SUZANNE POWER, PTP,

WEXFORD, IRELAND

Creativity is our most natural instinct. Creative explorations, daily commitments to these, change lives. Writing fully allows you not only to say what you wanted to say, but be, if not always who, how you wished to be. For twenty years I’ve taught and listened in every setting from prison to university, in an empowering way, producing anthologies for libraries, schools, third level institutions, cancer support centres. I devised and taught Maynooth University’s Creative Writing programme, edited consumer magazines, features in two national newspapers, a personal columnist for fifteen years, a television broadcaster, producer and researcher in the UK and Ireland.

Recently I’ve formed a consultancy as a writer, editor and mentor of groups and individuals. Last year seven new authors achieved publication by facing their fears.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Poetry Therapy Practitioner

• BA, Journalism

• MA, Creative Writing

• Cert. Social Media and Marketing

SPECIAL INTERESTS

• Creative Writing for Transformative Living.

• Folklore and Therapeutic correlations.

• End of Life experience.

• Understanding of magnified events through creative interpretation.