PROJECT DIRECTOR
The Writing Squad - programme for writers aged 16-20
Bradford Square - an envelope of commissioned texts
Light Transports - writing commissions for commutersFoundland - live and web based UK/Canada writers' exchange
CONSULTANCY
Project Development for the Yorkshire Cultural Olympiad
Writing a short report on the feasibility of supporting small/fine presses for Creative Northants.
Writing a review of ten years of literature development activity for the East Midlands Literature Network
Developing a three year plan with Kate Wilkinson, LDO for Northamptonshire
Creating Audiences, frontline library development with YMLAC, ACE Yorkshire, and Rotherham and North Yorkshire Library Services
Live Literature Review for Arts Council England, North East
Strategic review with East Midlands Literature Development Officer Network
Facilitator on the British Council's Animating Literature seminar, Kingston Jamaica
Arts Council England, East Midlands consultation on Writers Centre/Agency
Arts Council England, Yorkshire visioning/planning for libraries
Facilitator Writer Development forum for CIDA
Writing Renewal for Interculture & Government Office for Yorkshire & the Humber
African Visions Tour evaluation for the Africa Centre
Leeds City Art Gallery on Tales from the City and Something of the Night
Community consultation for Manchester City Council on Manchester Cultural Strategy
Consultant for Leeds Libraries on their Beacon Status Seminars
The Redbrick Industries, publishing review East Midlands Arts
DIVA professional advisor Wakefield Readers Group
BUSINESS AND ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Business plan development for The Poetry Business
Business plan development Spread the Word the literature development agency for London
Team away-day facilitator Arts Council England National Office Dance Dept.
Applying creative writing techniques to business planning DARTS
Business plan development Flambard Press
Board away-day facilitator Manchester Poetry Festival
Organisational development for Lancaster Litfest
Organisational development for Queenspark Books
Board away-day facilitator Ilkley Literature Festival
Business plan development Inpress
Board away-day facilitator Poetry Book Society
Board away-day facilitator Lancaster Litfest
EDITORIAL
Writing workshop with www.dhagayso.org
Writing Renewal, not sat around watching bubbles, Interculture
Out of School Hours NOF Website, CAPEUK
Writing Renewal 1, Interculture
The Blackstuff by Val Cale, route publishing
One Northern Soul by Robert Endeacott, route publishing
Funding bid training Yorkshire Reader Development Network
Bid development Institute of Post Colonial Studies
Bid development for Calderdale Libraries
Bid development for Wrecking Ball Press
Facilitated 4 day course for writers and artists working in prisons, Lancaster Litfest
Overview of Literature Development, Advance Writers Seminar Leicester/Leicestershire
Marketing Yourself as a Writer training for NAWE & for Wordmarket, Cumbria
Reader development training pack Well Worth Reading
Advocacy training The Reading Partnership
EVENTS
Chair for Ulverston Readers Day and events at recent Ilkley Literature Festivals, and read my own work on Interland tour and at venues & festivals.
PANELS AND BOARDS
Literature Development Advisory Group Wordsworth Trust 2008 -
Poetry Business Advisory Board 2008 -
New Writing North Board 2005 -
Steering group for Moving Manchester AHRB project, Lancaster University 2004 -
Scottish Arts Council Advisor 2003 - 2006
Judge Raymond Williams Community Publishing Prize 2001
Mind the Gap Theatre Company Board 1989 -1994
Well Worth Reading Board from 2001 - 2002
Electronic Sheaf Advisory Editor
Arts Council of England Advisory Panels:
Writers in Prisons 1995-98
Live Literature Review Group 1997/8
Library Advisory Group to 1998-2000
WORK HISTORY
2000 - Freelance
2000 - 2005 Co-ordinator National Association for Literature Development
1991-2000 Literature Officer, Yorkshire Arts
1987-91 Director, Ilkley Literature Festival
1982-91 Freelance Theatre/Writing/Film
1982-85 Arts Officer, University of Durham
PAPERS AND KEYNOTES
The Leadership Debate NALD Expo, Kendal
Narrating the North Conference Lancaster University
New Yorkshire - Literature Language & Policy
Vaasa Littfest-KirJuhlat, Finland
New Yorkshire - Literature Language & Policy
Creative Cultures, Year of The Artist Conference, Leeds
The Politics of Translation
Diasporic Writing Conference, Swansea
Translation & Literature Development
British Centre for Literary Translation Symposium, UEA
Culture and Development
UNESCO, Decade of Development Conference, Lahore Pakistan
The New Aesthetics of Reading
Arts Council of England, Reading for Life Conference
Librarians as Cultural Agents
Library Association, Community Librarians Conference
It couldn't happen in Kirklees
National Association for Literature Development
The Writing Industry - Strategies for Writers
Creative Writing M.A. visiting lectures,
University of Northumbria, and Sheffield Hallam University
Urban Regeneration & Arts Education
British American Arts Association, London South Bank
