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Dominique is an author, PhD researcher, arts and health consultant and creativity and wellbeing coach. Co-founder of Creative Future, an arts charity supporting underrepresented artists and writers, she established the Creative Future Writers’ Awards. She has over twenty years’ experience of working creatively with people with complex needs.
Along with training arts and health professionals, coaching creatives to CEOs, she is a recipient of ARU’s VC’s PhD Scholarship, studying the therapeutic impact of community creative writing programmes, with a focus on underrepresented groups and effective evaluation for writing for wellbeing programmes.
She gained her MA in Creative Writing from UEA, has worked as a professional mentor for LAPIDUS, and is the facilitator for the Brighton and Hove Arts and Health Network. She is an Associate member of the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing, University of Brighton. Her portfolio career includes carnival costume construction, journalism, travel writing, children’s yoga and mindfulness teacher, and Charity Director. She is a passionate advocate for underrepresented writers and using creative writing to transform lives.
Email: dd652@pgr.aru.ac.uk
Publishing and Performed Work
Books
Rough Guide to Trinidad & Tobago. (Rough Guides, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2010)
Trinidad & Tobago section (Rough Guide to the Caribbean, Rough Guides, 2002)
Articles and Essays
Midnight Robber (Writing Routes, Eds. G. Bolton, V. Field & K. Thompson, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011)
Voices from the Streets (Writing Works, Eds. G. Bolton, V. Field & K. Thompson, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006)
Mentoring (LAPIDUS Journal, Spring 2006)
Write for Life (Roofless, Queenspark Books, 2006)
Working with the Homeless (LAPIDUS Journal, Autumn 2005)
Voices from the Street (Survivors Poetry, Autumn 2005)
I keep a pen where I once kept a knife (The Guardian, 1st February 2005)
Rapso Woman (Rough News, Rough Guides, 2003)
Dominique’s a mas maker not a lady! (Women Travel, Rough Guides, 1999)
Articles on Trinidadian arts & culture (Caribbean Way, Time Out to T&T, Tobago
Today, 1997-1999)
Short Stories
Cutting Free (The Insight newspaper, 2002) 2nd prize in ‘Tales of the City’ short story competition. Broadcast on BBC Southern Counties radio, 2006.
Masquerade (Firsthand, University of East Anglia, 2001) Novel extract.
Performed Work
Real Brighton (Radio Reverb, Brighton, 2007) First person narrative
Redroaster Slam (Redroaster Café, Brighton, 2006) Two-hander play.
D.H.W. (Nightingale Theatre, Brighton, 2005) Monologue directed by Annie Castledine.
The Circle Line (Radio play, rehearsed reading, 2003)