Writing Fiction Essentials: Character, Description and Dialogue

Ms Rebecca Abrams

Rebecca Abrams is an award-winning writer, teacher and journalist. Her novel, Touching Distance (Picador, 2008) was highly praised by Hilary Mantel, won the MJA Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for a McKitterick Prize for Literature. She is also the author of several non-fiction titles, including The Jewish Journey: 4000 years in 22 objects (Ashmolean Museum), Woman in a Man’s World (Methuen) and When Parents Die (Taylor & Francis), and also writes for the stage. Her play, All of Us, premiered in New Zealand in May 2023.  Rebecca is a long-standing tutor on the MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and a writing mentor for the Oxford Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford.  She was the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Brasenose College from 2017 –2020, Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone’s Library from 2014–2015, and First Story Writer-in-Residence at Larkmead School, Abingdon from 2011–2012. She is a regular literary critic for the Financial Times, a former columnist for the Daily Telegraph, and the recipient of an Amnesty International Press Award.