The Hampstead Authors' Society
Founded in 1997 by Zsuzsanna Ardó
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What is the Hampstead Authors' Society (HAS)?


The Society was set up in 1997 to provide a professional and social network and forum for creatives in the Hampstead area. Since then HAS has been joined by members from other parts of London, from Oxford, Cambridge and even from France.

What are some of the events HAS has hosted?

  •  readings of both published and unpublished work
  •  book displays of members at local bookshops
  •  talks by a range of speakers from authors of fiction and non-fiction to booksellers, agents, publishers and television producers
  •  visits to places of interest like the new British Library
  •  panel discussions on topical issues about books and writing (some of these discussions are open to the  public)
  •  walks on Hampstead Heath followed by tea and a reading
  •  talks by members at local schools/workshops on researching the internet

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Contributors to HASEvents and Projects Include:

Fay Weldon, Author
Marina Benjamin, Author
Tim Waterstone, Founder of
Waterstone's Bookstores
Deborah Moggach, Author
Jennifer Potter, Author
Corrado Canonici, Musician
Jeremy Beale, MD, Quartet Books
Peter Bush, Translator, BCLT
Georgia de Chamberet, Agent
David Marshall, Publisher
Ros Schwartz, Translator
Emma Klein, Author
Stephen Lynas, the Archbishop’s Officer for the Millennium
Lewis Wolpert, Scientist
Robert McCrum, Author
Phil Williamson, Author
Leon Arden, Author
Helen Simpson, Author
Robert Irwin, Author
Jasmine Birtles, Author
Ian Pearson, Director of the Publishers' Association
Jacob Sager Weinstein, Filmmaker
David Reynolds, Author/Editor
Chris Petit, Author/Filmmaker
David de Keyser, Actor/Director
Alexander McConnell, Actor,
Julia Munrow, Playwright/Actor
Fernando Fuentes, Artist
Joseph Connolly, Author
Mariane Rosel-Miles, Translator
Robert Solomon, Author
Maggie Wakelin-Saint, Lawyer
Phil Forder, Artist/Publisher
Miriam Halahmy, Author
Andrew Neil, Actor/Director
Luiza Beddoes, Musician
Ray Hammond, Author
Will Hopper, Author
Jim Robinsion, Rev.
Matthew Patrick, Psychotherapist/Director of the Tavistock Clinic
Kate Elgin, Philosopher
Alastair Gavin, Musician
Carol Grimes, singer
Henry Singer, Filmmaker
Hilary Clark, Filmmaker
Trude Levi, Author
Szabi Tóth, Musician, Broadcaster
Daniel Cainer, Composer, Producer
Alison Oldham, Art Critic, Editor
Ellie Kavner, Psychotherapist

Ruth Waterman, Musician
Lavinia Byrne, Author
Nomi Rowe, Artist
Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer, Author
Rebecca Baulch, Musician
David Wilson, Author
Peter Goldie, Philosopher
James Thomson, Musician
David Ambrose, Author
Lisa Miller, Psychotherapist/Editor
Liz Jensen, Author
Frances Hill,Author
Anna Plodeck, Art Historian
Lev Raphael, Author
Tahir Shah, Author
Geraldine Cooke, Editor
David Godwin, Agent
Pat Farrington, Editor
Zsuzsanna Ardó, Author/Filmmaker
Ines Schlenker, Curator
Nouritza Matossian, Author
Emma Creighton-Miller, Broadcaster
Barbara Day, Author
Irene Lawford, Author
Gareth Steadman Jones, Social Scientist
Ignes Sodre, Analyst
Daniel Pick, Author
Simon Trewin, Agent
Esther Freud, Author
Hiroko Sue, Musician
Lars Laaman, Author
Barbara Goward, Author
Susie Boyt, Author
Daniel Andor, Scientist/Musician
Maria Rhode, Psychotherapist
Brenda Squires, Author
Anna Barry, Actor/Director
Nicholas Spice, Author/Editor
Erica Davis, Curator
Muriel Maufroy, Author/Broadcaster
Jay Silver, Scientist
Arthur I Miller, Author, Philosophy of Science
Mark Tully, Broadcaster
Ann Wroe, Author
Anja Steinbauer, Philosopher
Louise Doughty, Writer
Genie Lee, artist
Nick Cohen, Journalist, Author
Alessandra Cavalli, Psychoanalyst
Lawrence Ball, Mathematician/Composer
Burgh House Museum
The Freud Museum
The Anna Freud Centre
The Motesiczky House Museum
The Tavistock Clinic
Swiss Cottage Library
The British Library
The Wiener Library
Society of Authors
The London Review of Books
The LRB Bookshop
Oxford University Press
Focal Press
Faber & Faber
Screen on the Hill
Austrian Cultural Forum
Screen On The Hill Cinema
The Lotus Centre		 Nehru Centre
English PEN
The Script Factory
Routledge Publishers
London Jewish Cultural Centre
The Everyman Cinema Club
Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel
Camden Council
Waterstone's Hampstead
Waterstone's Camden
Books Etc O2 Bookshop
South Hampstead High School
Yale University Press
Marion Boyars Publishers
The Garrick Club
Publishers Association
artsdepot

 

Would you like to join?

Membership is £10 a year for members of the Society of Authors UK; otherwise, it is £14 to become a Friend of HAS. The annual subscription includes reduced rates to events, HASNotes, the Society's Newsletter, and HASNotes priority booking information for free HAS events.

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