Founder (in 2001) and organiser of thePoetry on the Lake international Celebration, competition, and events (www.poetryonthelake.org) on Lake Orta, in the Italian Alps, patron: the British Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Editor of the annual anthologies and of Poetry on the Lake Journal. Past activities include events and seminars on community communication for the Venice Biennale, exhibitions and cultural events in Milan, Venice and Umbria. Translator. Author of guidebooks, handbooks on the use of video in communities, articles on folklore and local history, and novels. Adjudicator of Wiltshire Libraries poetry competition, UK; Bill Winter competition, Italy, Guernsey Arts Poems on the Move, Channel Islands; TRYangle, Eastern Light, London; Hungry Hill Writers, Ireland,
Some Recent Updates
Hedgehog Pamphlet winner 2022
Poems in Empty Nests edited by Carol Ann Duffy, Picador. (UK 2022)
Sentinel poetry: Highly Commended
Plough Prize poetry: Shortlisted
Writers' Bureau 2020 - Flash Fiction: Shortlisted
Barnet 2019/20: 2 Commended poems
Bridport 2019: poem Shortlisted
Canterbury, 2018, Save As Writers: Celebrating Gothic Short Story: 1st prize
Yeovil 2017 2nd prize for Novel The Monastery of Nine Doors