NEW!
online Stanza Group:
restarts
Tuesday 13th Sept  2022  7.30
Critiquing poetry- apply
to Liz by email

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Contact Liz:
lizcashdan@gmail.com

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I write mostly poetry with some prose and script writing.    You can find what I’ve written by clicking on publications and Liz's poems.

I was a secondary school History and English teacher for years.  Then I moved into university and community work as a teacher of Creative Writing; but I still do writing workshops in schools with both kids and teachers.  You can find out about my teaching activities by clicking  on writing and teaching.

If you want to learn something about my ideas click on Liz's Blog - What happens when you write.

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I have now been in Bristol for five years.  I’m teaching for the Folk House, a community arts centre in Bristol, and I  tutor and assess for the Open College of the Arts.  For online courses and retreats  see my courses and events page. 
I am  a member of NAWE, and a peer reviewer for Writing in Practice and Writing in Education.
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My most recent work was published in
The Weather Indoors
an anthology of poems by Bristol Stanza Poets 

It was launched at Lyra: the Bristol Poetry Festival. 2021
Copies available from Liz by email request.
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Two-day Online   Writing  Retreat
1st and 2nd October 2022 at Bristol Folk House


To find out more and to book - click
through to the Courses and Events page
courses-and-events

​Watch this space for details of the next course/retreat online and a possible return to real life retreats
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More about Liz

​As a writer of poetry I like to keep a hand in other art forms so I tutor on a cross-arts module for The Open College of Arts as well as on their Creative Writing courses.  

Here’s how I try to keep abreast of all the arts:
I am a frequenter of Music in Bristol and hope to get to know the Repertoire at St Georges Brandon Hill.  
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Before I left Sheffield I acted in two plays put on the Crucible main stage by Sheffield’s People’s Theatre:  The Sheffield Mysteries in 2014 and Dream in 2016 both of them written by Chris Bush and directed by Daniel Evans.  I have recently joined Bristol Old Vic Adult theatre group and its offspring, the Odd Lot Theatre group. 
 
 In 2014 -15 I did a film-making course for older people as part as an EU-funded (please note) project in Cooperation with Portugal, Slovenia and Italy as a way of ensuring active aging.  I directed one five minute film and was screenwriter and actor for another: Swimming Pool which was subsequently shown at the Women Over 50 Film Festival  in Brighton in 2015. http://cinageproject.eu/en/package/cinage-films/film-09.html
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