Here are the latest Writers & Artists newsletters for my followers to peruse:
What better way to welcome 2018 than
discounts galore!?
The codes below are exclusive
to Writers & Artists newsletter subscribers, and only
remain valid
until midnight on Wednesday 31st January… so if you’re
looking to attend one of our January or February events then do move
quickly because places are already in short supply!
With best wishes for the year ahead,
The W&A Team
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Benefit from 10% discount on either of our
March writing courses by entering EVENTS18 on the checkout
page.
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Your Novel
Critically acclaimed author William Ryan
leads a 10-week course on how you can transform your novel idea or
work-in-progress into a fully-fledged manuscript. Each session offers
practical advice on essential elements of the writing process and the
opportunity to workshop sections of your novel, and regular guest
speaker slots with authors, literary agents and commissioning editors
feature throughout.
View course outline
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Your Children's Book
Join award-winning writer for young
people and Sunday Times best-selling writer of adult fiction Caroline Green for
five stimulating weeks of practical workshops and expert advice, with
sessions combining practical exercises, discussion and feedback.
Students will explore essential aspects of writing for a wide range of
ages, including: how to take an initial idea and develop it into a
story that others will want to read; how to craft memorable characters;
and how to write vivid settings.
View course outline
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Our popular How to Hook an Agent half-day
events give you the opportunity to learn all you need to know about
submitting your manuscript from those that know best: the literary agents
themselves!
Following
morning seminar sessions with a group of no more than 14 other writers,
you'll enjoy a networking lunch followed by the opportunity to speak to
one of the agents in attendance about your manuscript in a one-to-one
session.
Select a date and claim
your exclusive
10% saving by entering EVENTS18 on the checkout
page.
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Each of the following conferences are
confirmed for 2018 and you can claim an exclusive 10% saving on your
booking by entering EVENTS18
on the checkout page.
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How To Write For
Children & Young Adults
Our popular full-day conference is
back for 2018! Based inside the offices of Bloomsbury Publishing, this
full-day conference includes a two-hour author workshop, networking
drinks and panel discussion with leading literary agents.
Booking and full line-up
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How To Get Published
- York
We return to York Literature Festival
to offer a W&A first – a full-day conference dedicated to the world
of speculative fiction. Working with Orbit Books, we’ll be bringing
you informative sessions on writing for the genre, networking drinks,
and an interactive panel discussion with literary agents.
Booking and full line-up
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How To Get Published
- Bournemouth
And later in the year we’ll also be
visiting Bournemouth for a day including a two-hour writing
workshop, lunch, a panel of publishing industry professionals, and
literary agents in discussion on the process of submitting your
manuscript.
Booking and full line-up
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Yearbooks and Companion
Guides
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP
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One final newsletter from us before we bid
the office adieu and head back to the motherland for mulled wine, knitted
socks, boxes of chocolates… and that stack of books we’ve been meaning to
read but just not had the time!
2017 has been as busy as ever: 15
events (view
confirmed dates for 2018) and festival appearances
across the country; over 100
new advice articles; 1000s
of Yearbooks
sold; significant milestones reached on both Twitter
and Facebook;
and over 3
million page-views on writersandartists.co.uk!
Thanks to each and every one of you for your help in making this happen,
and for your general support of Writers & Artists. If it’s of
interest to writers then it’s of interest to us, and your emails, feedback
forms, phone calls and social media messages all really do matter because
they keep us close to what you – the writer – wants.
See you in 2018!
The W&A Team
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We've added new Beat the Rejection
Clinic dates to the site for the New Year, with a host
of literary agents available to provide an objective appraisal of
your submission package and offer expert advice on things to consider
in order to take those next steps to publication in 2018!
Book now
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Learn how
to become a better self-editor of your work.
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Freelance editors Cressida Downing
and Sara
Starbuck will be joined by Francine Toon
(Sceptre Books and Hodder Fiction) and Jennifer Kerslake (Weidenfeld
& Nicolson, Orion Publishing) to offer practical seminar sessions.
A networking
lunch is provided on the day, and each writer will also
receive direct
feedback on a pre-submitted extract.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP
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Take a look at some of the brilliant events
we have coming up in the first half of 2018.
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Learn how
to become a better self-editor of your work.
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Become a more objective reader of your
work by attending a day of advice and practical exercises with
publishing industry professionals. Along with an invaluable one-to-one
session with an editor of your choice, find out how to take your
editing to the next level!
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Learn from
the best with a day of writing workshops and panel discussions with
children’s publishing experts.
