Fiona Hamilton
Head of Programme, MSc Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes
fiona.hamilton@metanoia.ac.uk
Fiona Hamilton specialises in creative, expressive and reflective writing and devising projects with creative and therapeutic aims. She is a mentor and has extensive group and one-to-one experience of facilitating in the NHS and complementary healthcare, with community groups devising projects to raise awareness and challenge stigma, with young people in schools, and on experimental poetry and drama projects. She is Arts Lead for the National Centre for Integrative Medicine and at the University of Bristol teaches students who wish to complement clinical studies by exploring concepts of health and their own lives using poetry, movement, humour, conversation and reflective writing. Fiona has published drama scripts, poetry collections, radio pieces, and public art, and a play for live online audiences during the pandemic exploring the power of music and dance for healing. Particularly relevant to her CWTP role are published work for the book ‘Medicine, Health, and the Arts’, ‘Words and Thresholds’ in Scriptum Creative Writing Journal, and the books ‘Writing Routes’ and ‘Writing Works’.