Develop compelling characters with Mary Allen, designer of our 4 creative writing workshops for 2025. With Mary’s guidance  you will both understand the process by which you create characters you’ll write about, and the way a character changes through the course of a novel.

Mary has worked in the arts all her life, initially as an actor and subsequently as Chief Executive to Arts Council England and The Royal Opera House. She started writing fifteen years ago, drafting several novels and many poems. She is a graduate of the prestigious MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where some our greatest contemporary novelists Including Ian McEwan, Anne Enright and Stephen Fry honed their craft.