NEW!
online Stanza Group:
first meeting
Tuesday 14th Sept 2021  7.30
Critiquing poetry- apply
to Liz by email

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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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Contact Liz:
lizcashdan@gmail.com

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I have now been in Bristol for four years.  I’m teaching for the Folk House, a community arts centre in Bristol, and of course 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
 
29th to 30th August 2021
Places still available

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. I am the OCA Unit Leader for poetry. 
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. And I sing in the Nailsea Choral Society. 
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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 am looking forward to this term's performance. 
 
 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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