Playwright, short story writer and writing teacher Jan Woolf took a break from her writer's retreat at Circle of Misse last August to join me under the arbour in the garden to discuss her forthcoming short story collection Fugues on A Funny Bone from Muswell Press and what inspires her to write.

Jan Woolf is the Harold Pinter writer-in-residence at the Hackney Empire, where her play Porn Crackers (about her past job as a film censor) was produced last year. Her fiction has appeared in literary magazines including Libbon, and her short story “Moving On” was short-listed for the Asham Award. She leads the ‘Writing the Visual’ workshops at the Hackney Empire, for writers whose fiction engages with the visual arts.

Jan returns to Circle of Misse in April to kick off the 2010 season of writing, cooking and painting holidays with a five-day course designed to jumpstart the creative process and get people writing.

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