Tara Gould is an award-winning writer, nature artist, and meditation teacher. Her recent work highlights through story and experiences how nature and the human are bound together, exploring landscape, change and loss, and how creation and celebration can emerge from the uncertainty and turbulence of life.
Since the start of the pandemic, she has worked with local organisations facilitating guided nature walks, nature journaling and mindful writing workshops that draw on literature, art and wildlife to help individuals deepen their relationship with the natural world and find solace and inspiration.
Tara is a former writer-in-residence at Preston Park Recovery Centre, a previous Arvon Award and Spotlight Award winner, and is currently writing a book of nature stories set at Tide Mills for which she is receiving the support of The Literary Consultancy and Creative Future.
Tara has worked within the community across East Sussex with low income and unemployed people, underrepresented writers and vulnerable people in partnership with a number of charities and organisations including:
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The Oyster Project, Creative Future, Scope, Pause, Preston Park Recover Centre, Lewes House of Friendship, East Sussex Count County, Brighton and Hove Adult Education Hub.
With a Masters in Art, Education and Creative Writing Tara brings over twenty years of experience as a creative writing tutor to the table. She has a history of supporting emerging writers and founded the curated short story cabaret Short Fuse at Komedia in Brighton to provide a platform for local writing talent and more recently The Small Story Cabaret in Lewes.
Tara is a keen hiker with a passion for nature and an intimate knowledge, built up over 25 years of residence, of the wildlife and landscape of East Sussex and the SDNP. She is passionate about the power of nature to restore balance and improve mental health and wellbeing. She recently collaborated with digital artist Thomas Buckley and a number of Brighton based community organisations to create this short film, How Moth the Night is, exploring nature and memory. It was shown as part of the Third Thursday arts, music, and culture programme https://www.creativefuture.org.uk/new-story/how-moth-the-night-is/
