Penny Grennan is an experienced writer and creative writing tutor, with a background in Archaeology, who writes both poetry and prose. She led a community based creative writing workshop in Hexham.

The writing group comprised 9 people all of whom were experienced writers. The aim of the workshop was to allow for freedom of ideas based on structured activities, which resulted in historical writing, monologues, reports and contemporary poetry being produced.

Penny's work reflects the spirit of place as well as the physical form of the remains, with one poem mimicking the layout of a roman fort. Her work is accessible, thought provoking and often humorous.

Participants of the creative writing workshops created work which spanned a range of forms and centuries, including a long thin piece of writing of 81 lines that had been written by the group as if they were playing consequences.

In the Bathhouse

Stone for St. Oswald Hill Head Farm

A Report from the Border

Line of Hadrian’s Wall

Triolet

An interest in Public Transport

Cleanliness is next to Godliness

Countdown

We are the sand boys