Benefit from the beautiful surroundings and location of the Barn Space to build the sense of place whether for novel, memoir or travel writing 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.