Charlie has presented speech and music programmes on national and local stations including Radio 1, Radio 2, LBC, BBC London, Heart FM, Capital FM and BRMB. A former Birmingham Poet Laureate, she now mixes broadcasting with writing and performing poetry and working in schools. An ‘Artist in Residence’ at W.B.A. Football club for the ‘My Place or Yours’ project, she performed the resulting work at The Big Chill festival proudly wearing the striped club shirt. An experienced spoken word artist, she’s performed at numerous arts festivals, headlined the P.O.W. Litfest. Her one woman show ‘Buddhism and Ben & Jerrys’ previewed at the Bristol Old Vic for the Litup festival, and she’s currently working with the Decadent Divas writers who’ve performed a new show at Mac arts centre in Birmingham.
Charlie is passionate about working in schools and community settings using performance poetry to lift words off the page and encourage young people to find their voices and tell their own stories. She works with pupils in rural and inner city settings, in prisons and PRU’s, and is excited when pupils who struggle with literacy gain confidence in the spoken and written word. She is part of the new Midlands writers’ collective ‘Write Down Speak Up’, and is currently working on a children’s book.