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The day includes: a two-hour writing
workshop with an author of your choice; a key note talk, plenty of
opportunity to network with speakers and fellow delegates; informative
and interactive panel discussions with literary agents looking for
debut authors to add to their lists.
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We're back
at York Literature Festival in 2018 to bring a day of writing talks dedicated
to speculative fiction.
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The day will consist of informative
sessions on writing for the genre from authors Claire North and
RJ Barkers;
keynote from Ken
MacLeod on subverting the normal in fiction; a
networking drinks reception with the speakers; and informative and
interactive panel discussion with leading literary agents.
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Teaming up
with Arts University Bournemouth
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We're really
excited to be partnering with Arts University Bournemouth in order to
bring a day of advice on how to get published to the South West.
The day includes a two hour workshop on the genre of your choice in the
morning: fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. After lunch, the afternoon
sessions will help you navigate the current market, warn you of what to
avoid in a submission to an agent and give insight into the minds of
leading publishing industry figures.
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CWA Debut
Dagger and Short Story Competition
Debut
Dagger Award
Write an opening of a crime novel up to 3,000
words, together with a synopsis for the full novel of up to 1,000
words. For full details on how to enter, click here.
Margery
Allingham Short Story Competition
Write a short story of up to 3,500 words with a mystery- inspired
brief. For full details on how to enter, click here.
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Learn how to become a better self-editor of your writing at
How To Edit Your Book, on Saturday 27th January.
Reserve your place
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If you have a picture
book idea, you're writing a middle grade title or have started working on a
YA novel, we'd love to find out more about why you turn to Writers &
Artists.
As a site member and
newsletter subscriber, your feedback is crucial in helping us to develop
our site content, writing competitions and courses.
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Our annual How
To Write For Children & Young Adults conference will be back in
2018, with a day of writing workshops and panel discussions on Saturday
24th February. Meet experts of children’s publishing, and find out
how to improve your writing and how best to increase your chances of
getting published!
In the morning,
choose a practical workshop session with a successful children’s authors,
who will offer essential advice on aspects of the writing process. You
can learn how to put together a brilliant picture book with David
Litchfield, write middle grade with Kiran Millwood
Hargrave, or talk all things YA with Patrice Lawrence.
The afternoon
sees a keynote speech from Kate Pankhurst on the
responsibilities - and importance! - of writing for children followed by
an interactive panel discussion with leading children's literary agents
looking for debut authors to add to their lists.
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"I
hope that having the opportunity to meet agents and publishers
face-to-face, and ask them questions, will provide more helpful than
relying on a website or twelve."
In the run up to Saturday's How
To Get Published conference at Plymouth University, Literature Works
interviewed literary agent Juliet Pickering, who
discusses her involvement with the day and the importance of attending
writing conferences.
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New dates have
been added to our popular Beat The Rejection Clinic service
- a 30-minute meeting with a literary agent to discuss your work and take
advice on how to take it forward within the current marketplace.
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"If
you’re apprehensive of taking the plunge, or worse, are being arrogant
with yourself, or are plain scared... Don’t be. Just re-frame your
world."
SJ Sherwood, author of The Denounced series, discusses why he
opted to self-publish, and the things he learned along the way.
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"Bloggers can be a huge force for good around book
promotion, and have introduced me to books I love but would never have
read based just on the blurb."
Tia Armstrong from YA Shot speaks with Luna of Luna’s Little
Library & Annalise of Annalise Books to find out exactly what
book bloggers do...
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Social
Media
Follow us, like us, tweet and
re-pin – we hope to inspire, answer questions, provide competitions…
and we’ll link you to our latest articles and events,
too!
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Visit our online shop to browse a host
of titles available to help you on your way to publishing your book.
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 Subscribe to our Online Listings database in order to
browse the thousands of contacts within the Writers' & Artists'
Yearbook, plus hundreds more online-only entries. To purchase a
twelve-month subscription click here.
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© Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP
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Tia Armstrong from YA Shot speaks with Luna of Luna’s Little Library &
Annalise of Annalise Books to discuss what exactly it is that book bloggers
do...
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"If you find
yourself drastically outside the suggested length for your audience, then
it might be worth considering whether your book is structured in the best
way for connecting with your readers."
Literary agent Danielle Zigner
takes a look at typical novel lengths per genre, and what appeals to
publishers within the current marketplace.
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Learn how to become a
more objective reader and self-editor of your own writing by working with
professional editors at this half-day event in January 2018.
