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Get to know… Carys Shannon

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  • March 28, 2025
  • Children's Writing
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...
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Get to know… Alex Murdock

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  • November 29, 2024
  • Creative Writing
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...
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Get to know… Marco Crivellari

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  • March 1, 2024
  • Creative Writing
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...
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Get to know… Kathryn Bodenham

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  • February 16, 2024
  • Creative Writing
I was a reader, not a writer - all kinds of genres, all kinds of authors. But there were words in me. I could feel...
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Get to know… Philip Palios

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  • October 27, 2023
  • Creative Writing
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...
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Get to know… Tony Westbrook

  • Admin
  • July 28, 2023
  • Creative Writing
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....
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Get to know… Tony Lee

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  • July 14, 2023
  • Creative Writing
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...
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Get to know… Jonathan Izard

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  • June 16, 2023
  • Creative Writing
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...
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Get to know… Yasmin Jefferies

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  • April 28, 2023
  • Creative Writing
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....
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Get to know… Jan Woolf

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  • April 21, 2023
  • Creative Writing
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...
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