10-week
courses
in Somerset. In 1997, she moved to
South Wales where she gained a BSc
in Psychology and an MA in The
Teaching and Practice of Creative
W riting at Cardiff University.
weekend
workshops
introduction
to
memoir writing
writing workshops across a variety of
academic, healthcare and community
arts contexts since 2002.
Briony was Writer in Residence at Musgrove Park Hospital in Somerset in 2006. The writing generated from the workshops that she led during her time there can be found in three-dimensions all around the courtyard of the new cardiac building. Briony has also been appointed as Co-writer in Residence, with Phil Carradice, at Whitchurch Hospital from summer 2007, as part of ‘The Whitchurch Project’. This is a three-year creative writing project that is seeking to record and reflect upon the personal experiences of individuals who have come into contact with this 100-year old psychiatric hospital. The project is in association with Academi – The Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Authors and The Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust.
In addition to setting up her series of independent workshops and courses in Somerset, Briony has specialised in facilitating creative writing workshops for vulnerable or marginalised groups of adults and young people. She runs weekly sessions for individuals with a range of mental health problems, as part of the therapeutic provision at Whitchurch Hospital in Cardiff. And she teaches creative writing courses for adults with mental health problems as part of the Disability Advisory Resource Team in Cardiff and at Somerset College of Arts and Technology in Taunton. Briony has contributed to Writing Works: A Resource Handbook for Therapeutic Writing Workshops and Activities (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006).
Briony lives in Cardiff and works in and between South Wales and the South West of England.
workshops
in
creative writing &
the visual arts
Briony Goffin