Workshops

University of Liverpool logo and a dark blue bar with 'Continuing Education' in white text. The banner features a photo of the Royal Liver Building and the text 'For the sheer enjoyment of learning'
Phil has joined the University of Liverpool's Continuing Education Part-time Tutor Panel and will be teaching Creative Writing evening classes in Flash Fiction from early 2025.

Creative Writing Tutor — University of Liverpool Continuing Education (CE) programme.

In September 2024, Phil joined the CE Part-time Tutor Panel and will be teaching Creative Writing from the second semester of the 2024-25 academic year. He will teach an 8-week evening course in Flash Fiction between February and April 2025. Also, look out for one-off workshops and taster sessions from autumn 2024, including a workshop inspired by the Victoria Gallery & Museum (VG&M) exhibition, ‘Play of Light – A display of darkness and illumination.’

Exterior of FireFit Youth and Community Hub in Toxteth, Liverpool
On Wednesday 29 May 2024, Phil was invited to deliver a 2-hour short story workshop for 'Write Generation' — a group of 11–17-year-olds, at FireFit Youth and Community Hub in Toxteth, Liverpool. Write Generation is a creative writing development programme supported by Writing on the Wall.
Painting of the Baboo ship fallen over in Canning Graving Dock, Liverpool by E. D. M. Y.
‘Baboo overset in Canning Graving Dock, Liverpool’ by E D M Y. Collection of Merseyside Maritime Museum, 1987.248.2 — This painting was one of four writing prompts used in the Flashback: Canning Dock Flash Fiction Competition which Phil ran in summer 2023 in collaboration with Writing on the Wall and National Museums Liverpool.

In 2023, Phil ran the ‘Flashback: Canning Dock Flash Fiction Competition’ in collaboration with Writing on the Wall and National Museums Liverpool. This included providing writing exercises and prompts, delivering free creative writing workshops across several Merseyside libraries (Spellow, Garston, Toxteth and Birkenhead Central), and shortlisting the entries.

Flashback Canning Dock Flash Fiction final at the Museum of Liverpool
Special guest judge, poet Levi Tafari (left), announced the winner of the Flashback: Canning Dock Flash Fiction Competition, along with two runners-up, at a public event at the Museum of Liverpool on Saturday 28 October 2023.