List Of Writers

APLIN, JACKIE

Email: jackieaplin2004@hotmail.com

Communications Officer to Welsh Assembly Member and media researcher at University of Glamorgan. Cardiff born and based, educated at Manchester Metropolitan University, she was Welsh Labour Press Officer for nearly eleven years. She edited Making Waves in the Bay and published collections including poetry and prose. She worked for BBC Wales and Wales on Sunday and had freelance articles and photographs in The Observer, The Stage, Western Mail and others. She wrote TV comedy for Pauline Quirke, and also an award–winning stage play Standard Deviation. Other awards include Welsh Arts Council short–story competition. She ran long-running writing workshops in CBC (now Red Dragon FM), St David’s Hall and Cardiff Library and performed poetry in Cabaret 246.

Selected Publications:
Kissin’s for Sissies (Red Sharks Press, 1987)
Write Away (HTV, 1991)

Contributed to:
Tastes of Tiger Bay (editor) (Making Waves)



Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
Workshops tailored to group’s needs. Experienced with range of groups, especially women, on subjects including unblocking, marketing, writing as therapy, journalism, writing our own history, etc. Talks and workshops on effective media communications.

AGE RANGE: 16 upwards for own work and talks; 8 upwards for workshops.