Writers Mentor for Writers-in-Prison Network

2001 onwards

Resident Writer at HM Prison Grendon

18 months 1999-2000 - Britain’s only prison to be run entirely as a theraputic community

Resident Playwright at Lancaster University

2 terms 1995 developing scripts by undergraduate and postgraduate students

Resident Playwright at The Acting School, Manchester Metropolitan University

12 months 1994-95 – devising and scripting shows with actors in vocational training

Poet in Residence for the homeless with Notts County Council

6 months 1994, working with the young homeless people alongside a visual artist to produce a touring exhibition of words and photos

Resident Writer for Cheshire Year of Culture

12 months 1993 – based in libraries throughout Cheshire

Resident Writer with Opera London

3 months 1993, working with female prisoners at Holloway and with ‘vulnerable’ prisoners at Pentonville

Resident Playwright in Market Harborough

3 months in 1992 developing scripts by local writers for a showcase of new work

Resident Playwright at Lancaster University

2 terms / year 1991 & 92 developing scripts by undergraduate and postgraduate students

Resident Playwright for Opera North in Mansfield

18 months 1991-92 - developing a community opera with local writers

Poet-in-Residence for Cheshire Arts & Libraries

6 months 1990-91 – based in Warrington & Congleton

Arts Council Resident Dramatist with Welfare State International

18 months 1989-90 developing scripts by local writers/writing 2 commissioned plays and devising shows with target groups for inclusion in the "Shipyard Tales" festival

Resident Writer at H.M.Prison Stocken

12 months 1987/88, one of the first writers to work in a British prison on a major residency

Other Credits and Titles:

Co-Founder/Director of Lonesome Trail Pictures Ltd 2000.

Co-Founder/Artistic Director of BIG Theatre Co Ltd 2001.

Kevin has given hundreds of poetry readings in almost every conceivable venue, run thousands of creative writing workshops and judged several regional and national poetry and play competitions.

Kevin also ran a national poetry venue in the eighties in the North West called Stand & Deliver which published "Zip" magazine (funded by N.W.Arts) and was editor of The Amazing Colossal Press for two years, publishing individual collections of poetry by emerging writers.

Elected Director of Board of Manchester City of Drama 1994

Chair of East Midlands Arts Literature Panel 1991-2

Director of Board of North West Playwrights’ 1995

Member of the Arts Council steering group which set up the Writers-in-Prison scheme 1989-1991

Poet-in-Residence at the weekend international conference on arts in prisons by Theatre in Prisons & Probation (T.I.P.P.) 1997

Kevin has set up a number of production companies in film, theatre and literature which has involved me in fundraising and employing artists with budgets up to £45k.

Artistic Director of Notts.County Council youth theatre 1987-88.

Co-ordinator of Project oneOone for 3 months, a funded community literature project in Haslingden, Lancs in 1998.

For 6 years, Kevin led a successful national campaign for the release of prisoner Anthony Alexandrowicz, including a Granada T.V. documentary, "The Curious Case of Alex".

Also campaigned for the successful release of Paul Blackburn whose conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal in 2005.