Work on creating a compelling narrative with Mary Allen, designer of our 4 creative writing workshops for 2025. 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. 

She has recently written a pamphlet of poems about her experience of stopping the Royal Opera House from going bankrupt - which was Highly Commended in the 2023 Interactional Pamphlet Competition. She lives in both Brighton and Aldeburgh, and has started leading creative writing workshops for writers of all levels of experience.