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Thrown Away Child is a memoir covering Louise Allen’s abusive childhood in a foster home, how she survived - using her love of art as a sanctuary - and how she hopes to right old wrongs now by fostering children herself and campaigning for the improvement of foster care services. It is a compelling and inspirational story. This book gives a voice to the many children who grew up unhappily in care.

Burn Bright host their yearly round-up for 2020, their inaugural year, ahead of an anthology of conversations with inspiring creative womxn to follow in 2021. Burn Bright is a not-for-profit organisation that seeks to drive positive change for writers who identify as women in theatre. We aim to level the playing field wherever possible - creating a network and opportunities to build writers up, lobbying for change, and calling out inequality and bad practice where we see it. Burn Bright was born out of a situation in which co-founders Sarah Henley and Tori Allen-Martin's work was erased, in a ...