Craft Meets Commerce: What Publishers Want Writers to Know – RECORDING

Craft Meets Commerce: What Publishers Want Writers to Know – RECORDING

Craft Meets Commerce: What Publishers Want Writers to Know Samantha Eades is an award-winning publisher, editor, and publicist with 20 years of experience shaping commercial fiction bestsellers. She has held senior roles at three of the Big Five UK publishing houses...
Pitch Prize Winners 2025

Pitch Prize Winners 2025

The 2025 Pitch Prize Winners This year’s Pitch Prize brought together an extraordinary range of voices and stories, with recurring themes ranging from witches and ghosts to the Irish Troubles and Scottish settings. From this rich and varied field, our judge, literary...
Pitch Prize Longlist 2025

Pitch Prize Longlist 2025

We are excited to reveal the 2025 Pitch Prize longlist!   Our judge, literary agent Liza DeBlock from the Greenstone Literary Agency, found it incredibly difficult to narrow the entries down to just twenty. She told us she was blown away by the quality of the...
Q & A Liza DeBlock – RECORDING

Q & A Liza DeBlock – RECORDING

Agent Q & A - Recording Get the inside track on submitting to agents. Recording of an exclusive live Q&A with Liza DeBlock of Greenstone Literary Agency, our 2025 Pitch Prize agent judge. Liza reveals exactly what catches an agent’s eye—and what sends a submission...
Memoir, Life Writing, Creative Non-fiction – Oct 23

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

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?...