The Project Team

Belona Greenwood 

Bel was awarded Arts and Humanities Research Board Funding to take an MA in Scriptwriting at the University of East Anglia, after she won the Theatre Prize for a screenplay about the Bosnian war. A former journalist, she was awarded an Escalator to write a book of creative non-fiction about unmarried mothers and is a winner of the Decibel Penguin Prize for Life Writing. Her most recent full length stage play is Little Eden, a satire on nationalism which after its initial run formed part of Refugee Week and the Being Human Festival in 2015. Other plays include Alice's Adventure produced as part of Tribunal 12, Europe in the Dock at 2012's Norfolk and Norwich Festival. She is co-director of Chalk Circle Theatre Company alongside Adina Levay and Kate Cox and founder and co-organiser of Words and Women with Lynne Bryan, (see below), which supports and celebrates women writers in the East of England. She is an experienced creative writing tutor of both adults and children.

Heidi Williamson is a poet, tutor, and writing coach. She has worked in schools, museums, private companies and as a writer-in-residence. She studied poetry and prose at the UEA, and reads and delivers workshops regularly throughout the UK. 

As an accredited Writing Coach, Heidi helps creative writers in 1:1 sessions both privately and through Writers Centre Norwich. She is a professional member of the Association for Coaching. She has many years’ experience developing and delivering writing workshops for adults and children from 6 to 18, for varying levels and abilities.

In 2008 and 2009 Heidi was writer-in-residence for the London Science Museum’s Dana Centre. From 2011-2014 she was writer-in-residence at the John Jarrold Printing Museum. This included outreach work to people who might not have been aware of or especially interested in contemporary poetry.

Her first collection ‘Electric Shadow’ (Bloodaxe, 2011) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry. ‘The Print Museum’, her next collection, is due out with Bloodaxe in March 2016.

Anna Brett has over 10 years’ project management experience, in both the public and private sectors. Her most recent work has been collaborative arts based projects, for which she has raised and managed all the funds. She worked as the Extended Schools Coordinator for Wymondham Primary Cluster for seven years and formulated, raised funds for and managed many cross cluster projects including the community event Tastes of Wymondham; the WW1 project, performance and exhibition Wymondham's Great War and the literacy project Every Child is A Writer. 

Lynne Bryan is the author of a short story collection, Envy At The Cheese Handout (published by Faber & Faber), and the novels Gorgeousand Like Rabbits (Sceptre). Her work has been broadcast on the radio and adapted for film. She is co-organiser of Words and Women and has edited three anthologies of prose writing for the organisation (published by Unthank Books). She is the co-ordinator of the UEA English Literature summer school run in conjunction with the exam-awarding body AQA.

Rose Cowan graduated from Norwich University College of The Arts in 2015 with a first in Illustration. She has designed book covers for the literary organisation Words & Women and the publisher Hodder & Stoughton. Her work has been exhibited at Temple Newsam and Glasgow Book Fair, and was recently long-listed for the John Ruskin drawing prize. She works as a volunteer print technician for Norwich-based Print to The People.