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Writers and wine: uncorking two pleasures at once

12th October 2017

The Cite du Vin wine museum in Bordeaux

You can’t become a wine connoisseur just by scattering words like oenophile around. You have to study the grapes, the terroir, the methods. Here’s what happened when I took the first step towards becoming a wine buff at a ‘Writers and Wine’ workshop at the new wine museum in Bordeaux. If you ever want to […]

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The art of the webinar

6th February 2017

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So you want to run a webinar? How do you teach people you can’t see? I’ve been running writing workshops for years and have always relied on the power of being able to observe people, address them directly and engage with them. But it’s a whole new ballgame when you’re running a webinar. A webinar […]

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