Hobo Magazine was based in Coventry in the 70's but in 1980 Trevor left Coventry to do a degree up north in
Middlesbrough. After the degree and some ground work - Trevor launched a new magazine called Outlet. The focus then was on Creative Writing rather than music, working at a grass roots level, Trevor was involved in pioneering the Creative Writing movement in an area regarded as a cultural desert by some. The first initiatives were performance venue based, building on work he'd started with the Hobo Workshop in Coventry. There was the Multi Media society at Teesside Poly and the New Poetry
Scene at the Dovecot Arts Centre in Stockton and much more. In 1986 Outlet was lauched, a grassroots poetry magazine covering the whole of the
Teesvalley area. It went out free through the Cleveland library network and was funded by Northern Arts and Clevealnd County Coucil - libraries and Leisure. Trev tutored Creative Writing classes around the whole area for the Workers Educational Association and Leeds university Adult education in the Cleveland area and there was an interation between the classes and the magazines in encouraging new writers who had been made redundant, housewives and more experienced poets. From the at base Trevor established a range of writers groups in the area and an annual Writing festival Write Around. This ground work led to further developments by the powers that be. In 1990 the Outlet editorial team consisting of Trev Teasdel, Terry Lawson, Viv Harland, Pauline Plummer and Mel McEvoy - and later Margaret Weir, Andy Croft, Richard Briddon and Mark Beevers, made an Open Space programme about the work of OUTLET magazine. It was a long film but cut down to 10 minutes as the half hour programme was shared with two other grups from the North East. This is the film -
Trevor is redeveloping the OUTLET History Site about the Cleveland / Teesvalley Creative Writing Movement.
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