Workshops and Teaching

I run workshops for writers, from beginners to published poets, using a variety of techniques to stimulate writing. Some of my previous workshops are listed below. I am experienced at facilitating groups in various settings, and enjoy building confidence in those new to writing poetry.

2007

One day workshop at Under the Edge Arts, Wotton

Workshop at Buzzwords Cheltenham

2006

Workshop for staff and patients at Cotswold Care Hospice

2005

Stroud Arts Festival poetry workshop
Body Language poetry workshop for Lapidus South West group.

An account of this workshop is published in Lapidus Quarterly, summer 2005

2004

Stroud Arts Festival poetry workshop

2003

‘Starting to Write’ Arvon course with James Friel

2002

Workout with Words: a poetry project in a GP surgery

From this project I compiled and edited an anthology of poems by staff and patients: Doorways: Poems from May Lane Surgery published by May Lane Surgery, Dursley 2003.

For details see:
Workout with words—a poetry project in a GP surgery by Simon Opher and Emily Wills, published in The British Journal of General Practice, Volume 54 Number 499 February 2004 pages 156-7.