Join me for Creative Writing courses at Adult Community Learning Essex. I am teaching Creative Writing Unleash Your Potential and Advance your Ambition at the Wilson Marriage Centre in Colchester and ACL Clacton (both hybrid).

Join us at Colchester WriteNight on a monthly basis, usually fourth Monday of the month, 7pm, Quaker Meeting House. All welcome.

This year I ran the National Saturday Writing & Talking Club for Essex Book Festival at Anglia Ruskin University, we have just taken part in a celebration event sharing our work at Somerset House. Our next project at Essex Book Festival is the Book Worm Podcast in collaboration with Chelmsford Community Radio.

As a Fixed Term Teacher (FHEA) at the University of Essex for seven years, I taught Creative Writing including Writing Structures and Poetry, Origins and Transformations in Literature, Postmodern Literature and Memory Maps (masters) modules. I’m also an experienced and qualified primary teacher, and having taught in all areas of education for over 20 years, am able to adapt easily to different educational environments.

I work for Essex Book Festival and have led short fiction/creative writing and performance workshops for Essex and Felixstowe Book Festivals over the last five years, as well as interviewing/introducing authors. Last year I was part of a collaboration between Essex Book Festival, Historic England, and the Beach of Dreams project Collecting Dreams, Shifting Futures at Orford Ness Nature Reserve, working with digital artist Lucia Barbagallo and archivist Glenys Newton on writing and digital workshops, exploring and gathering stories in this remarkable National Trust location. I coordinated the Spoken Word Power project (a project run by Eastside, bringing performance poets into schools), the Manifesto for Essex youth climate action project, including eco-poetry workshops for year 5/6s in Tendring schools, and a series of Creative Writing Workshops at the Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex.

Contact emmakittlepey@hotmail.co.uk if you’re interested in workshops or collaborations.