Bernardine Evaristo offers her Kent cottage to writers for free retreats

Low-income writers and those without space to work will be prioritised under the RSL’s new Scriptorium awards, with 10 people a year allowed to stay for up to a monthOn the wall of a Ramsgate house owned by Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo hangs a large-scale cover of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. It might just as well read “A Cottage of One’s Own”, as that is precisely what the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) president is offering: writers will be able to stay in the property for free.“I bought this cottage as my pension, and I decided that I could put it to use as a writer’s retreat,” Evaristo says. The choice was in part motivated by her own experience – “for many years I didn’t have my own home, I led a very peripatetic lifestyle, and I didn’t earn much money from my writing.” Continue reading…



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Author : Ella Creamer

Publish date : 2024-10-25 08:00:15

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