Colin Spencer - Other Activities

Other Activities

Colin Spencer has been Co-Chairman (1982), Chairman (1988–90) and Vice-President (1990–99) of The Writers Guild of Great Britain and President of the Guild of Food Writers (1994–99). He continues as a judge for the J R Ackerley Prize for Autobiography.

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