World-acclaimed authors invited to hold workshops

GULF NEWS: Residents and visitors to the UAE will be able to peek into the minds of their favourite authors as a line of world-famous writers head to the city to lead month-long workshops. As a start to the Writer-in-Residence programme, launched by the Dubai International Writers’ Centre (DIWC) yesterday, travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith will join the sessions from 14 January to 1 February. The DIWC, part of the Emirates Literature Foundation and an associate organisation of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, was officially launched in November 2014, and has promised to hold such events throughout the year.