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.