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Christine Cohen Park

How Sharing Stories Can Save Lives: The importance of oral storytelling in a crisis
“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...
Christine Cohen Park
Mar 24, 20243 min read
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My Slushpile Odyssey IV: The Waiting Game
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...
Christine Cohen Park
Mar 14, 20241 min read
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Check Adrienne Thomas and Harlan Cockburn's Creageivity podcast interview with Christine
Creageivity 14 - with Christine Cohen Park ......... https://www.buzzsprout.com/2160581/episodes/14606637
Christine Cohen Park
Mar 2, 20241 min read
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More Room at the Top
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...
Christine Cohen Park
Feb 20, 20244 min read
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Slushpile Odyssey 3 - Three Rules
‘There are three rules for writing a novel, unfortunately no one knows what they are,’ Somerset Maugham is credited with saying. Maugham...
Christine Cohen Park
Feb 19, 20244 min read
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Slushpile Odyssey – Awaiting Answers
I have submissions out now, with a bit of an introduction, at least a name and a letter on my behalf, so not exactly freefall – and I am...
Christine Cohen Park
Feb 11, 20244 min read
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Will 'Distilled Wisdom' Work on my Slushpile Odyssey?
Last year I read a heartening article in the Guardian claiming that women into their seventies and even eighties are hot property when it...
Christine Cohen Park
Jan 25, 20244 min read
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Author Q & A
Christine talks about her writing style
Christine Cohen Park
Jan 19, 20241 min read
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FridayReads - Christine's book recommendations
Please check out my videos.... Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MW8OjTFSKU&t=95s Papyrus by Irene...
Christine Cohen Park
Dec 18, 20231 min read
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Having the last word
I wrote a piece for Writing Magazine online about my dear late friend, the writer Anita Mason........................
Christine Cohen Park
Dec 13, 20231 min read
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