2022
May 2022: Writing Memories, 4 week course at Renew Malmesbury
April 2022: Poetry workshop at Three Storeys as part of Nailsworth Dementia-Friendly Arts Festival.
Emily Wills leading the workshop at Nailsworth.
2021
Poetry walk: A walking workshop around Dursley and Cam with writing prompts and readings as part of Dursley Welcomes Walkers.
2019
Poet in Residence at the International Conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal, University of Bath
See Concentration and Consideration: poetry at DDD14 published in the journal Mortality and The Unmapped Geography of Breath for my work resulting from this conference.
2018
‘Poetry for the Petrified’ workshop at Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Gloucestershire
Poet in residence at Gloucester Crematorium 2018, as part of the ‘Written in Stone’ collaborative project with Su Chard, Independent Funeral Celebrant
Workshop, reading and judging of ‘Hungry Hill Poets meets Politics’ competition 2018, at Castletownbere, Republic of Ireland
2017
Workshop and reading at Bailieborough Poetry Festival, Republic of Ireland
Workshop and reading in the Whiteroom, Castletownbere, Republic of Ireland
2016
Introduction to contemporary poetry: workshops with Nailsworth Book Group
A very interesting evening spent with Emily whose quiet persistence that the jumble of words written held some poetic substance was encouraging and surprising!
A thoroughly enjoyable evening. I didn't think I liked poetry but this workshop opened my eyes.
2015
Poetry workshop at Marazion Quaker Meeting House
2014
Workshop and reading at the Society of Medical Writers conference, Isle of Man
2012
Workshop at Penzance Literary Festival
2011
Workshop at Penzance Literary Festival
Empathy with Wordpower workshop for Gloucester GPs in training
2007
One day workshop at Under the Edge Arts, Wotton-under-Edge
Workshop at Buzzwords Cheltenham
2006
Workshop for staff and patients at Cotswold Care Hospice
2005
Stroud Arts Festival poetry workshop
Body Language poetry workshop for Lapidus South West group
An account of this workshop is published in
Lapidus Quarterly,
summer 2005.
2004
Stroud Arts Festival poetry workshop
2003
Starting to Write Arvon course with James Friel
2002
Workout with Words: a poetry project in a GP surgery
From this project I compiled and edited an anthology of poems by staff
and patients: Doorways: Poems from May Lane Surgery published by
May Lane Surgery, Dursley 2003.
For details see:
Workout with words—a poetry project in a GP surgery by Simon
Opher and Emily Wills, published in The British Journal of General
Practice, Volume 54 Number 499 February 2004 pages 156-7.