Get to know… Anna Bianchi
For years I was a shadow artist, supporting others to fulfil their creative dreams while neglecting my own. I was exceptionally good at this task....
Get to know… Carys Shannon
Writing, nature, and creativity have always been the through lines of my life, but it wasn’t easy to claim my voice as a writer. I didn’t...
Get to know… Alex Murdock
I was never the most expressive person in the world; to say the least. It was my way as a child, to observe the world around me...
Get to know… Ruth Beecher
Writing Room has been a rock for me during very difficult times and circumstances. I am originally from Jamaica. I am a writer and I...
Get to know… Marco Crivellari
Why didn't I try to write before? Haven't I spent a whole life loving books and stories and finding characters, plots and lines of prose...
Get to know… Kathryn Bodenham
I was a reader, not a writer - all kinds of genres, all kinds of authors. But there were words in me. I could feel...
Get to know… Philip Palios
The reason I write is another thing that changed this year. Deep in the ‘core belief’ file I threw out my idea of changing people...
Get to know… Terry Sherwood
Paul's workshops at Writing Room are not like other online workshops. Paul, with verve and humour, leads you through a series of prompts to magically...
Get to know… Tony Westbrook
I was between jobs, and my wife gave me a present of a 6-week course at the Writing Room with Giovanna Iozzi on Life Writing....
Get to know… Tony Lee
I used to think I ran the planet and when I stopped, wondered how the world might get on without me (to be fair, not...
Get to know… Jonathan Izard
Hello. A little about me, you say? Well, I’ve been an actor and a broadcast journalist (BBC and LBC newsreader, DJ at Melody FM). I...
Get to know… Skye Lilly
When I started writing poems it came to me completely off guard. The pen was moving without me, just flowing the words out. After joining...
Get to know… Yasmin Jefferies
One of the best metaphors I know for telling stories and making sense of the world comes from looking at stars in the night sky....
Get to know… Jan Woolf
Currently pre-occupying me though is the run of my play, Blood Gold and Oil, which opens this Tuesday (25 April) at Gatehouse Theatre Highgate. I...
Get to know… Tatiana Strauss
With the pressures on commercial publishing, and with the availability of affordable digital printing, along with so many social channels / marketplaces on hand, more...
Get to know… Anne Theresia Wanders
Challenging my fears around speaking in front of groups I even read my poetry in the Student Showcases. The positive feedback and inspiration I found...
Get to know… Ruth Guthrie
Being a Writer – calling myself that – has been so empowering. I have a voice. This is such a profound thing. I felt invisible...
Get to know… Sue Dawson
We formed a charity, teaching filmmaking and literacy to prisoners. People started to tell their own stories and it was an enormous privilege to be...
Get to know Philippa writing as Eva Harlsband…
My journey to writing began through writing and performing one woman plays. Today writing historical fiction brings me joy and a creative outlet. It is...
Get to know… Jeff Probst
In September 2022 I published my second novel, When the Moon was White. I published my first, Bachelor Butterflies, in 1994. Over the years, I’ve...
Get to know… E.E.
I am a poet and artist from Egypt. I had the opportunity to work with the children's author Sita Brahmachari to develop my voice as a...
Get to know… Jehane Markham
I am a widow now. It is tough being on your own but I have my poetry and that keeps me going.
Get to know… Ralph Levinson
I had previously attended a few sessions at the City Lit but Writing Room has been a revelation. Love it. Thanks Kate, Alison, Paul, Kiare,...
Get to know… Zawadi Seas Justice
“I am an Artist!" It took many years for me to state this out loud and actually feel comfortable with it. I struggled to own...
Get to know… Alan Weguelin
In 2016, after living for a year in Ally Pally with my son and Edita my lovely daughter in law, she suggested I join something...
Get to know… Bev Mukherji
Proper writers were rarefied individuals who were never short of inspiration, wrote beautifully constructed sentences with ease and never needed to redraft. It couldn’t possibly...
Get to know… Amber Djemal
I am of Turkish Cypriot heritage, born and raised in North London. I loved creative writing as a young person, especially writing miserable stuff about...
Get to know… Aoife Sadlier
I am a writer, academic, editor, dancer and musician. Over the last seven years I have trundled down the unworldly path of early career academia....
Get to know… George Ayliffe
Often, we debate: do you prefer the film or the book? Recently, Frank Herbert’s Dune was given the cinematic treatment. A quick internet search gives...
Get to know Lys de Beaumont
And then the writing bug struck. I started to treat writing as a job, becoming more disciplined in getting those words out. I continued to...
Get to know… Georgia Sweet Stabb
Then through the Writing Room she meets an agent! Hooray. The yearning / words / novel are reaching someone. It’s a triumph. Things go on....
Get to know… Manjula Datta
The idea of writing Flash Fiction, as something new, attracted me. I enjoyed the course taught by Giovanna lozzi. It taught me how to write...
Get to know Nicola Gharibpour-Power
I was about told Writing Room at a local food bank and got a Bursary Place. I was on group therapy for depression but I...
Get to know… Nazrene Hanif
Writing is often seen as a solitary experience when really it is a team effort. From Virginia Woolf to Ocean Vuong, bell hooks to Maggie...
Get to know… Hannah Griffiths
An in-person course in a different part of London would not have been possible for me, but the switch to online life brought possibilities.
Get to know… Sonia Hope
Writing Room encourages community by keeping in touch with past and present students, inviting them to take part in further courses and projects. I am...
Get to know… John Stephens
What I find most inspiring about what Writing Room has to offer is the sharing of work and sensitive intelligent reading and feedback that is...
Get to know… Krishnendu Mukherjee
With time on my hands, Writing Room became my new friend! I have done so many courses at Writing Room now that I feel that...
Get to know… Wendy Shearer
My name is Wendy Shearer, and I’m a mum to two amazing daughters and two incredibly cheeky kittens. I’m an author and professional storyteller, regularly...
Get to know… Carl Heap
I was the founding Artistic Director of the ‘ground-breaking ‘ ‘legendary’ Medieval Players theatre company, which for 10 years toured the length and breadth of the UK...
Get to know… Sandra Howell
It is no exaggeration to say that writing is like breathing for me, it is instinctive, as a result of over three decades of writing....
Get to know… Alan White
I’m a retired academic and have been writing poetry for almost fifty years. Over the last two years I have also started to also write...
Get to know… Natasha Boydell
I signed up to the Prioritise Your Writing course starting in January 2020 after making it my new year’s resolution to finally achieve my lifelong...
Get to know… Angelina Melwani
I had just got re-married, sold my business and moved from Hertfordshire to Haringey. The hypercritic squatting in my head - and my hormones -...