In 2007, the New Writing Partnership (now known as Writers' Centre Norwich) chose ten recipients of its Escalator award, the East of England’s talent programme for writers. Our challenge: to strike out in new directions and develop our work.

So, we threw caution aside, marshalled new words, and ambushed the public in a group reading at Foyles bookshop, London.

From that first event it was clear there was enough spark between us to make reading together a genuine adventure:

Absolute Fiction was born...

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Top (from left): Fraser Grace, Susan Sellers, Clare Jarrett, Katharine Morton, Edward Parnell
Bottom (from left): Elizabeth Ferretti, Kathryn Skoyles, Caroline Gilfillan, Jacqueline Jacques