Zoe Antoniades

Zoe Antoniades graduated from the University of Hull with a degree in English and Drama and later trained as a teacher at the Institute of Education.

She has taught in Lambeth and Hounslow specialising in music and the creative arts; teaching classes, running workshops, directing musical theatre productions and managing large scale entertainment events.  As an Arts specialist, Zoe has worked on a wide range of creative projects in partnership with the Southbank Centre, the Royal Albert Hall, the Young Vic and Polka Theatre, Music for Youth and Film Club.

Zoe also provides tuition in English (up to A-Level) and Maths (up to KS3) and offers a professional writing service for adults, supporting them with the completion of documents such as personal statements for UCAS forms and job applications.

Her Invincible Voices company provides creative writing sessions and music and drama production workshops for young people across London.

Zoe has written the school story Staircase to Nowhere and a memoir Tea and Baklavas which won the Winchester Writers’ Festival Memoir Prize and is published in Winchester University’s Best of 2015.

Zoe also writes collaboratively with young people, publishing anthologies of short stories through Invincible Voices.

Imaginative and exciting ideas are developed together through the process of shared writing, resulting in collections of short stories which are published professionally through Matador press.