Rebecca Abrams is a British author, teacher and journalist.

Her books include Touching Distance, The Jewish Journey, When Parents Die and Three Shoes One Sock & No Hairbrush. She is a long-standing tutor on the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and a regular literary critic for the Financial Times.

 
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2024 Creative Writing Courses - Closing Soon!

La Bastide Negrin, Provence, France

5th-11th May 2024

A week long course for writers of all levels at the lovely Bastide Negrin in the heart of the exquisite landscape of the south of France. The Provence Creative Writing Week offers you the time, and the tools, to take your writing to the next stage. Over the course of five days, literary professionals will guide you through each stage of the process in a supportive environment, with every meal freshly prepared for you, in an idyllic rural Provencal setting. So all you have to think about is your writing.

Books

Rebecca is the author of seven works of fiction and non-fiction and a verse play, The Pied Piper of Covid.  Her debut novel, Touching Distance was shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize for Literature and won the MJA Open Book Award for Medical Fiction. Her most recent work of non-fiction, The Jewish Journey: 4000 years in 22 objects from the Ashmolean Museum, has been described as ‘a celebration of Jewish life in all its worldly immensity - a tribute to the cosmopolitan ideals of Stefan Zweig.’ She is also the co-editor of Jewish Treasures From Oxford Libraries, currently long-listed for the 2021 Wingate Literary Prize.

Teaching

Rebecca teaches creative and academic writing at Oxford University, where she is a core tutor on the Masters in Creative Writing and teaches literature and creative writing at Keble College and Wadham College. In 2010 she created the Novel Thinking Programme for business leaders and from 2017-20 she was the RLF Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. She also provides private one-to-one mentoring and runs residential writing courses in England, Italy and Greece.

Journalism

Rebecca is a regular literary critic for the Financial Times and has written for many years for the UK's leading newspapers, including the Guardian, New Statesman, Daily Mail, Vogue and the Daily Telegraph, as a columnist, feature writer, book critic and commissioning editor. She is the recipient of an Amnesty International Award for Journalism.

The Pied Piper of Covid

The Pied Piper of Covid is a verse play written by Rebecca Abrams. A biting satire of the UK’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, it is inspired by Robert Browning's 1842 poem, The Pied Piper of Hamelin. This version pinions the parallels with today. A deadly plague, a mob of inept and dishonest political leaders, and a shadowy figure at the heart of government. But what is the plague in our case? And who exactly are the rats?

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