British Council

After her two years in London, MR spent some months of 1973-4 working in Bangkok as a librarian for the British Council . She had applied for the job on impulse, almost whimsically, and quickly...

In 2004 she conducted a creative workshop in Karachi for the five winners of a national writing competition sponsored by the British Council in Pakistan for the I Belong International Story Chain project. Among these...

She is a reader for the Literary Consultancy and a mentor with Crossing Borders, an on-line project run by the British Council to support African writers. She also teaches for the MA in Creative...

EB began lecturing for the British Council , with a first tour to Czechoslovakia and Austria.

Her heritage is multicultural. She calls herself French-American, as her American parents raised her in a village near St-Jean-de-Luz, in the Basque region of France. She commented in one interview that although she has...

The Leamington Poetry Society published a 4-page leaflet (plus cover) of EJ 's poems, titled with her name, in March 1987. Twelve years later the British Council published an audiocassette of poetry which features her...

AL has had her short fiction read on BBC Radio 4 . Her story Deborah appeared in volume 7 of the British Council 's New Writing, 1998, alongside far more established names. Loose Change...

JS was, with Helen Dunmore , U. A. Fanthorpe , and Elizabeth Jennings , one of the four poets featured in no. 5 of the audio-cassette series The Poetry Quartets, issued today by the...

AS called her next poetry volume Four and A Half Dancing Men; its title poem had appeared in the British Council 's anthology New Writing 2 earlier the same year.

AS has continued to contribute poems to many of the available outlets: journals like PN Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Wales, Poetry Ireland, The...