leicester, Ed. Ambrose Musiyiwa

Writing for Resilience by Charmaine Pollard

Persona Non Grata Fly on the Wall Press, Ed. Isabelle Kenyon

Journey Planner Cinnamon Press, Ed. Rowan B Fortune

Bread & Roses Poetry Award Anthology 2018 Culture Matters

Different Worlds Aberystwyth University Press

Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Competition Anthology 2019 Shepton Mallet Festival, Judge David Morley

A Scream of Many Colours Poetry Space, Ed. Moira Andrew

In Terra Pax Cinnamon Press, Ed. Rowan B Fortune

In the sticks Offa’s Press

Black Lives Matter Civic Leicester, Ed. Ambrose Musiyiwa

SINGLE POEMS IN MAGAZINES Envoi Amaryllis (Poetry Swindon) London Grip Time Haiku Bare Fiction Picaroon Poetry The Lampeter Review Postcard Poems High Window Literary Journal Riggwelter Severn Hospice Laldy Scottish Lit Journal Unpsychology Algebra of Owls Buddhist Poetry Review Brevis Women Who Roar Atrium International Times Smeuse Blithe Spirit Journal Silver Birch Press High Green Dawn Writers’ Cafe Tears in the Fence Algebra of Owls The Lake Riggwelter Honey & Lime i am not a silent poet Contemporary Haibun Online Three drops from a cauldron Rat’s Ass Review Ink Sweat & Tears Clear Poetry Shrewsbury Stanza Kind of a hurricane Scintilla (USA) The Fat Damsel English Chicago Review Postcard Poems & Prose Mag. Firestack Publications Obsessed with Pipework English Chicago Review Sarasvati Amygdala (USA) The Ofi Press Galway Advertiser The Light Ekphrastic Bangor Literary Journal

Elizabeth attended the MA in the Teaching and Practice of Creative Writing at Cardiff University from 2005-2006. In her teaching of undergraduates, she has been conscientious in preparation and impressive in execution. Her delivery is calm, focused, enthusiastic and empathetic. She is aware of the needs of the whole group and clearly works towards achieving set outcomes, yet she is also sensitive to individual diversity and is flexible in her delivery. She is particularly interested in the pedagogy of workshopping ? its benefits, limits and dangers. She ensures that all the members in groups she teaches feel secure in the workshopping situation, guaranteeing that such sessions build (rather than destroy) confidence.

Throughout the MA course Elizabeth worked well to deadlines and was reliable and dependable. She was pleasant and courteous to students and staff alike, and this engaging manner extended into those classes she taught. Despite her accessibility and warmth, once in the teaching environment, she blended this approachability with professionalism and calm authority.

Lecturer in Creative Writing, Cardiff University

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