Her workshop - Writing for Life - will undoubtedly be one of the best attended at Limmud Liverpool on March 18.

For her most well-known work, Kindertransport, is a fixture on the national schools curriculum at GCSE level.

Born in Liverpool in 1960, Diane attended King David Junior and High schools, having grown up in Childwall, before heading to Cambridge University to study history. She followed this with a PGCE in drama at Goldsmiths College, London.

Diane had a five-year stint in teaching before becoming the education officer at the Unicorn Theatre. But writing has always been her passion.

"I've always done it, I enjoy telling stories," the 51-year-old explained. "I used to enjoy making up stories in the playground.

"At Limmud I will offer people the opportunity to find their own voices as authors and writers and to do something they may not have expected they could do. I show people simple techniques to start to tap into their creativity."

Diane said she would take people "on their own creative journey".

She has been a full-time writer for 20 years. Alongside Kindertransport, she has written Frankie's Monster and Three Sisters of Hope Street, which was co-written with former Eastenders actress Tracy-Ann Oberman.

The classic Kindertransport has been performed across the world and its writer has led workshops on it in many countries.

"Most find it very moving and connect with the survival story on a personal level," Diane explained. "I will be using a stream of consciousness and playful word techniques that take the thinking out of writing.

"Thinking is no use. Thinking about it doesn't help. It's a bit like thinking about swimming. Most people have been taught in a way which is anti-writing."

Diane added that her workshops often allow people to connect with a skill for writing they never knew existed.

And at Limmud, she is hoping to do just that.

"On the whole people come out of my sessions and say 'gosh I didn't know I could do that'," the mother-of-two explained.

"They have fun and enjoy it. They connect with the pleasure of writing and discuss things about themselves.

"Usually I say that I hope they discover something and if they don't its because they don't want to."

The work doesn't stop with Limmud however. She is currently working on two musical and writing a radio serial for BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour about a pilot who flew solo from England to Singapore in 1948.

This year's Limmud will see a creche facility provided.

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