Jenn Ashworth
BIOGRAPHY
Jenn combines a career in libraries and reader development (she has worked at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, rural branches and currently manages a Prison Library) with a writing career than includes a variety of online publications and a blog that won the Best Writing on a Blog Award at the 2008 Manchester Literary Festival.
Jenn is also a participant in the NW live lit scene and is experienced in running reading groups, creative writing workshops, and collaborating with sound and visual artists in a variety of freelance community arts and literature projects.
WEBSITE
GENRE
Fiction, Short Stories, Blogging And Online Collaborative Writing, Flash, Autobiographical
PUBLICATIONS | PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Debut novel: A Kind of Intimacy published by Arcadia books in March 2009. ' Described by her publisher as 'the kind of sparking, unusual novel that comes along once in a decade.'
Online publications: found at www.jennashworth.blogspot.com
WORKSHOP | READINGS EXPERIENCE","REFERENCE/S
Teaching and work-shopping experience with small groups of adults writing at all levels including a self designed writing course for beginners.
One on one mentoring and manuscript appraisal.
Participation in various live lit nights and events across the NW and beyond.
REFERENCE/S
Available on request.
GROUP SIZE PREFERENCE
Workshop:15
GROUP AGE PREFERENCE
age 14+
WORKING LANGUAGE/S
English
AREA/S PREPARED TO TRAVEL
all requests considered
OTHER INFORMATION
Am particularly interested in running blogging workshops and assisting beginners with on-line self publishing, collaborative on-line writing and creative networking.
Librarians in the North West have pioneered partnership working to encourage new readers into libraries. Time To Read is a partnership of librarians engaged in reader development activity in public library authorities in the North West Region. All 23 public library authorities in the region currently support Time To Read.