Forthwrite Festival: a celebration of women writers over 50 Brighton: Saturday, 15 March 2025 Crawley: Sunday, 30 March 2025 March 2025 saw the first ever Forthwrite Festival! A celebration of women writers over 50. With rousing talks from best-selling authors Annie Garthwaite and Kit De Waal, the festival took place over two days, in Brighton on Saturday 15 March […]
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The Fundamentals of Submitting Your Work by Oscar Janson-Smith Like most major life accomplishments, getting a book deal is not an easy thing to do. However, there are a few things you can do to give your book the best possible chance of being picked up by an agent and, in turn, dramatically increase your
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Our annual gathering of writers and publishing professionals
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A radical new festival for Brighton featuring some of the best LGBTQ+ literature
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A residency programme to challenge under-representation of Black and Asian British writers in the literary world
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Supporting Alinah Azadeh, Writer-in-Residence at Seven Sisters Country Park
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The Working Class Writers Collective brings together writers from working-class backgrounds based across the south-east region. The collective was established as a call to arms, to create events and activities to bring working class writing out of the margins and on to the centre of the page NWS helped establish the collective and continues its
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Writing Around the Kids are free creative writing workshops for mothers of young children. The sessions are for writers of all abilities. Whether you’ve never written creatively before or have an idea of something you’d like to develop, come along and give it a go. It’s a great opportunity for mothers to forge some space
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By Clare Christian You’ve written your book. You’ve redrafted it once, twice, probably more. You’ve polished it; maybe you’ve worked with an editor to get it in the best shape it can possibly be in. Now you’re ready to put it out there into the big wide world. But how? If you’re at this stage
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By Anna Burtt At some point over the years, ‘self-promotion’ has been given a bad name. We associate it with narcissism and arrogance. You do not need to be narcissistic or arrogant to be a good self promoter, and it is an essential part of being a writer. You are a creative person. You have
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