In Episode 5 of I Am A Writer, host Annie Warren is in conversation with Michelle Dunstan and Ellie Gilbert – members of Inspire’s Libraries’ and Culture Team who worked on the project.

Michelle is Libraries and Cultures Officer and Ellie is one of the Arts Council’s National Portfolio Organisation or NPO Librarians.

For more information about the project visit: ⁠I Am A Creator | Inspire - Culture, Learning, Libraries

In Episode 4 of I Am A Writer, host Annie Warren is in conversation with Andy Graves – a fellow writer on the project.

Andrew Graves is a poet, performer and cinephile. He has been featured on Radio 6 Music’s Cerys Matthews Show and on BBC Radio 4. His latest titles include Not Dancing with Ingrid Pitt, published by Burning Eye Books in 2020, and Welcome to the Cheap Seats published in 2019 which is a history of working-class cinema. Andrew runs film courses and pre-screen introductions at arthouse independent cinemas such as the Broadway in Nottingham and the Phoenix in Leicester.

For I Am A Writer, Andrew worked with Men at the Edge at the Oasis Centre in Worksop - a place where men can come for help, support, guidance, training, teaching and friendship. He also delivered intergenerational workshops at libraries in some of the government’s Levelling Up for Culture Places.

For more information about the project visit: ⁠I Am A Creator | Inspire - Culture, Learning, Libraries

In Episode 3 of I Am A Writer, host Annie Warren is in conversation with Jack Burrows and Pippa Hennessy, who both worked with groups of neurodiverse families as part of the project.

Jack Burrows has been writing, acting and directing theatre for 20 years. His first play Four Uncertain Kings (2004) launched his theatre company Behind Bars Theatre. Since then, he has gone on to write plays for Mansfield Palace Theatre, and for the last 12 years he has written and directed the community pantomime for Sutton Centre Stage Group and Academy Transformation Trust. Jack was a 2022-23 Associate Artist with New Perspectives. Jack worked with Spectrum Wasps.

Pippa is a Nottingham-based writer. Her poetry, graphic fiction, short fiction and creative non-fiction have been published in a range of anthologies and magazines and she is now writing digital poetry – experimenting with what words can do when they’re not tied to the printed page. She has been facilitating writing workshops in a range of settings – including schools, prisons, universities, libraries, museums and art galleries – for over ten years. Since January 2021 she has been a lead writer on Writing East Midlands’ Beyond the Spectrum project, which provides free online writing workshops and a range of other activities for autistic adults and young people. In the last four years she has been diagnosed with Autism and ADHD. Pippa worked with families from the Nottinghamshire Home Education Network.

For more information about the project visit: I Am A Creator | Inspire - Culture, Learning, Libraries