linda lee welch

community


Linda Lee has worked extensively on community writing projects with adults and children in the Sheffield area and has edited the fiction anthologies Writers Write, Readers Paint the Pictures (WEA, 2002) and Clippings from the 'Edges (Sheffield Hallam University, 2006).

She has also contributed to Road Safety Poetry (Development, Environment and Leisure Directorate, Sheffield, 2009) and is a member of writetolive.com - a group of community artists who work in schools.


The Sheffield Haiku Project, developed by Bank Street Arts in conjunction with Sheffield Children's Festival 2010, consists of a trail of poems written by over 600 schoolchildren on display in the galleries at Bank Street and at locations throughout the City Centre. Linda Lee was one of a group of poets who worked with the children in a series of workshops to produce the poems.