This is one of those catch-up posts as it dawns on me how long it is since I last blogged! And why is that, you ask? The spring and summer were intense phases of teaching, along with my core editorial work. I realised yesterday that we are on the cusp of autumn and couldn't quite believe it. This post, then, is a photographic diary of my summer and of the amazing people I've met.
I taught a part-time course on getting started in writing from April onwards as part of the University of Oxford's Department of Continuing Education work.
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| At Winchester with my friend, writer Lisa Greaves |
In June I ran three workshops at Cornerstone Arts
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With the Festival's original founder,
the wonderful Barbara Large |
in Didcot, then paid my annual visit to teach at the
Winchester Writers' Festival.
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| Conference Director Judith Heneghan |
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| Speaker Helen Dennis |
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| The Stripe Theatre by night |
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| Teaching on the OUSSA programme |
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| With my OUSSA students |
In July and August, I taught on Oxford University's Summer School for Adults (
OUSSA) at Rewley House, followed by the university's
International Creative Writing Summer School for three weeks at Exeter College.
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| OUSSA students |
Along the way, I met, as I always do, writers who were starting out or more advanced, writers brimful of enthusiasm, motivation, curiosity and the desire to improve their craft. I read and gave feedback on writing that was poignant, dramatic, thoughtful, beautiful, gripping.
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Getting ready to teach at Exeter College
with fellow tutors Julie Hearn, Frank Egerton and Matthew Barton |
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| Exeter College, its lawns drier than we've ever seen! |
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| Tutors Susannah Rickards and Rachel Bentham |
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| Turl Street Oxford |
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| Exeter College Chapel |
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| Exeter College Chapel |
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| Exeter College Dining Hall |
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| Exeter College Chapel |
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I'll be back in the autumn with more musings about the world of books, an IGISIRI catch-up, and more interviews and guest-posts too. Till then, enjoy the rest of your summer!
This is one of those catch-up posts as it dawns on me how long it is since I last blogged! And why is that, you ask? The spring and summer were intense phases of teaching, along with my core editorial work. I realised yesterday that we are on the cusp of autumn and couldn't quite believe it. This post, then, is a photographic diary of my summer and of the amazing people I've met.
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