I co-founded the Writing Squad  in 2001.  We started off as a project recruiting fifteen writers aged 16-21 every two years in Yorkshire, we are now part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio recruiting thirty writers from across the north of England. We provide workshops, one to one support and professional investment.  After our core two year…

Writing Squad writers Katherine Horrex and Lydia Marchant together with Project H writer Astrid and I, all wrote pieces inspired by archive footage of the great aviator and pioneer Amy Johnson, for the Hull based festival celebrating her life in 2016. We then gave them to sound artist Karen Lauke who made them into sound flights…

I produce most projects that we do as part of the Writing Squad, but this one was special for me as it continued my interest in public space, cities and photography. Six Squad writers Andy Owen Cook, Barnaby Callaby, Gavin Hudson, Steph Webb and Onyi Ekebuisi, walked Leeds with photographers Lizzie Coombes and Joe Stenson.  They…