At MTC Digital Creative, I am dedicated to fostering creativity through creative writing and poetry,

offering a range of programs and workshops designed to inspire both young and adult learners.

Teaching and Facilitating

With over 20 years of experience in the arts and education sectors, I have developed and delivered programs that encourage participants to craft their own visual and textual stories. My approach integrates advanced digital media techniques with traditional creative practices, providing a comprehensive learning experience.

Communal Projects with Schools

Year 6 Animated Poetry

In this project, Year 6 pupils (ages 10–11, equivalent to Grade 5 in the U.S. or the final year of primary school in many international education systems) transformed selected poems into animated short films. Students took on various roles, from directing to acting, bringing their interpretations to life through visual storytelling.

The project culminated in a Film Oscars evening, where these films were showcased to the school and local community, celebrating the students' creativity, collaboration, and technical skills in both writing and filmmaking.

One of the poems was the Jabberwocky.

Adult Collaborators and Community Projects

4-6 Week Interactive Online Creative Writing and Poetry Courses

I have designed interactive online courses that serve as open spaces for diverse groups to convene weekly, engaging in learning, experimentation, and discussion about creative writing and poetry. These workshops aim to provide tools that support and inspire participants' creative practices. Together, we explore the interplay between individual and collective experiences and their expression through text and film.

The workshop environment promotes non-hierarchical dialogue and embraces the unpredictability of new encounters, fostering a speculative space to contemplate the temporal aspects of creative writing and poetry. It offers a meditative setting for collective exploration.

Let’s pause, listen to words, move and write together.

.Courses in 2024 drew inspiration from the Dublin Art Book Fair, Ireland’s leading art book fair, and Wendy Erskine's theme Polyphonic:

‘Erskine writes, "multiple voices; multiple narratives; multiple perspectives: the polyphonic. Whether it’s simultaneous or sequenced, whether it’s in visual art, text or sound, let’s celebrate polyphony in all its complexity and contrariness. Let’s explore this non-hierarchical, democratic mode which allows for plurality of expression and response. The polyphonic, a challenge to the controlling, totalising ‘I'."‘

These courses encompass transnational feminisims and LGBTQIA+ topics, engage in decolonising practices, and harness the collective power and joy of creativity and nature. Sessions are enriched with inspiration from various artists, poets, and writers, alongside practical activities and specially crafted online resources. They are designed for individuals seeking mindfulness in daily life and tools to unlock their own creativity. Each week provides opportunities for participants to share thoughts, showcase their creative work, and pose questions.

Topics include:

  • Entering with joy - how to write with joy – practical activities

  • How to plant and write together - Vietnamese Immigration Garden at Documenta Fifteen 2022

  • Thinking kinship with Octavia E.Butler

  • How to navigate writing personal histories, looking to Saidiya Hartman for inspiration – ‘Wayward Lives, Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals’

  • How to write backwards - how to reorientate ourselves

  • Working with writing prompts to write within the session and to take beyond

  • How to structure narrative and holding readers

  • Delving into Point of View

  • Thinking with the work of Janet Malcolm, who has delved into biographical convention – starting with photos given, then using personal photographs as writing prompts (members to bring a photo to the session)

  • Exploring autopoesis, Denise Ferreira da Silva and ‘writing the self into being’

  • Exploring the stories of Irish writer Claire Keegan

  • Thinking with Irish artist Jesse Jones, how do we feel inspired by her work?

  • Nature and Haikus – lets write our own together

    Pathways with Indigenous poetry

  • Thinking with flows of water – exploring ocean as archive and flowing writing, looking at the work of Phoebe Boswell, 2022 writer in residence at Whitechapel Gallery

  • Embodied writing – activities within the session

  • Wake Work, with Christina Sharpe, how to deploy literacy terms as a methodology for resistance, attention and imagining

For more information or to enroll in upcoming courses, please contact me.