Char March - writer - tutor - mentor - editor
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      • Annual Midwifery Conference
      • Impressions and York City Art Galleries
    • Calder Valley Heritage Trails
    • Poetry & Sculpture Trail - Yorkshire Dales National Park
    • Working with Hull Univ's Dept for Health & Social Care
    • International work on creativity
    • BBC Country Tracks - Ben Fogle
    • BBC 'Ramblings' with Clare Balding
    • The Egg, The Womb, The Head and The Moon
    • Settle Stories
    • Lecturer in Creative Writing - Leeds College of Art & Design
    • Dove Cottage - inspiring secondary teachers
    • Bronte Parsonage projects
    • Thackray Medical Museum projects
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The Brontës, mini-books, bodice-rippers… and flesh soup! 

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I regularly work at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth - helping visitors and also school groups capture their visit through creative writing.  I've worked with visitors and staff at the Parsonage to create a series of mini-books - like the ones the Brontë sisters produced when they were young.  I've run a Write A Bodice-Ripper In An Afternoon with a fabulous multi-cultural mix of visitors as they passed through the museum.  Another favourite activity for Primary children is visiting the graveyard in front of the Parsonage were there are - allegedly - 22,000 bodies buried in just that very small area!  The kids love writing poems about being worms in the graveyard - munching through all the bodies, and imagining all the tastes, smells and textures of those terrible times when Haworth's infant mortality was one of the highest in Britain because water from the moors flowed through the graveyard to feed the village's main pump.....yuk!

Dove Cottage, Brontë Parsonage & NAWE

Working regularly at Brontë Parsonage led to me a commission from Dove Cottage in The Lake District (the Wordsworth Museum) to work with secondary teachers on:  how to deliver English in a creative and fun way. I worked there inspiring two secondary schools to really stretch their pupils creatively!  Check out the article in NAWE's (National Association of Writers in Education) magazine.





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  • Hello!
  • What I do
    • Books
    • Performances
    • Courses
  • Currently...
  • Previous Residencies/Projects
    • Writer-in-Residence posts >
      • Temple Newsam Writer-in-Residence
      • Writer-in-residence for Leeds Hospitals
      • Writer-in-Residence - NHS North West
      • Writer-in-Residence for Hull Univ Business School
      • Watershed Landscape Project - Writer-in-Residence >
        • Char's Watershed Blog
      • Annual Midwifery Conference
      • Impressions and York City Art Galleries
    • Calder Valley Heritage Trails
    • Poetry & Sculpture Trail - Yorkshire Dales National Park
    • Working with Hull Univ's Dept for Health & Social Care
    • International work on creativity
    • BBC Country Tracks - Ben Fogle
    • BBC 'Ramblings' with Clare Balding
    • The Egg, The Womb, The Head and The Moon
    • Settle Stories
    • Lecturer in Creative Writing - Leeds College of Art & Design
    • Dove Cottage - inspiring secondary teachers
    • Bronte Parsonage projects
    • Thackray Medical Museum projects
    • Find Your Talent
  • Char's background
  • Contact