Information About Shereen - Muswell Hill teacher -

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Personal Description:

I am an award winning and widely published writer educated to Ph.D level. My work includes fiction and non-fiction for both adults and children.

My awards include: The Booktrust London (winner 2004) Wordsworth magazine (winner 1997) Young Writer magazine (winner 2000 and 2001) Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (runner up 2003) Fish Publications (runner up 1999 and 2009)

My short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, including: New Writing 14, From Outside In, Lines in the Sand, Pretext, From the Beiring Strait and Other Stories, Freedom Spring, The Silver Throat of the Moon, Underwords, Whose Britain? Britain Rewritten, Camden Town Advanced -The UK : between tradition and change, a textbook for German schools.

I have also been published in: Sable, Wordsworth, The Interpreter’s House; Young Writer; The Stinging Fly ; Lexicon ; First Word; Exiled Writer, Trespass, Calabash

My articles, interviews and reviews have been published in: TES, Books for Keeps, Calabash, Journal of Gender Studies, Wasafiri, CADFA Human Rights Handbook for Young People, Exiled Ink!

Public readings of my work include: Symphony Space Theatre and National Public Radio (USA); Coin Street, Spitalfields and Wise Words Literary Festivals (all UK) Al-Quds University (Jerusalem), Radio Kerry and Listowel Writers’ Week (Ireland), Voice of the Cape (South Africa); Valladolid (Spain

I am the author of “A Burnt Child” (novel) and “Waiting for Fidel in the Springtime” (short story collection) and the co-editor of Wasafiri ((issue 60) and Trafalgar – the golden years.

Teaching Experience:

I am experienced in teaching formal creative writing courses as well as running creative writing workshops in a wide range of settings, including primary and secondary schools, colleges, prisons and community groups, using a range of techniques to inspire writing. I have developed materials for Barbican Education for use in primary schools and devised long-term projects in schools.

My years of teaching include working both in the UK and overseas, up to and including university level, in classrooms and privately. My students have been as young as six or as old as sixty. They have been of varying abilities and from hugely different backgrounds. I have taught individuals in their homes as well as small groups at colleges, in libraries and in community organizations.

Teaching Approach:

I am experienced in teaching formal creative writing courses as well as running creative writing workshops in a wide range of settings, including primary and secondary schools, colleges, prisons and community groups, using a range of techniques to inspire writing. I have developed materials for Barbican Education for use in primary schools and devised long-term projects in schools.

I enjoy tutoring and find it a hugely rewarding experience. I think that my enthusiasm as an educator imbues my tutees with an eagerness to make progress in their work whilst the fact that I am a published and award-winning writer inspires them towards achieving their writing goals.

I encourage students to be robust enough to put their work out into the world as soon as possible, to take a positive approach to critiques of their work and to persist in working towards their goals, whether those be widespread publication or simply to complete a satisfying body of work.