Aoife Mannix is the author of four collections of poetry and a novel ‘Heritage of Secrets’. She has been poet in residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company and BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live. She has performed throughout the UK and toured internationally with the British Council to China, Latvia, Nigeria, Turkey, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Norway and Austria.She is an experienced workshop leader, writer’s tutor and mentor for young people and adults. She has experience working in arts centres, universities, primary and secondary schools, libraries, youth centres, and young offenders’ institutes. Organisations she has run workshops and mentoring sessions for include BBC Radio 3, Apples & Snakes, the Poetry School, the British Council, Spread the Word, Writers Centre Norwich, Anglia Ruskin University, Goldsmiths University of London, University of Westminster, Southbank Centre, All Change, Keats House, Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, Creative Partnerships, Poet in the City, the British Library, the Roundhouse, BBC New Writing Partnership, the Royal Court and the University of Melbourne.

workshops for young poets

commission to write blog for London Libraries festival

Dec 2011 - Writer/PerformerMisunderstood Monsters – children’s show with music by Janie Armour and site specific digital game playing by Andrew Wilson. Venues include Half Moon Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Arts Depot, Birmingham mac, Ledbury Poetry Festival, St Michael’s Primary School, Half Moon Young People’s Theatre/Apples and Snakes, London

Language and the Imagination – teaching on MA course Writing The City

writing project working with a mental health charity

writer’s residency with women refugees supported by Arts Council England and culminating in a book of testimony, poetry and photography.All Change, 16-34 Graham Street, Islington, London N1 8JX

Storytelling, Poetry and Performance – teaching weekly seminars for third year BA course

created an interactive theatrical journey for a live promenade performance, an iPhone app and a website map (www.rsc.org.uk/adelaideroad).

regeneration project to create community inspired poetry for public art installations.Poetry School/South Kilburn Partnership, Lambeth Walk, London

– residency including mobile installation and anthology looking at Sutton’s industrial heritage. Funded by Heritage Lottery Fund.Sutton Council/Spread the Word, 77 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX

residency for the London borough of Camden culminating in an installation at the British Museum and an anthology. Camden Libraries/Spread the Word

residency in Eastbury comprehensive school in Barking Creative Partnerships/Apples & Snakes

Programme Coordinator/Script Editor/MentorHolby Shadow Scheme – running a training course for TV writers BBC New Writing Initiative, Mortimer Street, London

Drama Series (Holby City), BBC, Elstree Centre, Clarendon Road, Herts WD6

Drama Dept, Channel 4, 124 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2TX