Portrait: Carrie Jade Williams, winner of the 2020 Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize © Aoife Herrity Carrie Jade Williams is a fiction writer and essayist. We had the pleasure of (virtually) meeting Carrie at this year’s BPA Writing Weekend, and she told us that she started to write just six months ago after being diagnosed…
Hear from our First Novel Award 2021 judge as to what she is looking for and how getting listed in a competition gets you noticed. If you are considering submitting to our First Novel Award or indeed any competitions for debut novel writers this Q & A session will be invaluable. And even if you…
Tips for writing a best seller – what’s hot and what’s not Q & A with agent Marina de Pass and editor Rebecca HilsdonDate:February 23, 2021Time:6.00 – 7.30 pm GMTLocation:Zoom PlatformCost:£30BOOK NOW What novels are selling and how to get a publishing deal. Your chance to find out from a literary agent and a commissioning…
First Line, first page, first chapter 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. But none…
Revising & EditingThursday April 29, 2021 Tutorial 4 from Craft Tutorials for Fiction Writers Novelist David Mitchell likens a novel to an end-of-the-pier horse-race game. The rickety horses are Character, Structure, Plot, Language and Ideas: as you write they move forward but sometimes one stalls, and sometimes another surges ahead. In this series of craft…
Voice & ProseThursday March 25, 2021 Tutorial 3 from Craft Tutorials for Fiction Writers Novelist David Mitchell likens a novel to an end-of-the-pier horse-race game. The rickety horses are Character, Structure, Plot, Language and Ideas: as you write they move forward but sometimes one stalls, and sometimes another surges ahead. In this series of craft…
Plot & StructureThursday February 25, 2021 Tutorial 2 from Craft Tutorials for Fiction Writers Novelist David Mitchell likens a novel to an end-of-the-pier horse-race game. The rickety horses are Character, Structure, Plot, Language and Ideas: as you write they move forward but sometimes one stalls, and sometimes another surges ahead. In this series of craft…
Character & IdeasThursday January 28, 2021 Tutorial 1 from Craft Tutorials for Fiction Writers Novelist David Mitchell likens a novel to an end-of-the-pier horse-race game. The rickety horses are Character, Structure, Plot, Language and Ideas: as you write they move forward but sometimes one stalls, and sometimes another surges ahead. In this series of craft…
A Literary Marriage – Agent and Author Q & AAgent Jane Finigan and best selling author Claire FullerDate: Thursday November 12Time: 6.00 – 7.30 pmLocation: ZoomCost: £30BOOK NOW Find your dream agent and establish your writing career Jane Finigan from leading literary agency Lutyens & Rubinstein and best selling author Claire Fuller (Bitter Orange, Swimming…
Once you have drafted your novel and and received feedback on it, there are bound to be issues that you wish you’d thought about more before you began. Of course, so much of a story develops in the process of writing it, but there are exercises worth doing before you start to help clarify the…