1953 in My Father’s House IV Feeling My Way
I decided to give up Enid Blyton. The adventures of The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, Mallory Towers and St Clare’s had been enthralling...
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Christine Cohen Park
Christine Cohen Park
- Jun 4
- 1 min
I'll be giving a reading from my new novel at Needlewriters, Lewes on 13th June
The next Needlewriters evening will be on Thursday 13th June 2024, featuring Charlotte Gann (poetry), Christine Cohen Park (prose),...
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Christine Cohen Park
- May 19
- 1 min
Next Instalment of my Memoir - Doors Opening and Closing
Breakfast arrangements in my father’s house were a surprising affair. The first person to arrive was his youngest brother, my uncle...
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Christine Cohen Park
- May 12
- 1 min
Here's the second instalment of my memoir - 1953 In My Father's House. II Introducing a new character
So there I was, on the threshold of my father’s house in the first days of 1953. It is situated on a wide avenue that divides Brighton...
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Christine Cohen Park
- May 8
- 3 min
In conversation with Sorrel Pitts, the author of Broken Shadows, on her publishing journey
The author Sorrel Pitts came to my attention back in February, when she wrote an article for BookBrunch about her thirty-year journey to...
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Christine Cohen Park
- Apr 22
- 1 min
Read the beginning of Christine's Memoir
One well-trodden route a writer may take while awaiting answers from publishers and agents is, get on with the next book. A strategy...
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Christine Cohen Park
- Apr 16
- 1 min
Christine is giving a reading from her new novel Bye Bye Apartheid Road
Christine is giving a reading from her new novel Bye Bye Apartheid Road at the next Needlewriters event: 6.30 on June 13th, at the John...
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Christine Cohen Park
- Apr 16
- 1 min
Anita Mason's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography written by Christine
Mason, Anita Frances (1942–2020), novelist, journalist, and essayist, was born at Bristol Maternity Hospital, 50 Southwell Street,...
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Christine Cohen Park
- Mar 24
- 3 min
How Sharing Stories Can Save Lives: The importance of oral storytelling in a crisis
“In a chaotic world acquiring books is a balancing act on the edge of the abyss.” Wrote Walter Benjamin in Unpacking My Library. The same...
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Christine Cohen Park
- Mar 14
- 1 min
My Slushpile Odyssey IV: The Waiting Game
You send your book out into the world – the world of agents and publishers – and then you are in the waiting game. One of the pleasures...
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Christine Cohen Park
- Mar 2
- 1 min
Check Adrienne Thomas and Harlan Cockburn's Creageivity podcast interview with Christine
Creageivity 14 - with Christine Cohen Park ......... https://www.buzzsprout.com/2160581/episodes/14606637
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Christine Cohen Park
- Feb 20
- 4 min
More Room at the Top
Just published in Writing Magazine March 2024 For us older writers – I’m 81 – an article by Amelia Hill in the Guardian in the early...
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Christine Cohen Park
- Feb 19
- 4 min
Slushpile Odyssey 3 - Three Rules
‘There are three rules for writing a novel, unfortunately no one knows what they are,’ Somerset Maugham is credited with saying. Maugham...
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Christine Cohen Park
- Feb 11
- 4 min
Slushpile Odyssey – Awaiting Answers
I have submissions out now, with a bit of an introduction, at least a name and a letter on my behalf, so not exactly freefall – and I am...
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Christine Cohen Park
- Jan 25
- 4 min
Will 'Distilled Wisdom' Work on my Slushpile Odyssey?
Last year I read a heartening article in the Guardian claiming that women into their seventies and even eighties are hot property when it...
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Christine Cohen Park
- Dec 18, 2023
- 1 min
FridayReads - Christine's book recommendations
Please check out my videos.... Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MW8OjTFSKU&t=95s Papyrus by Irene...
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Christine Cohen Park
- Dec 13, 2023
- 1 min
Having the last word
I wrote a piece for Writing Magazine online about my dear late friend, the writer Anita Mason........................
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