THE THINGS WE CARRY
A flash project for Peter Spafford's Words at War festival at the Royal Armouries in Leeds where he was Writer in Residence. Five Writing Squad writers embedded for the day responding to the collection, the results are to be published shortly in the online Cadaverine.
Produced for Bradford's Stir festival, an envelope of found reading written by Tajinder Singh Hayer, Gavin Husband, Anne McNeill, Tariq Mehmood, Mandy Sutter and River Wolton, designed by Harmeet Sembi.
Now out from Smith Doorstop the Interland anthology of prose, poems, together with introductions, exchanges and photographs. You can buy your copy from Inpress or from Amazon. The anthology is the result of a two year collaboration as a writer with Ralf Andtbacka, Carita Nystrom and Marko Hautala from Ostrobothnia in Finland, and Kath McKay and Adam Strickson from Yorkshire, UK. We each wrote our own pieces, influenced by each other's work and each other’s countries, and have given readings in Ostrobothnia and Yorkshire.
A two year progressive writing programme for writers aged between sixteen and twenty with group workshops, one to one mentoring and a closed Squad website for sharing work and chat. We have just got the funding to work with our fourth cohort of writers while offering professional development and continuing one to one support to some of the writers we have been working with for the last six years. I set up the Squad in 2001 with Danny Broderick, and now act as Project Director and do one to one support of prose and script writers in the grad programme.
