A Zambian Story – by Roger Barton

This story is about my experience of working in Zambia during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. It is a factual account of what happened to the lives of ordinary people, during a crisis when its major export commodity, copper, declined in price. During these years, the country was a so-called ‘front-line state’ in the [...]

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Every man’s memory is his private literature – Aldous Huxley

We saw some fascinating things at the Leeds Museum Discovery Centre on Friday. Many of these things would have been considered quite ordinary by the people who used them in their everyday lives years ago. But to us, in 2008, they are a window into the past; a window through which we can see [...]

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Independence Day

Pudsey and Calverley writers groups are a lively and independent lot who know just how they want things to be done. This was apparent on Friday when the group were asked to start work on a writing exercise during the workshop based around the photographs and objects they had brought in with them.
We soon [...]

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The First Day Of The Second World War And Other Stories

It’s asking quite a lot of people to give up the comfort of their home on a cold February evening and to take a chance on a creative writing workshop with a bunch of people they’ve mostly never met before. So bearing this in mind I think its safe to say that the first Relay [...]

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