Psychic Distance – September 25

Psychic Distance – September 25

Psychic Distance  Thursday September 25, 6:00 – 8:00 pm BST Psychic Distance: the fiction writer’s secret sauce. Over the years Emma has found that learning to work with psychic distance – often called narrative distance or emotional distance – is the game-changer...
Q & A Liza DeBlock – October 13

Q & A Liza DeBlock – October 13

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...
Pitch Perfect – RECORDING

Pitch Perfect – RECORDING

Pitch Perfect - Recording It’s not only agents and editors who judge a book by the first page: in an industry driven by ‘Look Inside the Book’, the opening of a novel or memoir is one of the keys which draws a reader in irresistibly – or lets them wander off. Before...
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?...
Revising & Editing – November 25

Revising & Editing – November 25

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...