Theresa Gooda
Writer
Theresa (Ted) Gooda writes poetry, plays and short stories and is the ghost writer of a series of Sunday Times top-10 bestselling memoirs.
What’s new?
BOOK LAUNCH: The Misses Beck of Billingshurst
Ellen and Edith Beck lived in Billingshurst from 1901 until their deaths. They were widely know for their work and philanthropy in the local area, but there is more to their story.
Active in the suffrage movement and friends with Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, they weren’t afraid to fight for what they believed in.
This microhistory gathers together what is known about these two remarkable women. Written in collaboration with historian Caroline Newell, this work commemorates a pair of unassuming radicals whom history might have been in danger of forgetting, women who changed the face of their local village forever and also made their mark in the national fight for female suffrage.
Ted will host the Foraging Pigs Open Mic Poetry Night with Liz Barnes at the Kings Arms Upstairs on the 6th November 2025. Get your ticket here.
Ted Gooda presents Banishing the Branks (2024, Silence & Selvedge)
Ghost-writing for Louise Allen, the first book in the explosive new Slave Girls series was published in April 2025 and the second came out in August.
Ted Gooda’s new play, Mannequim, co-written with Lexy Medwell, has recently premiered at BilliLit, before it transferred to the Brighton Fringe in May and June 2025.
Mannequim is the tale of Micki and Lexy, two school friends who try to understand the confusing pressure of gender conformity as children and struggle to navigate gender identity into adulthood. It’s a story of friendship, communication, failure, love, loss, pain and self-discovery.
Is it a play? Is it a poem? No! It’s a one-act ploem: a unique mix of dialogue, contemporary poetry and contraverse which explores the ways in which society attempts to define the way we are perceived by controlling and framing our bodies at different stages of life - and what we can do about it!
If you missed the show, you can still buy a copy of the script or checkout the photographs from performances at The Actors Theatre and The Brunswick.
Step forward in solidarity
Ted Gooda performed as part of the Shelley Memorial Project International Women’s Day 2025 event at Waterstones Horsham. Celebrating the strength, resilience, and achievements of women via the medium of poetry, Ted Gooda performed alongside fellow poets Liz Barnes, Kate Collier and Nicola Garrard to raise £500 for the SMP.
Writing as Ted Gooda, Theresa’s debut poetry pamphlet Silence & Selvedge was published in September 2024
Thrown Away Children
Theresa has ghostwritten ten books in the Sunday Times bestselling Thrown Away Children series, writing as Theresa McEvoy with Louise Allen, with an eleventh planned for publication in 2025