Christine Cohen Park

Breakfast arrangements in my father’s house were a surprising affair. The first person to arrive was his youngest brother, my uncle...

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...

The author Sorrel Pitts came to my attention back in February, when she wrote an article for BookBrunch about her thirty-year journey to...

One well-trodden route a writer may take while awaiting answers from publishers and agents is, get on with the next book. A strategy...

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...

Mason, Anita Frances (1942–2020), novelist, journalist, and essayist, was born at Bristol Maternity Hospital, 50 Southwell Street,...

“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...

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...

Creageivity 14 - with Christine Cohen Park ......... https://www.buzzsprout.com/2160581/episodes/14606637

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...

‘There are three rules for writing a novel, unfortunately no one knows what they are,’ Somerset Maugham is credited with saying. Maugham...

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...

Last year I read a heartening article in the Guardian claiming that women into their seventies and even eighties are hot property when it...

Christine talks about her writing style

Please check out my videos.... Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MW8OjTFSKU&t=95s Papyrus by Irene...

I wrote a piece for Writing Magazine online about my dear late friend, the writer Anita Mason........................