“Oh I think writers’ centres are so important! They create a chance to learn, to connect and communicate, to share ideas and knowledge, and build a sense of community among writers, who spend so much time alone. I encourage anyone who loves to write to join! Even if writing is not to be your career, it is still a place where you can meet kindred spirits and explore something you love to do.”

As the year is drawing to a close, we’re leaving you with some great titles to have a look at over your Christmas break. Jane McCredie, Executive Director I finally caught up with Ferrante fever, devouring all four of the Neapolitan novels in a month. I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes them so […]

We’ve been reading a little bit of everything lately, and travelling the world through books, from Armenia to America and revolutionary Russia. Here’s what the staff at the Centre have been reading and plan to read this August. Cassie Watson, Administration Officer After spending most of last month reading Primo Levi’s If This Is a […]

For those of you who missed our Talking Writing evening on ‘Monsters and Baddies in Kids and YA Fiction’ with writer Matt Finch, author Kate Forsyth and Masters student Nyssa Harness, who studies zombies, here’s a recap from our intern, Jessica Sanford. Kate kicked off the evening by talking about the dangers of censoring fairytales, […]

‘I read the five books in The Dark is Rising sequence one after another, that week of my thirteenth birthday, and they have haunted me ever since. Vivid and compelling, filled with brooding atmosphere and a strong sense of danger, the books are steeped in myth, mystery, and magic.’