Articles by Waterside Press, our authors and associates.
by Michael Crowley author of The Man They Couldn’t Hang: A Tale of Murder, Mystery and Celebrity. August 2010.
A residency as a writer in a prison is almost always arranged through the Writers in Prison Network. This is a small Arts Council funded body that established its first residency around twenty years ago.… Read more “On Being a Writer in Residence in a Prison”
Time for Moral Courage and Political Bravery
by David J Cornwell (author of The Penal Crisis and the Clapham Omnibus).
July 2010.
by Hilary Beauchamp author of Holloway Prison: An Inside Story
Inmates would bring into the classroom photos of partners and children for me to draw, or attempt to employ me as their own individual portrait painter. Succumbing to this sort of pressure would have reinforced the erroneous criticism that the arts were a soft option.… Read more “A Glimpse Behind the Wall at Holloway”
by Bryan Gibson (author of The Pocket A-Z of Criminal Justice)
by John Hostettler, co-author of Sir William Garrow.
Sir William Garrow was born in Middlesex in 1760 and was called to the Bar in 1783. He was the dominant figure at the Old Bailey from 1783 to 1793, later becoming an MP, Solicitor-General, Attorney-General and finally a Judge.… Read more “A Short Pen Picture of William Garrow”
