Autumn Away Weekend 2023

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Our twice yearly Away Days morphed this month into an Autumn Away Weekend. We welcomed 25 writers to a lovely country house in Kintbury, West Berkshire over the weekend of October 7/8. With temperatures in the mid 70s it didn’t feel very Autumnal. In fact, it was a...

2023 BPA First Novel Award Winners

Monday, October 2, 2023

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7/8 October 2023 Weekend Workshops

Monday, April 24, 2023

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Ask an Agent: Samantha Brace from Peters Fraser + Dunlop

Monday, January 16, 2023

Sam Brace is an Agent building a list of crime and reading group fiction. Alongside working on her own list, Sam looks after podcasts for Peters Fraser + Dunlop. At PFD’s digital-first imprint Agora Books, Sam launched the Lost the Plot Writers Competition as...

Author Q&A: Karen Pierce, runner-up of the BPA First Novel Award 2022

Monday, December 12, 2022

Karen Pierce won second place in the BPA First Novel Award 2022 after impressing the judges with her historical coming-of-age novel, Petal. She has since signed with literary agent Katie Fulford. We decided to ask her some questions about the novel and her journey to...