Sue Bishop is an award winning photographer and an inspiring lecturer and workshop leader. She is the author of three books about photography, 'Photographing Flowers', 'Digital Flower Photography' and 'Colour Light & Composition.
Katrina Brunsden
Early Morning Yoga
Sun 1 - Sat 14 Aug 2010
Sun 15 - Sat 28 Aug 2010
Sun 29 Aug - Sat 11 Sept 2010
Sun 12 - Sat 25 Sept 2010
Sat 25 Sept - Sat 2 Oct 2010
Hazel Carey
Free the Spirit
Sat 12 - Fri 18 Jun 2010
Hazel Carey, an international voice and movement teacher and psychosynthesis counsellor, works with visualisation, African dance, Qi Gong and voicework.
Helena Drysdale
Wk 1: Writing from Life Wk 2: Memoir Writing
WL5 Sun 20 - Sat 3 Jul 2010
Helena has published many novels including Looking for George and written for a range of newspapers. She is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Exeter University.
At the age of 21 Joyce Dunbar decided she was a writer, but she didn't know what sort. For the next 15 years she wrote poetry, fiction, journalism, and radio talks on a range of subjects, with limited success, while teaching literature to adults.
It wasn't until she was 35 that she wrote her first children's book, inspired by an illustration. Since then she has published 80 more. She also teaches creative writing, is a former writing fellow at UEA, and at present her 12 step guide to writing can be found on the BOOKTRUST website in BOOKBITE. She is also writing a memoir.
The course will explore different genres to help you discover the kind of writer you truly are...
Kate Forsyth
Fantasy Writing - Ideas
WL3 Sat 29 May - Sat 5 Jun 2010
Kate Forsyth is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty books for children and adults, including The Puzzle Ring, The Gypsy Crown, The Starthorn Tree, and the bestselling fantasy series ‘The Witches of Eileanan’ and ‘Rhiannon’s Ride’. Offering an escape into worlds filled with adventure, wonder and magic, her books have sold nearly 1 million copies across twelve different countries. She has a BA in Literature, majoring in Children’s Literature, from Macquarie University, and a MA in Writing from UWS.
Andrea Gates
Style & Image
Sun 1 - Sat 7 Aug 2010
Andrea Gates has over 12 years experience in the image business. She will advise on colour and style, enabling participants to highlight their individual personalities through what they wear.
Alison Goldie
Flirtshop
Sun 27 Jun - Sat 3 Jul 2010
Alison Goldie is an actor, theatre director, broadcaster and facilitator. She has worked as a stand-up comic, TV presenter and corporate trainer. She is currently touring her one-woman show, Lady, in Bed, to great acclaim.
John Harris
Salsa
Sun 20 - Sat 26 Jul 2010
John Harris, who has studied Systemic approaches since 2002, has furthered his studies at the CSISS in 2007-2009. He also teaches Argentine Tango and Cuban Salsa and is a Hatha Yoga teacher. John has a gift for teaching beginners how to Salsa and Tango thanks to his highly accessible instruction style and natural enthusiasm.
Carly Marie Head
Music Making
Sun 12 - Sat 18 Sep 2010
Carly Marie Head is a professional Saxophonist, Flautist and Clarinetist, playing Latin/Jazz, Funk and African music. She is also a composer of Latin Style music and musical director of a 30-piece Latin/Funk band.
Alice Jolly
Kitchen Table Writer
WL1 Thur 1 - Thur 8 Apr 2010
Alice Jolly has published two novels - What the Eye Doesn't See (2003, Simon and Schuster) and If Only You Knew (2006, Simon and Schuster). Her prize-winning short stories and poems have been published in a wide range of anthologies and magazines.
She has broadcast for Radio 4 and has written a prize-winning play. Her articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday, The Bulletin and The New Writer.
Alice teaches creative writing at Oxford University, leads writing workshops in schools and is currently working on a new novel.
Sophie King
Wk 1: How to Write Short Stories Wk 2: How to Write Short Stories
WL6Sun 4 - Sat 17 Jul 2010
Sophie King, a teacher of Creative Writing at Oxford University (CE), is the author of the best selling novels The School Run and Mums at Home. As a journalist she has written for many publications.
