Rae Leaver Rahman

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  • DYCP: A Visit to Gladstone’s Library

    DYCP: A Visit to Gladstone’s Library

    I’d wanted to visit Gladstone’s library for years. Thanks to support from ACE, I finally got there. Read more

  • DYCP: Writing and community

    This week on National Writing Day, the Writing Bedfordshire group came for the first time at the fantastic Brown Books bookshop #DYCP Read more

  • DYCP: Developing Creativity

    At the end of 2022, having had a successful year, I was set for an exciting 2023. Yet I still found that making time and space for my writing was hard. I had a wedding, new family commitments, a house move, a new job. I had all of the old commitments to ways of working… Read more

  • Best times, worst times

    Over the past five years, I have been filling out a diary which asks you to write one line a day. When I received it for Christmas 2017, I didn’t seriously think that I would be able to keep up writing in it every day (and if I’m honest, it wasn’t always every day and Read more

  • Values and new visions

    At the start of 2021, I wondered if people with chronic illnesses would be looked to for their unique perception on what the world might be like, if people would listen to the experiences of those who have had to drastically alter their existence to suit new circumstances. Going into another lockdown, it felt like Read more

  • Roundabout 2018

    Roundabout 2018

    So I never got around to publishing my thoughts on what I saw on my last day of Edinburgh, but as it was very focused on the shows I saw as part of Paines Plough’s excellent 2018 tour I wanted to add it to the retrospective of working with such a great company. Paines Plough Read more