Cat Jones – Founder and Teacher
Cat Jones is an experienced teacher who has worked in the profession since 2002. She has taught English, History and Music and has also been Assistant Head of Year. She has been involved in numerous residential courses during her time as a teacher. Cat has also worked as a professional songwriter and in 2007, she received a Distinction for an MA in Creative and Transactional Writing from Brunel University, gaining high praise for her dissertation; a novel entitled A Hunchback in Heaven. Cat has recently completed an MA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media at The Central School of Speech and Drama and is currently Writer in Residence at a prison in the Midlands.
Mo Hayder – Guest Writer
Mo Hayder left school at fifteen. She worked as a barmaid, security guard, film-maker, hostess in a Tokyo club, educational administrator and teacher of English as a foreign language in Asia. She has an MA in film from The American University in Washington DC and an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University UK.
Her debut, BIRDMAN, published in January 2000, was an international bestseller. Her second novel, THE TREATMENT, also a Sunday Times bestseller, won the 2002 WH Smith Thumping Good Read award. Her third novel Sunday Times bestseller TOKYO, which was published in May 2004 in the UK, won the Elle magazine crime fiction prize, the SNCF Prix Polar, and was nominated for three CWA dagger awards. Tokyo was published as THE DEVIL OF NANKING in the US March 2005. PIG ISLAND her fourth best seller was published in April 2006 and was nominated for both a Barry Award for best british crime novel and a CWA dagger. Her fifth book, RITUAL, the first of THE WALKING MAN series, was nominated for The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award.
Mo lives with her daughter in Bath, and is currently working on her seventh novel.
For more information about Mo Hayder, please visit: www.mohayder.net
Mo will be Guest Writer on the 2009 residential.
Jack Thorne
Jack Thorne’s plays for stage include When You Cure Me (Bush, 2005, Radio 3’s Drama on Three, Barrow St Theatre, New York, 2008), Fanny and Faggot (Pleasance, Edinburgh, 2004 and 2007, Finborough, 2007, English Theatre of Bruges 2007, Trafalgar Studios 2007) and Stacy (Tron, 2006, Arcola 2007, Trafalgar Studios 2007). For radio, his play Left At The Angel was on Radio 4 in 2006. Jack was Pearson Writer-in-Residence at the Bush 2006-7. His short film A Supermarket Love Song was shown at Sundance 2006. For TV, Jack wrote several episodes of Channel 4's Skins and Shameless, as well as the 30-minute drama The Spastic King.
Jack will be running workshops on the August 2009 residential.
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Fliss Buckles – Founder and Teacher
Fliss Buckles is the Head of Film and Media Studies at a High School in West London. Before becoming a teacher, Fliss worked for a public relations agency writing marketing literature for a variety of companies. She is extremely experienced at running residential courses for young people having worked for many years for Over The Wall, a charity that provides such courses for children suffering from cancer and other serious illnesses. She is also the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Coordinator for her school, a role that involves regularly leading children on camping expeditions. Fliss is currently studying towards an MA in Film Studies at The University of Exeter.
Belinda Seward
Belinda Seaward is a writer and teacher. She has completed three novels and is currently at work on a fourth. Her second novel Hotel Juliet, an epic love story set in Africa, Scotland and London was published by John Murray in January 2008 and has since been translated into German, French, Dutch and Spanish. Her third novel Will and the Wolf, a time travel story for young adults, is under consideration with publishers. Belinda began her career as a journalist working for newspapers in Devon and Somerset. She spent ten years living in London during which she wrote for national newspapers, including the Daily Mail and Sunday Times. She also worked as a journalist in Bahrain before turning to writing fiction. She has a degree in Philosophy and for the past eight years has worked as an English teacher at a boys’ school in Devon.
Belinda will be running workshops on the August 2009 residential.
Claire Thompson
Claire Thompson is a teacher of English and a freelance travel writer. Between 2006 and 2008 she taught English at a British school in Mexico City, where she regularly contributed to feature and editorial writing for a number of Mexican publications. Now based in London, Claire writes about Latin America with a particular focus on Mexico. She regularly publishes articles in Conde Nast Traveller and has also had articles in The Guardian, Times, Telegraph, Time Out, Red Magazine, Marie Claire, Harpers Bazaar and Food and Travel magazine. Claire also writes fictionally and has recently completed her debut novel ‘Kaleidoscope’, a teen fiction text based around a gypsy family. Claire teaches English part time at a school in West London.
Claire will be running workshops on the August 2009 residential.
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