Unsung Heroes, again

About 6 months ago, I wrote about a wonderful initiative taken on by three women living in Australia. They decided to create a book of text and pictures dedicated to promoting the work of some of Cambodia’s most notable NGO’s. They decided to include...
Writers Helping the Philippines

Writers Helping the Philippines

I usually don’t post three times a week, but I couldn’t let another day go by without saying something about Typhoon Haiyan. But really, what is there to say? Now’s not the time for talk, but rather for action. And so I’d like to point everyone...

Colin Bell: Stephen Dearsley's Summer of Love

  I’m very pleased to be able to present another Great Conversation. This time, I’m chatting with a novelist/poet whose work I have very much grown to admire, and not only because he is a fellow Ward Wood writer.   Colin Bell is a very talented man...

Where are the Women Playwrights?

The theatre in London has been an important part of my career in the arts from the start. My first published work was the poetry play, Dreams of May. That led to the founding of the charity CurvingRoad, the production of plays both in the fringe and the West End, and...