what I do
In my capacity of teacher and workshop leader, I deliver and facilitate workshops in literature and creative writing for young people and adults. I am a qualified, experienced and CRB checked teacher of English language and literature and TESOL/EAL. I can offer a range of one-off or short or long term tailoredpackages to suit your school or organisation if you are based in the UK or Middle East. Please contact me to find out more.
elisabeth_charis@hotmail.co.uk
+44 (0)7905 653 501 UK
+963 (0)990 482 854 Syria
When I get down to the business of writing I tend to explore our relationship with time and place, nature, freedom and responsibility, that good ol’ fashioned notion, ‘love’, the journey we are all on within ourselves and what it means to be a woman trying to relate, in our world, now. This last is sometimes called feminism but, like the other themes, it is really just a questioning of the world from the only perspective I know. Most importantly, I just try to be honest, though that can be the hardest thing.
Though I work in education at the moment some of my work gets in the way of this necessary thing- writing- but I am working on working less, working better, working on, working on…
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so, wait!
Don’t push it.
Let it whisper.
Let it whisper through you.
Let it shimmer like a breeze,
Softly singing over the old bones
Of your deep forest,
Singing over the old bones,
Singing over the soft edge of reason,
Dropping over the steep ledge of your dreaming season.
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If you would like to talk about the small sample of poetry on this site, you can contact me on elisabeth_charis@hotmail.co.uk