Weldon in Class and on Screen

NZ raised novelist Fay Weldon has signed on to teach creative writing at Brunel University, as part of the UK institution’s new MA course. The prolific writer of bestsellers including Puff Ball, Praxis and Auto da Fay aims to bring her own brand of lawlessness to the course. “There’s a huge gap between how people say writing is done and how writers actually do it,” she says. “So my main job will be to inject a bit of anarchy into the system.” Puff Ball (1983) is currently being made into a film, directed by Nick Roeg and starring veteran actor Donald Sutherland.