CREATIVE
WRITING COURSE LEADERS
We offer a
range of Creative Writing courses, all of which
are led by experienced writers.
JUDI GOODWIN ('Writing and Selling Features'
and 'Unleash Your Writing Power')
Judi Goodwin is a
journalist and trainer with wide experience in
both print and broadcast media. Judi has been a
regular feature writer for national and regional
newspapers, and also a freelance broadcaster for
BBC Radio. She takes a holistic approach to
teaching, offering individual coaching to help
students overcome their personal hurdles. She
now specialises in home interest and lifestyle
journalism, and trains journalists and
professional writers in
London
and abroad.
STEVE VOAKE ('Writing for Children
and Young People')
Steve Voake
is a successful children’s author whose books
have sold all over the world. He is currently
Senior Lecturer in Writing for Young People at
Bath Spa University and a regular tutor for The
Arvon Foundation. His books include ‘The
Dreamwalker’s Child’, ‘The Starlight
Conspiracy’, ‘Blood Hunters’ (Faber &
Faber) and the ‘Daisy
Dawson’
series (Walker Books) for younger readers, which
became a bestseller for Scholastic Book Club in
the U.S.
'Insect Detective',
a non-fiction picture book about insects, was
published by Walker Books in November 2009. Steve
is currently working on a new novel for Faber
and a new series for Walker Books, the first of
which, ‘Hooey Higgins and the Shark’, was
published in March 2010.
NICK
OLDHAM ('Crime Writing')
Nick Oldham is a
retired police officer and crime writer
who started writing while he was still in the Lancashire
police force and had his first novel published in 1996.
Since then, he has had a total of
15 crime novels
published and has recently been commissioned to write
four more. His latest novel, 'Hidden Witness', is due for
publication later this year.
ADAM
STRICKSON ('Writing about Paxos')
Adam Strickson
is a Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing at the
University of Leeds, where he is also in the
third year of a part-time PhD in ‘Adaptation and
Libretto’ in collaboration with Opera
North. He has written plays for several theatre
companies and in the past three years has
completed four writing and short film
commissions around regeneration themes for Integreat Yorkshire (funded by Yorkshire
Forward). His first collection of poetry was
published in 2005.
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