Testimonials

'The richness your talents and your evident love of the power of narrative certainly came through in your illuminating comments and I learned loads from you.'   John Kirwan, business guru

'I wish it never ended,' participant of Writing Jane, Jane Austen Festival workshop, 2009

'We should make this workshop compulsory because it's fantastic!' Italian EFL student, Udine, NE Italy 2009

‘an exceptional teacher... I think we were extremely lucky to have had your services for a year."
Imperial College, London

'You've been very affirming...You've made me realise what a vivid imagination I have...Thank you, I know where to start.'  'Unlocking the Imagination' workshop, Kensington Olympia

‘They all appreciate the start you gave them in your Creative Writing Group and all have had work published for payment.' John Haywood, ex-student and member of the Timsbury Scribblers

'Your impromptu narrative of the shiny knight of hope – Nicholas Cage – come to bring light to dazzle away the darkness of the evil demon ‘Recession’ was a tour de force!' Cafe of Ideas

 'I've gone from strength to strength since. Still working quietly on the fiction, but my first book on working with nature spirits is going to be published by Wooden Books in December! Danu, Glastonbury

'Very informative, enjoyable and easy to follow.' Colin, Great Western Writers workshop, Bristol 

'Very professional, well-structured, refreshing style' Jon Attwood, creative writing student 

'Inspirational teaching. Extremely well-organised.'Jenny Quinn, creative writing student

'A shamanic insight into things' Sally Baker, Writing the Land student

'Just to thank you again for a really enjoyable evening - very stimulating and like the way you structured the evening with your storytelling - superb - with the opportunity for us to participate and put the theory into practice… I've benefitted from the contact.  Thank you for sharing your skills so beautifully.' Alison, bardic workshop student

 'I really enjoyed meeting you on the weekend and wanted to thank you for entertaining us so well in the roundhouse (what a bonus!), you have a really gentle way about you which I really like. You did a really great job as host at the Eisteddfod, I really like the way you mixed the old and the new drawing everyone in.'Flag Fen '08, Deborah Holman

'It really is a remarkable, indeed a unique, piece of work: a mixture of poetry, history, mythology and topography that gives a full meaning to the concept of a literary celebration.'
Professor Ronald Hutton, on Lost Islands