For Greenbelt this year, Simon will be taking lessons from the Inklings – the group of Oxford writers in the 1930s and 40s which included CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and Charles Williams – on how to work critically and creatively together as an artistic community, and hopefully dispelling the idea that authors need to be solitary in order to make great art.

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