
My journey
Professional Experience
Teacher of English Literature and Language
2005 to today
High school teaching takes your heart and mind to the limit every day. Teachers have to care, and they have to challenge the students in their care to stretch themselves in every lesson.
Poet
1995 to present
At University I read poetry more seriously than I had done before and knew I wanted to express myself in writing, in lines, in lyric. After an early success and setback I decided to get in the water and swim. I've surfaced now.
Writer
1998 to present
The journals will tell their own story, but mine is this. When I was a kid, I used to watch the other kids and the old people around and the workers and seers and I'd think, every one of them has a story. I knew I had. I just knew that the ordinary trials of being alive, of having visions and emotions and connections, all of it, they could move anyone to tears. And we hold all of it in these bodies.
After achieving an MA in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier, I started to write again. This time I won't stop it.
Gavin Ritchie Coaching
Wherever you want to take your writing, I can set you on your way.