Emma Beynon By The Wye, Aberedw, Builth Wells, Powys. LD2 3UH. 07722170782 [email protected]
https://emmabeynoncreativewriting.com
Creative Writing Facilitation/ Fundraising / Evaluation / Teaching / Writing
From November 2020 to present: leading creative writing workshops for Health and Wellbeing on Zoom for Radiate Arts https://www.radiatearts.co.uk as well as leading volunteer workshops for Mid and North Powys Mind and Pontypridd High School.
November 2020 – March 2021: leading a Social Prescribing Creative Writing Project as part of Open Ground Writing for Judges Lodgings’, Presteigne. https://emmabeynoncreativewriting.com/open-ground
February to December 2020 : Fundraising for Shakespeare Link https://www.shakespearelink.org.uk successful applications include: Arts Council Wales, D’Oyly Carte and Gwendoline Margaret Trust.
January – February 2020: leading song writing workshops for pupils at Brecon High School, Wales.
November 2019: leading Creative Writing Workshops for staff and pupils in Sadhguru School, Kibale Uganda.
September 2013 to 2019 Project Manager Caban Sgriblio, Peak, https://peak.cymru/caban- sgriblio/ leading creative writing workshops for young people to develop health and well- being throughout Powys and The Valleys. This project was funded by BBC Children in Need. Duties Included:
• Leading creative writing workshops for young people in the community • Collaborating with artists and film makers in the development of cross arts provision • Project evaluation & report writing, fundraising, hosting arts events and interviewing writers
January 2008 –2012 May: Creative Writing Project Manager for The Write Team Bath Festivals, funded by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
• Collaborating with writers and teaching creative writing & drama workshops in primary and secondary schools in Bath & North East Somerset. • Leading creative writing training for teachers in schools and university. • Initiating & raising funds for project
Research conducted by Exeter University http://bathfestivals.org.uk/wp content/uploads/2013/08/The-Write-Team- Creativity-Confidence-and-Challenge.pdf
Creative Writing for Adults
• March 2017 – 2020: Leading Creative writing residency with award winning YA writer Jenny Valentine in Iceland with Museum of Everyday Life, Isafjordur, Western Fjords, Iceland. https://everydaylife.is/workshops-2020/
• 2014 - Open Ground: Writing in Unusual Places with award winning author Helena Attlee venues include: National Trust Properties, Farmers’ Lavender, The Sidney Nolan Trust and Gardens throughout Wales.
• June 2014 – March 2015; Writing Our lives Co-facilitator with Christina Thatcher at Butetown History & Arts Centre project designed to encourage BME women, refuges and asylum seekers to write about their lives
Creative Writing for Young People
• March – July 2018: Outdoor Creative Writing Residency at Priory Church in Wales School, Brecon. • June 2017: Creative Writing Workshops for Young people at the Hay Festival. • July 2016 – Oxford Lieder Festival; developing with primary school pupils a libretto a school opera at the Festival. • November 2014 - writing residency for Year 1 & Year 2 Pupils at Mount Street Infants School, Brecon. • November 2014 – January 2015 for Tros Gynnal Plant/Powys Young People’s Advocacy – using Creative Writing to develop understanding issues facing young children in Powys.
Writing and Publications • Sailing to Greenland, Marine Quarterly (Spring & Summer 2018) • Contributing poem to `Watermarks’: Writing By Lido Lovers & Wild Swimmers (2017) • Making Poetry Happen Transforming the Poetry Classroom Editor(s): Sue Dymoke, Myra Barrs, Andrew Lambirth, and Anthony Wilson. Bloomsbury. (2015) • Svalbard Diary, Marine Quarterly (Spring 2014) • Poetry published in Globe Theatre programme (2013) • ‘Write Stuff’ TESPRO, TES. April 6 2012. • ‘Navigation above 80 degrees North’ Classic Boat (2012) ‘Sailing in Svalbard’ The Wave (2008)
Qualifications • 2002 – 2003 MA in Education, University of Bath. • 1994 – 1995 PGCE, University of Wales, Swansea. • 1992 – 1994 BA (Hons) English (2:1), University of Wales, Swansea. • 1982 – 1983 Foundation Course in Art & Design, University of Brighton.