PAC Interview: Christine Lawrence

The Portsmouth Authors Collective was created to promote the work of the city’s current crop of authors, and this series of interviews offers a glimpse into the work their doing and their writing lives. This time around I'm speaking the the thriller writer Christine Lawrence. Author Bio: Christine Lawrence is an ex-psychiatric nurse turned author and spoken word performer whose fiction draws on real life experiences and local settings. She was one of the BookFest 2012 ‘ Writers to Watch ’ . Since then, her shorter fiction has been featured in a variety of local anthologies and projects including Portsmouth Fairy Tales for Grown Ups , the Writing Edward King project, the transmedia event Cursed City Dark Tide , and Pompey Writes: the Best of Star & Crescent . In 2021, she facilitated a series of writing workshops as part of the Libraries Connected/BBC project, ‘Novels that shaped the world’ . A creative writing tutor, she is passi...