PATRICK RYAN

The Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture (CCWOC) is pleased to introduce its Fall 2011 Writer/Storyteller-in-Residence, PATRICK RYAN.

PATRICK RYAN has worked as a teacher and professional storyteller for over 30 years. He regularly tours Britain, Europe and the US performing, lecturing and conducting workshops. Pat has written for the BBC and has participated in several major storytelling projects, among them 'Living Stories of the World', a multi-cultural workshop for primary children in inner- and outer-London; 'Kick into Reading' and 'Sports Stories', which unite footballers and coaches with schoolchildren through reading; 'Listen Up!' an innovative, long-term storytelling residency in Northern Ireland schools that utilizes storytelling as a means of teaching and learning; and 'Writing Together', a project looking at the impact of writer and storyteller residencies upon teaching and learning. Now based in London, Pat grew up in Illinois, where he attended the Universities of Illinois and Chicago. He taught primary school in the USA and Britain for ten years and, in 2004, he completed his doctoral degree at the University of Glamorgan, where he is a research fellow at the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling.  For more info visit www.patryanstoryteller.co.uk/index.html.  For a video of some of Patrick's work, please click here.

He will be in residence from September 19 to December 2, 2011.