Tag Archives: Inspirational

Winter News 2023

Winter Workshops As well as Women In Art writing classes starting up next Spring, it’s gorgeous to be running Winged and Wild Winter Wonderland workshops for children again on the Broads National Park in the Christmas holidays – morning and afternoon sessions available. We’ll be helping winter wildlife, making lanterns, ice sculpture, enjoying magical trails… Read More »

Review: Alfred’s Adventure in the Children’s City

Sometimes, there is nothing more lovely than seeing art inspiring the hearts and imaginations of children. Alfred’s Adventure in the Children’s City is a new children’s book with illustrations by Rose Feather and text by Imogen Alexander and Rose Feather, which will fill both young and old with delight. Collaged images of Kettle’s Yard House… Read More »

Celebrating Anna Sewell – New Poem, ‘Dark Horses’ + Free Women’s Creative Writing Workshops

Dark Horses She couldn’t leave the house. But still her incendiary kindness knew no bounds, hooves thundering, the first of its kind. Black Beauty. A legend, now but back then they called you powerless to do what you could do so well. Anna’s little thing, a trail blazer sold for twenty pounds breaking new ground,… Read More »

Lockdown Literacy: Nature Game Inspired by The Lost Words

‘Ever dreamed of being otter? That utter underwater thunderbolter, that shimmering twister…’ From ‘Otter’, in Robert Macfarlane’s ‘The Lost Words – A Spell Book’, inspired by nature words removed from the children’s dictionary. We are in lockdown and now teaching our children, while also trying to work and stay sane in challenging times. With one… Read More »

Titanic Times! Using the Art of Journalism to Inspire Children to Write.

This month I’m working as a writer with Great Yarmouth’s Time and Tide Museum to help children improve literacy through exploring The Titanic, with the ‘Art of Journalism’. Researching history through a combination of theatre, costume props at the museum visit, the children are creating their own stories to go into a newspaper, The Titanic… Read More »

New Feature: Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge

This three page feature in Cambridge Edition covers a feminist take on classical mythology, from artist Marian Maguire. Take a look at public programmes at one of Cambridge’s most hidden cultural platforms, the Museum of Classical Archaeology (MOCA), with an interview with curator Dr Susanne Turner. Photos include a snapshot of artist Loukas Morley’s work… 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 »

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 »