Community

Andy Croft has been active for many years in community writing projects, mostly on Teesside, including: director of the Writearound Festival, 1989 to 2000; organiser of monthly Poetry Live!/The Buzz/Crossing the Tees poetry readings, 1989-2008; member of organising committee, Teesside Musha'ara, 1990-99; editor, Mudfog Books, 1993-2003; editor of weekly page of readers’ poems and stories in the Evening Gazette, 1990-2000. He is the founder-director of T-junction, Teesside’s biannual international poetry festival, and runs the Ripon Poetry Festival.

Writing Residencies include the Hartlepool Headland, the Great North Run, the Southwell Poetry Festival, the Combe Down Stone Mines Project, HMP Holme House and HMP South Yorkshire.

Writing Residencies and Related Publications

HMP South Yorkshire, Doncaster, 2012-3

Writers in Prison Network

Forty-six Quid and a Bag of Dirty Washing

A novel about leaving prison.

SPCK/Diffusion

ISBN: 9781908713025

Bare Freedom

The sequel to Forty-six Quid and a Bag of Dirty Washing

SPCK/Diffusion

ISBN: 9781908713032