Q&A: Starting Your Writing Career Later in Life w/ Playwright Jan Woolf

​How can we make writing our second or third career? 

​Jan Woolf trained as a painter and taught art and special needs in London schools for many years. She started writing in her 50s and today she has established herself as a playwright and author.  

Join us for our Q&A with Jan where we’ll be talking to her about how she got started, her writing practice today and her success as a playwright.

​Held immediately following our Writers’ Hour ET session, in the same room.

​**This interview will be recorded and sent to anyone who registers afterwards.**

​About Jan Woolf

​Jan has read much of her own work, often with actors, most recently at the Freud Museum and the ICA, and held the first Harold Pinter Writers’ residency at the Hackney Empire, where her play Porn Crackers was directed by Ruth Boswell. She is a critic, reviewer and editor, and has published various pieces of journalism, drawn from a life of political activism and teaching. Jan edited many books for the Muswell Press, and ran ‘Off the Shelf’ at Blacks club Soho from 2011 to 2014 – a writer’s development project for the Writers Guild of Great Britain, of which she is an active member. She is the author of a book of short stories  ‘Fugues on a Funny Bone’, a novella ‘Untitled,’ many reviews and articles, and four performed plays.

​About London Writers' Salon 

​London Writers' Salon is a global community and membership for writers. We host Writers' Hour (a daily writing sprint), interviews and masterclasses.