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Julie Kennedy

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Contact: [email protected]
Other contact method: Contact me through my website contact form [https://julieskennedy.blogspot.com/]
Local authority: East Renfrewshire
Languages: English, Scots
Author type: Poet, Writer
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I am a writer and poet. I am experienced in working with a wide range of age groups, organising and delivering writing workshops in secondary schools to all ages and stages; I have experience as a WEA tutor working in a library and as a tutor for Survivors’ Poetry Scotland facilitating creative writing workshops at Margaret Blackwood Housing Association. I can provide workshops about poetry/fiction and writing in Scots. I can adapt workshops to any group. My aim in workshops is to help people find their own individual writing voice in a fun, relaxed and safe space. My work has been published widely in poetry magazines such as New Writing Scotland, Causeway/Cabhsair, Southword, and the Poetry Society Newsletter. I was highly commended in the Ledbury 2022 Poetry Competition. I was awarded a Scots Language Publication Grant 2022 to publish an e-novel Ma Mum & William Wordsworth (first edition longlisted by Mslexia 2013 First Novel Competition).

I am interested in themes of community building, voice and language, nature, bereavement and resilience, empowerment through creative writing and reading.

I also provide editing and proof-reading services.

Websites featuring the author

Local authorities will visit

Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll and Bute; Clackmannanshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Dundee; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Highland; Inverclyde; Midlothian; Moray; Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles); North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Orkney Islands; Perth and Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; Shetland; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian

Events will deliver

Chairing events; Panel event; Performance; Professional development, CLPL or CPD; Reading; Residency; Talk; Workshop

Audience will work with

Adult learners; Care-experienced people; English as an additional language (EAL); Adults with additional support needs; People experiencing mental health problems; Reluctant readers; Vulnerable young people (under 18); Vulnerable adults; Vulnerable older people; Young people in the community (e.g. Youth clubs, Guides, Scouts); Young people with additional support needs (under 18) (ASN/SEN)

Topics of work

Activism & protest; Adolescence; Ageing; Biography & memoir; Childhood; Class & society; Contemporary fiction; Death, grief & bereavement; Editing & editing your own work; Emigration & immigration; Family; Friendship; Health including mental health & wellbeing; Historical fiction; Human rights; Loneliness & isolation; Nature; Politics; Poverty; Publishing & getting published; Self-publishing & independent publishing

Age groups published for

Teens; Adults

Age groups will work with

6-8; 9-11; 12-14; 15-18; 18+

Audience size

0-10; 11-30; 31-100; 100-500