I’m a writer and adult education tutor working in North East England. I teach creative writing for the Workers Educational Association and other organisations and deliver workshops and other writing related projects online and in community venues.

I’m available for readings, teaching, workshops, residencies, mentoring, critiques, story-telling and other writing related work.

For more information see my website: www.amandaquinn.co.uk

My experience includes:

Creative Writing courses for organisations including the Workers’ Educational Association, The Cultural Spring, Gateshead Carers, RT Projects, Women’s Health in South Tyneside, and Washington Resource Centre.

Creative Writing workshops for organisations including Women’s Health in South Tyneside, Northern Writers Studio, New Writing North, Lit and Phil, Newcastle Libraries, North Pens Writing Group, and Northern Butterflies.

Artist Practitioner for Paul Hamlyn Teacher Development Fund MaGPiE Project with Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (2019-2021).

Mentoring and critique service for individual clients.

Series of writing workshops at Fenham Allotments/online to engage and support people in recovery (2020)

Series of writing workshops to help adults, children and young people respond creatively to the SEAM exhibition at Newcastle Mining Institute (2018).

‘Brief Encounters: Writing and teaching flash fiction’ workshop at the National Association of Writers in Education Conference 2018.

‘Postcard Stories’ – stall at the Great Exhibition of the North Family Expo to encourage children and young people to write and read flash fiction (August 2018).

Lead writer for the Durham Cuckoo Young Writers group (New Writing North) looking at short fiction (2017).