Kevin is an experienced workshop facilitator capable of creating engaging and bespoke courses for a variety of abilities and age levels. From schools to prisons, charities to universities; Kevin has successfully facilitated hundreds of workshops - each one inspiring people to create, to use their voice and be heard.
He specialises in inclusive learning practices, engaging reticent participants and encouraging personal experience as a source of poetic inspiration. Using performance techniques to build confidence in public speaking and writing exercises to facilitate self-expression, Kevin’s workshops look to create an organic love of poetry through active participation.
Kevin is the founder of digital writing collective The Scribbler’s Union - a weekly workshop series that went on to become a diverse poetry community boasting members all over the globe and helped launch the careers of a new generation of talented performers. He has since founded The Verse Foundry, an in-person poetry workshop series based in Glasgow providing a springboard for a cohort of aspiring writers to learn the skills needed to create authentic and imaginative work.
Kevin has facilitated workshops for the likes of The Poetry Society, The Scottish Book Trust, The Scottish Poetry Library, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Unite Union, The Prince's Trust, Glasgow University, University of the West of Scotland, Toonspeak Youth Theatre, the Scottish Youth Poetry Slam as well as countless schools, libraries and local authorities around the country. Kevin is a certified member of the Scottish Book Trust’s Live Literature Database and holds an up-to-date PVG certificate.