Community

skilled workshop facilitator

i love people. I am always open to ideas, and always up for a creative challenge!


I love enabling creativity. I have been working with communities across the UK for over 20 years, getting work performed off the page, and focusing on the therapeutic release that writing offers. With a degree in Creative Writing and being a JNC qualified Youth & Community worker I’m skilled in bringing the best out of people.

I have facilitated workshops in a range of settings for over a decade – working in schools, local and regional established writing groups, festivals and literature events, across the UK and overseas. I’ve worked with complex young people, with people who are looking to develop their writing, in higher educational university settings, and with professional poets, artists & on long-term music projects. 

CURRENT COMMUNITY PROJECT AUTUMN 2024

Poetry Privy project

Community project to engage foster families and children in care.

Poets Megan Chapman (AKA MCMC Spoken), and Mac Dunlop, have been working with children in care to explore connection with nature and the idea of privacy.

This has developed ‘The Poetry Privy’ – a creative and wellness project around an unassuming old toilet house at Tehidy Country Park, Cornwall.

past commissions

  • Sea

    My heavy body walks slowly
    I see the sea before I see
    Anybody I love an early dawny
    Before the light invites me up
    A surge of energy my internal clock
    Knowing each rock that will show
    The tide line pull
    Reminding me let go

    I can’t dip and think or drink
    Present observant I see the sea
    Bright green seaweed sticks to me
    Can you sea the sea?
    Are we there yet?

    You can’t go and regret
    Prefer a sunrise to a sunset
    A day not met
    I ingest fresh droplets
    I choose to protect this time 
    Where, not telling, come find
    Me where the water meets the sand
    If you no then you know our land

    Rain or shine I’m getting wet
    You can’t see my body in the sea
    I’m doing it for me
    No selfy go pro’s no no
    It’s early doors on the low low
    Let go go keep going and going
    Floating, arms dip in rotating
    Legs wakening mindfully escaping
    Unavailable flight mode without needing one

    Cause my home is a holiday destination
    No news feeds
    Can breathe deep like seaweed
    Tread shallowly 
    It’s too early
    When knowbody needs me
    This is how it’s meant to be

    You know this fellow swimmingly’ s 
    Maybe just maybe
    Well find each other tidally
    Solo for soulfully
    Grouped for socially
    Coldness for mentally
    The sea will wholly
    Hold each of us unconditionally
    Unpredictably her vast depths
    A reminder us humans only scratch the surface

    I scramble back up the tufts
    Of reeds which weave the sand 
    View this land sunken barren
    Uniquely carved vast span

    Salt hits my lips I am
    Here a small spec a droplet
    A river meeting the sea
    A sacred place of history
    Can you sea the sea?
    Are we there yet?

    Oh playful youthful adventure
    Life’s cycles forever venture

     

  • For the Poetry Privy Project

    A Poem For Panel

    Ask me another question there could never be enough
    Ask me another question I’m filling up
    Ask me another question unpack my emotional stuff
    Ask me another question you’ll unpack your belongings
    Ask me another question you have every right probing
    Ask me another question as much as you need keep going
    Ask me another question you have every right knowing
    Ask me another question our hearts, minds are open
    Ask me another question yes we will cope and keep coping
    Ask me another question yes you may be broke and keep breaking
    Ask me another question please take and keep taking
    Ask me another question or curl up shut
    Ask me another question I agree you’d be silly to quickly trust
    Ask me another question you’ve learned to survive, may arrive frozen
    Ask me another question in comparison I get to dip my toes in
    Ask me another question point out my self-denial
    Ask me another question your whole life’s been filed
    Ask me another question yes you’re only a child
    Ask me another question please question our love,
    Ask me another question inside I’m doubled up
    Ask me another question I’d talk you through every cut
    Ask me another question I will open my door as much
    Ask me another question I will open your door a touch
    Ask me another question tell me when enough is enough
    Ask me another question don’t mention what you don’t want to
    Ask me another question my intention is to share our home with you

“MEG facilitated a space where young people could explore their feelings by creativeness, imagination and relation to their own experiences and current circumstances, with no pressure”

Marta Kodolina, Youth Worker

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