Christine Cohen Park

The story so far: Aged ten and a half, in the first days of January 1953, leaving my mother and siblings behind in South Africa, I...

Now over 700 readers of my memoir "1953 In My Father's House" on Substack. If you're not one of them - stert here: ...

In Badminton’s reserved carriages of the train pulling into Paddington there was general jubilation, spirits were running high. The doors...

Boarding school was a foreign country: the distance from Brighton seemed equal to the distance from Cape Town. As Margaret Atwood...

The day for boarding school arrived. We set off straight after breakfast in my father’s highly-polished racing green Bentley. Griff, with...

Carole came to tea. Mrs Ash and Fay decided that we would have it out in the summerhouse – if the children were to make a mess, then not...

Dear Readers, this is my continuing memoir of arriving from South Africa, aged ten and a half, to live with my father (who I barely knew)...

The fight took place one January afternoon with a cold wind blowing off the sea. When it bit into us you could smell the salt. There were...

Other writers talk of fully entering the world of adult literature and consuming volumes from public libraries, or should they be lucky...

The next Needlewriters evening will be on Thursday 13th June 2024, featuring Charlotte Gann (poetry), Christine Cohen Park (prose),...

Breakfast arrangements in my father’s house were a surprising affair. The first person to arrive was his youngest brother, my uncle...

So there I was, on the threshold of my father’s house in the first days of 1953. It is situated on a wide avenue that divides Brighton...

The author Sorrel Pitts came to my attention back in February, when she wrote an article for BookBrunch about her thirty-year journey to...

One well-trodden route a writer may take while awaiting answers from publishers and agents is, get on with the next book. A strategy...

Christine is giving a reading from her new novel Bye Bye Apartheid Road at the next Needlewriters event: 6.30 on June 13th, at the John...

Mason, Anita Frances (1942–2020), novelist, journalist, and essayist, was born at Bristol Maternity Hospital, 50 Southwell Street,...

“In a chaotic world acquiring books is a balancing act on the edge of the abyss.” Wrote Walter Benjamin in Unpacking My Library. The same...

You send your book out into the world – the world of agents and publishers – and then you are in the waiting game. One of the pleasures...

Creageivity 14 - with Christine Cohen Park ......... https://www.buzzsprout.com/2160581/episodes/14606637

Just published in Writing Magazine March 2024 For us older writers – I’m 81 – an article by Amelia Hill in the Guardian in the early...