Category Archives: Uncategorised

Mystery Lunch – 29th November, Great Yarmouth Library

All welcome to this community lunch at Great Yarmouth Library to celebrate Yarmouth Mysteries funded by Arts Council England. Come and enjoy stories by St George’s Primary School children, plus micromysteries written by women of Great Yarmouth celebrating women in the Borough. Treasure hunt for children, plus writing resources from myself inspired by the… Read More »

The Art of Science – Reporting on Norwich Science Festival

It’s a pleasure to be back at the National Centre for Writing, helping a new cohort of young people supported by Norfolk Arts Trust prepare to report on Norwich Science Festival this month. It’s amazing how often science influences culture – and vice versa, so we are kickstarting our training by looking at inspiring things… Read More »

Feature published: Looking for Yoko Ono

My feature on YOKO ONO:LOOKING FOR is published this month in the August issue of Cambridge Edition. This city wide programme of installations, interventions, happenings appears in Cambridge until December 2019. Read my full feature online here, which takes a look at YOKO ONO: SKY PIECES at the Heong Gallery, as part of the programme… Read More »

Cambridge Folk Festival 2019 – Review

It’s Thursday night and there is a man-giraffe leaping around on stage, with electronica blasting across the frenzied audience – this feels more like a rave, than folk, but this is Tuung, returning to a festival where experimentation is the new normal, for a scene often stereotyped as ‘socks and sandals’. This is the 55th… Read More »

Yarmouth Mysteries – Stories by Children of Great Yarmouth at Great Yarmouth Library

Come and see these fantastic stories by two classes of children from St George’s Primary School at Great Yarmouth Library this weekend! The stories are literally full of creativity and talent, with colourful circus inspired detectives and their sidekicks all featuring ‘treasures’ passed on by older residents from Great Yarmouth. Special thanks to Time and… Read More »

‘Yarmouth Sublime’ Public Art Poem featured in The Guardian

Delighted that my poem Yarmouth Sublime, co-commissioned by Norfolk County Council and Vauxhall Links is mentioned in The Guardian, as part of a feature on contemporary art on the Norfolk Coast. Excellent to see Great Yarmouth’s contemporary art scene given such a good write up. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2019/may/31/norfolk-coast-comtemporary-art-scene-kings-lynn-great-yarmouth

Yarmouth Mysteries @ Time and Tide and Tolhouse Museum

It’s been a huge support and honour to be able to write my art mystery novel in Great Yarmouth thanks to Arts Council England. As part of the project, ‘Yarmouth Mysteries’, I’ve been helping Year 6 and Year 3 children at St George’s Primary School, helping them create their own mystery stories. We visited Time… Read More »

New poem ‘Persephone Wakes’ published in anthology, ‘Like The Sea I Think’

I have a new poem published in the anthology, ‘Persephone Wakes’, written in response to climate emergency, in a new anthology of marine fiction from Norfolk, ‘Like The Sea I Think’. It launches in the Book Hive, Norwich, May 28th 6pm. Persephone was the goddess of Spring and according to ancient myth, was kidnapped by… Read More »

Nominate Inspirational Women of Great Yarmouth – Call Out!

International Women’s Day is always a fantastic way to celebrate women in your life. This year, I’m calling for nominations for inspirational women of Great Yarmouth – who will be announced on Harbour Radio, plus inspire stories written by women in Great Yarmouth, with me later this Spring. It was fabulous to see so many… Read More »

‘The Enchanted Mirror’ – Text Art Poem at ‘Gazing Back’, Cambridge

I’m pleased to have a new poem ‘The Enchanted Mirror’ exhibited as a text art piece, as part of Gazing Back, a group show of women artists, curated by Jill Eastland and Faye Wright, responding to concepts of the ‘male gaze’. Says Faye, ‘I also wanted to exhibit work that provoked the audience to think… Read More »