Charlotte Wetton
Charlotte is particularly interested in place writing, found text and helping people access history and heritage through writing and performance. She has run workshops in creative writing and spoken word performance for all ages with the National Literacy Trust, Bradford Industrial Museum, the Bronte Parsonage and the University of Huddersfield amongst others.
Charlotte’s first publication I Refuse to Turn into a Hat-stand won the Michael Marks Awards 2017. She has performed at Aldeburgh and Ledbury and StAnza festivals and is a regular guest reader across the North. Her work has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and at the Manchester Festival of Libraries. She received a New Writing North award in 2019. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester; her research interests are eighteenth-century labouring-class voices and poetic inquiry methedology. She has taught literature and creative writing at the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University. Her second publication, Accessioning, is out with The Emma Press.
She has experience of working with cancer patients and mental health service users and their families.
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