Psychic Distance – RECORDING

Psychic Distance – RECORDING

Psychic Distance Recording 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 for her students. Sometimes you may...
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...
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 – RECORDING

Revising & Editing – RECORDING

Revising & Editing 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 more than tidying up the sentences – but what...