WORKSHOPS

Cecilia is an experienced facilitator and the winner of the 2021 Ruth Rendell award for services to young people’s literacy. As Young People’s Laureate for 2020/2021, she helped raise the visibility of poetry to London’s young people through performances, workshops, projects and campaigns. She taught workshops to over 990 participants over the year, partnering with charities and arts organisations. She performed to over 3520 young people and delivered online creative campaigns that reached over 120000 people.

Cecilia delivers both one off, long and short term creative writing projects. She is currently the lead tutor for The Roundhouse Poetry Collective , a prestigious mentoring programme for young writers. She has taught theatre and poetry workshops for various theatres including The Lyric, The Albany, The Brighton Dome and Bristol Old Vic. She has taught poetry workshops for universities such as Kings, UCL, Kingston and Loughborough and an intensive module at Huddersfield University. She also works with sixth form students and in various secondary schools. She is a writer in residence at two London schools with the writing charity First Story. She regularly delivers sessions for The Poetry Society and for numerous arts charities such as All Change where she is an associate artist. She has worked in prisons, in youth centres such as New Horizons and Deptford Reach Day Centre and she was poet in residence at Great Ormond Street Hospital for two years. She also delivers sessions in workplaces and CPD for teachers.

Workshops can be tailored to suit the individual needs, timeframes and objectives of each group she works with. They can range from an hour one off session to longer term projects. Please get in touch for more information.

Example online workshops

An online workshop for creative writing charity FIRST STORY aimed at secondary age young people

During her tenure as Young People’s Laureate, Cecilia designed an online campaign ‘Write Through This’ a series of monthly online workshops and short tutorial videos designed to raise participation in poetry and creative writing in young people. Watch the tutorial videos below.