Lynda Tavakoli facilitates an adult creative writing class in Lisburn and is a tutor for the Community Arts Partnership, Seamus Heaney Awards for schools. A poet, fiction writer and freelance journalist, Lynda’s writings have been widely published in the UK, Ireland, the US and the Middle East. She has been winner of both poetry and short story prizes in Listowel, the Westival International Poetry Prize, and placed in several International poetry competitions. Lynda is the recipient of an Individual Emergency Resilience Programme Grant, awarded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