Laura Koplewitz
Music Making
Sun 4 - Sat 10 Jul 2010
Born in Spokane, Washington, Laura’s family come from Romanian/Polish and Italian Heritage, with three generations in the United States. She studied composition at the C.U.N.Y Graduate Center on a fellowship in the PhD program in music composition.
In 2006, she was selected as one of four fellows for master classes with composer Yehudi Wyner (Pulitzer Prize Winner 2006) at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
Laura also enjoys collaborative arts projects and has worked with visual artist on art installations in New York City and Lima, Peru.
Richard Layzell
Outdoor Art
Sun 25 - Sat 31 Jul 2010 Richard Layzell is an award-winning artist, writer and teacher. His current exhibition, The Manifestation, (with Tania Koswycz) is touring the UK, and their dialogues, Cream Pages, is due to be published this year.
Richard Lewis
Music & Creativity
Sun 18 - Sat 24 Jul 2010
Richard Lewis is a musician, film maker and writer who has worked for many companies including Microsoft, Skype and Oxford University Press. He believes everyone is creative through music, words and images.
Kevan Manwaring
Wk1: Writing Poetry
Wk2: Life Fiction
WL10 Sun 29 Aug - Sat 11 Sep 2010
Kevan Manwaring is a writer of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction who lives in Bath, Somerset. Holder of an MA in the Teaching and Practice in Creative Writing from Cardiff University, he teaches creative writing for the Open University. He also runs freelance courses in storytelling and various aspects of the writing process to a wide variety of students. As a professional storyteller he has appeared in numerous shows in Britain and abroad (USA, Italy and Malta). He is the author of The Bardic Handbook, Lost Islands, The Way of Awen and the ongoing Windsmith novels. His poems and articles have appeared in several magazines and anthologies. In 1998 he won the Bardic Chair in his adopted city. He co-runs the Bath Writers Workshop and is the founder of Awen Publications.
Maria Mastroyanni
Early Morning Yoga
Thurs 1 - Thurs 8 April 2010
Crysse Morrison
Wk 1: Your Writer’s Voice
Wk 2: Good Practice
WL4 Sat 5 - Fri 18 Jun 2010
Crysse was inspired by a Skyros Writers' Lab session to make a career change, and is now a full-time free-lance writer. Hodder & Stoughton published her two novels; she also writes short fiction and poetry and has a regular style column in Writing Magazine. She is an experienced creative writing tutor and has led courses throughout the world.
Monique Roffey
Wk 1: Craft of Fiction Wk 2: Life Writing
WL9 Sun 15 - Sat 28 August 2010
Monique Roffey's latest novel is The White Woman on the Green Bicycle. She is an ex Arvon Centre Director and Royal Literary Fund Fellow. She teaches Creative Writing for English PEN, Arvon and is a guest tutor on the Goldsmiths MA in Creative Writing.
Monique has just been short-listed for the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction award that is awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year. The Orange Prize forms part of the "trinity" of UK literary prizes, along with the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Awards.
Jennie Rooney
Wk 1: Aspects of Novel Writing Wk 2: Keep on Keeping on
WL2 Sat 15 - Fri 28 May 2010
Jennie Rooney's first novel was published in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, as well as being featured on Richard and Judy's New Writers Book Club. She lives in London, where she also works for First Story (a school-based writing project) and runs creative writing courses. Her second novel is to be published in June 2010.
Ilene Sawka
Wk 1: Free Your Creativity
Wk 2: The Artist's Way
Sat 15 - Fri 28 May 2010 Ilene Sawka facilitates creativity workshops for top Swedish managers and politicians using an array of original forms and techniques. She is also a Qi Gong teacher.
Susie Self
Painting
Sat 5 - Fri 11 Jun 2010
Susie Self is a singer/songwriter and performs at Covent Garden, Glyndebourne and co-starred with Jasper Carrot in the West End. She leads voice and sound healing retreats in USA and Skyros. Her latest album is Seachanges.
Tsivi Sharett
Music & Singing
Sun 5 - Sat 11 Sep 2010
Tsivi Sharett, a London jazz musician whose classical training echoes through her work, composes, performs with her band the TS Ensemble, and leads workshops.
