North End Writers - Who's Who

Who's Who?

Patrons

  • Ian McMillan
  • Deryn Rees-Jones

    Management Committee

    • Trustee/Chair: Pauline Rowe
    • Trustee/Treasurer: Paula Atherton
    • Trustee/Company Secretary: Darran Ling
    • Trustees: Susan Geoghegan, Gemma Lynch, Kevin West

    Advisory Members

    • Alan French (Directory of Social Change)
    • Andy Johnson (Liverpool Library Service)
    • Dave Ward (The Windows Project)

Chair of Trustees - Pauline Rowe

Photograph of Pauline Rowe

Pauline was born and brought up in Widnes but has lived in Liverpool for 25 years. She has a poetry pamphlet, Playing Out Time (Driftwood publications, 2005) and has been widely published in magazines. Her poetry film List was made as part of the Nothing Rhymes with Poets project in 2006. She has worked in local government, the NHS, prison education and the voluntary sector. She is a founding member of North End Writers and has a first degree in Law from Liverpool University and an MA in Creative Arts (Reading and Writing Poetry) from Liverpool Hope University. Pauline has a writing blog at http://wordwoman.blogspot.com/

Writing Groups Facilitator - Alice Bennett

Alice facilitates the two writing groups for Tuebrook and Norris Green. She has an MA in Creative Writing and is passionate about all types of fiction and in terms of non-fiction, loves nature and travel writing and biography / autobiography. Her favourite author is Bruce Chatwin. Alice wants to develop a mentoring system as an integral feature of North End Writers.

Volunteers - In 2008 we are adopting a more formal approach to volunteering. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, please contact us and ask for a volunteer application pack.

Management Committee meetings: as announced.

AGM - Wednesday 24th September, 7.30 pm at Shrewsbury House Youth & Community Centre, 37 Langrove Street, Everton L5 3PE. All welcome.

"Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests. I'll dig with it." Seamus Heaney