. . . the essay sustains a tension between experience and the attempt . . . to derive ideas or abstractions from experience . . .

. . . the essay sustains a tension between experience and the attempt . . . to derive ideas or abstractions from experience . . .

Play and creative thinking techniques for writers are transformative because they are highly generative, unblock, produce original material and encourage us to ask, “What if…?”.

Unblock Your Writing Using Creative Thinking Thursday, 15th October, 2026 | 6-8pm UK Time / BST Play and creative thinking techniques for writers are transformative because they are highly generative,...

"The peculiar form of an essay implies a peculiar substance; you can say in this shape what you cannot with equal fitness say in any other.”

"The peculiar form of an essay implies a peculiar substance; you can say in this shape what you cannot with equal fitness say in any other.”

Our Welldoing Book of the Month for July 2025 is the paperback of Home is Where We Start: Growing up in the Fallout of the Utopian Dream by Susanna Crossman

Our Welldoing Book of the Month for July 2025 is the paperback of Home is Where We Start: Growing up in the Fallout of the Utopian Dream by Susanna Crossman

Sick of her friends getting nowhere, she co-founded The Women in the Arts Foundation and they protested across New York. Ahead of a UK show, Roser talks about escaping wartime Shanghai – and still pai...

Sick of her friends getting nowhere, she co-founded The Women in the Arts Foundation and they protested across New York. Ahead of a UK show, Roser talks about escaping wartime Shanghai – and still pai...

Established in November 2021, Mother Vine is Sloane Square’s neighbourhood wine shop & bar on Pavilion Road, and a personal reflection of our journey through the world of wine.