Arthur Smith
Creating Comedy
WL12 Sat 25 Sep - Sat 2 Oct 2010
Arthur Smith is a comedian, writer and broadcaster; He has performed comedy all over the world and has written every form of comedy from stand up to one-liners to full-length plays and screenplays. His play An Evening with Gary Linekar ran for several years in the West End. He appears regularly on Radio 4 but finds that he is best known for BBC’s Grumpy Old Men, his acclaimed autobiography My Nameis Daphne Fairfax was published last summer.
Amanda Smyth
Wk 1: Writing for Your Life Wk 2: Short Cuts
WL8 Sun 1 - Sat 14 Aug 2010
Amanda Smyth is Irish-Trinidadian and was educated in England. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2000. Her short stories and poetry have been published in New Writing, London Magazine, the TLS and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as part of a series called Love and Loss. Amanda was awarded an Arts Council grant for her first novel, Black Rock, published by Serpent’s Tail.
Theresa Sundt
Playing with Colour
Sun 11 - Sat 17 Jul 2010
Theresa Sundt is a professional artist and art teacher focusing her work on the therapeutic qualities of colour. She gives colour workshops all over the world that vibrate with enthusiasm and life changing creativity.Her newly published book The Art of Colour Therapy, has been translated in four languages.
Allegra Taylor
Wk 1: Your Life Story Wk 2: Character & Plot
WL11 Sun 12 - Sat 25 Sep 2010
Allegra is the author of several books and has been teaching creative writing for 20 years.
Vasso Triantafyllou
Greek Easter Desserts
Thur 1 - Thur 8 Apr 2010
Food is prepared by Vasso, about whom writer Michele Roberts wrote 'Where is heaven? Here on earth in Vasso's kitchen'
Sarah Warwick
Songwriting & Singing
Sun 15 - Sat 21 Aug 2010
Sarah Warwick is an internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter, performer and recording artist with 3 number one dance hits in the UK and the US. She also runs voice workshops.
Shelley Weiner
The First Novel
WL7 Sun 18 - Sat 24 July 2010
Shelley Weiner is an established novelist and writing tutor. South African-born, she worked as a journalist, PR writer and editor in a publishing house before turning to fiction. Her five published novels and short stories, which have appeared in various anthologies, were all widely acclaimed. Shelley is a Special Advisory Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and had RLF Fellowships between 2004 and 2008. She has lectured on the Creative Writing MA at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, and on the writing programme at Birkbeck College. She has also taught for the Open University, the Taliesin Trust, Durham University Summer School and the Faber Academy. Scores of new fiction writers, several of them now published, have emerged from her “First Novel” workshops in Camden Town, Wales and in her Highgate kitchen.
Colin Williams
Music Making
Sun 12 - Sat 18 Sep 2010
Colin has long experience in the field of creative digital music-making and currently runs a recording studio in Bristol. In Skyros he will give participants the opportunity to create original pieces of music.
Sara Withers
Jewellery Making
Sun 19 - Sat 25 Sep 2010
Sat 25 Sep - Sat 2 Oct 2010
Sara Withers has been designing and making jewellery for many years. Her work concentrates on the use of beads – either self made, commissioned from glassworkers or sourced from interesting suppliers. She has taken part in exhibitions in many different places and her work is sold in a selection of shops and galleries throughout Britain.
She is the author of six and a half books of bead jewellery projects! The most recent being ‘The Encyclopedia of Beading Techniques’ co-authored with Stephanie Burnham and, a new departure, ‘Button Jewellery’. She is currently working on ‘The Encyclopedia of Wire Jewellery Techniques’
Sara teaches bead making and jewellery making in several arts centres amongst them West Dean College; Zantium; Farncombe Estate and the Oxford Summer School.
Helen Yeomans
Singing
Sat 29 May - Sat 5 Jun 2010
Helen Yeomans has been directing and composing for Glorious Chorus, a 60-strong a-capella choir from Devon, England. She also runs other choirs where she teaches an eclectic mix of songs.
David Zucker
Theatre & Mime,
Sun 8 - Sat 14 Aug 2010
David Zucker is a professional actor, mime artist, playwright, director, author and teacher of T’ai Chi and Qi Gong. He facilitates workshops for managers with The Ariel Group.
Atsitsa Bay
Life Choices
