Laura Bridgeman

Laura Bridgeman has written for the theatre and BBC Radio 4. She runs her own press: hotpencil, with Serge Nicholson. Publications include: There Is No Word For It, The (Trans) Mangina Monologues, exp

On Mother's Day: how to be an unconventional mum

I never wanted a child. But now I am a double mother: to my own mother as she copes with Alzheimer's, and to a son I didn't give birth to.

By Laura Bridgeman

/ 4 Mar 2016

Prisoner X and the British Guantanamo Bay

Working as a writer in residence at prisons, I have been advised not to "fight" if an inmate takes me hostage and starts to rape me. At first I loathed wife-murdering "Prisoner X". But if he can teach other prisoners to read and write, some good may come of the bad.

By Laura Bridgeman

/ 15 Jan 2014