FOUNDER

Louise founded Inkhead in 2006, with its mission to get children writing and to truly express their creativity, free from judgement and fear.

A writer, journalist and editor in her own right, she holds an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has been teaching creative writing in schools for over 15 years and is an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing for the Open University.

HEAD OF OPERATIONS

John first joined Inkhead in 2015 as a creative writing tutor. John studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Warwick University and gained a Master’s in philosophy at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He then went on to gain his PGCE teaching qualification with QTS and taught at a variety of Prep and Primary schools across London.

He rejoined us in Summer 2023 and is closely involved with our 11+ creative writing products and services as well as managing our overseas clients, a field where he holds a CELTA in the provision of English as a foreign language.

John has started running a new online club aimed at children in Years 1, 2 and 3. See here for more info.

He is currently writing a novel called The Pests: The Chronicles of Pestia, a comedic account of the rule-breaking and rule-bending schoolchildren he taught over the last few years. Publication date 2024.

TUTOR

Caroline Druitt is a poet living in South East London. She graduated from the Creative and Life Writing MA at Goldsmiths with Distinction in 2022.

Caroline is an experienced creative writing facilitator, leading creative writing and poetry workshops with clients including PA consulting, University of the Arts London, Imperial College and Tara Bernard & Partners.

Caroline was longlisted for the Outspoken Prize for Page Poetry in 2023 and commended in the National Poetry Competition. With support from Arts Council England, she is currently working on her first collection of poetry.

TUTOR

Tymek has been a creative writing tutor since 2014. He has creative writing tutoring experience with all age groups, including but not limited to the 9+, the 11+, GCSE and A Level exams, the Cambridge ELAT and undergraduate level study.

In 2021, he received a PhD from University College London, writing about American poetry in the twentieth century. His first monograph, The Poetics of Agency: Action and Form in Postwar U.S. Poetry is under contract with Bloomsbury Academic.

Over the last few years, he has kept himself busy editing the literary journal Moveable Type, spending time as a Visiting Scholar at Yale University in the United States, teaching at various London universities and writing his first novel for young adults, Spirits of the Crossing.

Emma is an Oxford English graduate who spent many years editing and writing for one of the UK’s leading national newspapers, Telegraph Media group. Prior to this, she wrote and edited children’s English language teaching books for the Pearson group while living and working in Hong Kong.

Literature has always been her first love and, alongside her editing work, Emma now devotes her time to tutoring and inspiring English students from 11+ through to A-Level.

Emma has been tutoring students who struggle with English, as well as those who excel, since 2016. In addition to her degree, she holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism. She is currently working on a comprehension book for young people using 19th Century texts.

Her popular online 11+ club runs every Tuesday at 5.15. See here for more info.

TUTOR

Gemma Reeves graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University with distinction, and also holds an MA in Twentieth-Century Literature from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

She has been teaching creative writing for over a decade in mainstream schools and alternative education provisions, specialising in Creative Writing and GCSE English. She is also an academic mentor for creative writing charities who work with inner-city schools.

She has extensive experience co-writing and ghostwriting non-fiction books and journalism, and has written children’s storybooks for Nickelodeon. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, and the Bridport Prize.

Gemma’s first novel, Victoria Park, was published on January 2021. She’s been working as a creative writing for Inkhead since 2017.