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OXFORD WRITING AND TRAINING 14 KINETON ROAD OXFORD OX1 4PG t 01865 723941 e

Principal: Jenny Lewis, MA Oxon MPhil

Jenny Lewis

Jenny Lewis ~ Photo: Helen Peacocke

Jenny Lewis is a poet and Creative Writing teacher who lives in Oxford and teaches on the Oxford University Creative Writing MSt.

She has worked for some time for the Equality and Human Rights Commission and has now moved on to set up a new venture, Oxford Writing and Training. Oxford Writing and Training aims to provide a range of courses for everyone interested in extending their creative writing and written communication skills. Jenny will work with the Pegasus Theatre, Ruskin College and Oxford University to develop writing and training courses for everyone regardless of age, race, sexual orientation, religion and belief or disability.

Jenny started running creative writing workshops for MIND in 1975 and has gone on to teach all kinds of writing including at schools, universities and for business. With Professor Lucy Newlyn at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Jenny ran the St Edmund Hall Creative Writing Workshops. These were funded by the Institute for the Advancement of University Learning and were designed to combine creative writing with critical analysis. The project helped pave the way for the setting up of the Oxford University Creative Writing MSt and resulted in two published volumes - Synergies: Creative Writing in Academic Practice - showing the results.

Trevor Phillips

Trevor Phillips OBE

Trevor Phillips OBE, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, who is the patron of Oxford Writing and Training says:
 

“In a world where effective expression has become vital to participation, the capacity to write well is more than a luxury for middle-class folk. It is one page of the passport to social mobility. Any effort to extend the capability to communicate beyond those who already have it is the modern-day mission to the disadvantaged.

Jenny Lewis has worked for the Equality and Human Rights Commission for a year and I know she is deeply committed to the principles of our organisation - to create a society built on fairness and respect, with people who are confident in all aspects of their diversity.

Her vision now is to develop writing and communication courses for everyone, regardless of age, gender, disability, race, sexual orientation or religion and belief. So that, in one of the most cultured and literate cities in the world, the benefits of culture and literacy are available to everyone.”

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