Q & A Liza DeBlock – October 13

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Agent Q & A  Monday October 13, 6 – 7.30 pm GMT Get the inside track on submitting to agents. Join us for an exclusive live Q&A with Liza DeBlock of Greenstone Literary Agency, our 2025 Pitch Prize agent judge. Liza will reveal exactly what catches an agent’s...

Memoir, Life Writing, Creative Non-fiction – Oct 23

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Memoir, Life Writing, Creative Non-fiction  Thursday October 23, 6:00 – 8:00 pm GMT Writing about real lives and experiences – your own, or someone else’s – is rewarding but also daunting. What if you have too much information, or your story involves other people?...

Revising & Editing – November 25

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Revising & Editing  Tuesday November 25, 6:00 – 8:00 pm GMT All writers know that the most important stage of writing is actually the re-write – and this tutorial gives you the opportunity to find out what that really means. Of course editing is about a whole lot...

Author Q&A: Julia Kelly, 2021 First Novel Award Winner

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Julia Kelly won the BPA 2021 First Novel Award, coming first out of more than 1,000 entries. She then signed with that year’s competition judge, literary agent Hellie Ogden. In 2024, Julia signed a six-figure publishing deal with the publishing house Harvill...

Pitch Prize Readers’ Choice Winner

Thursday, December 5, 2024

We are excited to announce that we have a clear winner for the Pitch Prize Readers’ Choice vote! Many congratulations to Emily Roe who won the vote with the opening of The Stym, a dystopian novel. BPA will award Emily a short report on her opening 10,000 words....