Freelance editors Cressida
Downing and Kylie Fitzpatrick will be joined by Francine Toon
(Sceptre Books and Hodder Fiction) and Jennifer Kerslake (Weidenfeld
& Nicolson, Orion Publishing) to offer practical seminar sessions.
A networking lunch
is provided on the day, and each writer will also receive direct
feedback on a pre-submitted extract of their book.
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"There’s no
need to write simplistically like an old-fashioned Janet and John
reader."
In his final piece of a series of
four articles for writersandartists.co.uk Tony Bradman looks at the
distinguishing features of children's writing and the differences brought
about by writing for different age groups.
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"The
Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope paid an elderly groom £5 a year to wake
him with a cup of coffee, so that he could be at his desk by 5.30 a.m. each
morning."
Helen Gordon, co-editor of Being A Writer, shares some of her
findings after researching the writing habits of some of the world’s most
famous authors.
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Social
Media
Follow us, like us, tweet and
re-pin – we hope to inspire, answer questions, provide competitions…
and we’ll link you to our latest articles and events,
too!
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Visit our online shop to browse a host of
titles available to help you on your way to publishing your book.
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Subscribe to our Online Listings database in order to
browse the thousands of contacts within the Writers' & Artists'
Yearbook, plus hundreds more online-only entries. To purchase a
twelve-month subscription click here.
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"Nobody sits
down to write a whole novel... Sitting down with a task that giant hanging
over you is a great way to invite procrastination and anxiety into your
life."
Emily Suvada shines a light on five skills that you probably
already have - and could be the key to more productive, focused writing.
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Plymouth, Saturday 2nd December
Our final event
of 2017 sees us return to Plymouth and team up with literature
development charity Literature
Works for a day
brimming with practical advice from authors and literary agents.
Guests on the
day – which includes a networking lunch – will benefit from editing tips
from Man Booker long-listed Wyl Menmuir; advice on how to hook
readers with your opening chapters courtesy of bestseller Natasha
Pulley; and a gripping session on the mastery of pace and plot with
the ever-successful C.L. Taylor.
Literary agents Kate
Johnson and Juliet Pickering will also be on-hand to provide
practical tips on the submission process on a day dedicated to helping
you take your writing to the next level.
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"Your voice
is not their voice, and that's a good thing."
Regular Writers & Artists
blogger Lia Louis returns to discuss how to overcome the ill-effects
of finding it necessary to compare your work to other published works.
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Learn how to become a
more objective reader and self-editor of your own writing by working with
professional editors at this half-day event in January 2018.
Freelance editors Cressida
Downing and Kylie Fitzpatrick will be joined by Francine Toon
(Sceptre Books and Hodder Fiction) and Jennifer Kerslake (Weidenfeld
& Nicolson, Orion Publishing) to offer practical seminar sessions.
A networking lunch
is provided on the day, and each writer will also receive direct
feedback on a pre-submitted extract of their book.
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Facts At Your Fingertips!
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"Passing
solace in a copy of Whitaker's Almanack" protagonist Loudon Dodd finds
"in fifty minutes more information than I have yet been able to
use."
(The Wrecker,
Robert Louis Stephenson and Lloyd Osbourne)
As a writer of fiction
or non-fiction, it’s essential to have quick, easy access to comprehensive
and reliable facts about the world around you… so we’re offering a massive
discount on two of the world’s most authoritative reference books.
Whitaker’s, first published in 1868, is the ultimate single-volume
reference source, packed with thousands of facts, figures and statistics
relating to the UK and the World. In addition to comprehensive coverage of
world affairs, politics, the royal family, peerage, law, and education, it
also contains articles on, among others, the media, literature, film and
theatre.
Who’s Who contains all the
information you need on 33,000 key movers and shakers in British society.
Did you know that over 40% of Who’s Who entrants are published authors? Be
it best-selling novelists (Robert Harris, Martin Amis), well-loved
children’s writers (Malorie Blackman, Jacqueline Wilson), or non-fiction
authors (Claire Tomalin, William Dalrymple).
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And finally... some of
the eagle-eyed among you will have noticed the shortlist for our special
competition with Retreat
West was posted on our
website at the end of last month, and it’s with great pleasure that we can
now reveal the winning entries. Click here to read each of the stories alongside feedback from author
and creative writing tutor Jane Elmor.
Missed out this time?
All the more reason to consider our annual short story competition with
Arvon, which is now open for entries.
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Social
Media
Follow us, like us, tweet and
re-pin – we hope to inspire, answer questions, provide competitions…
and we’ll link you to our latest articles and events,
too!
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Visit our online shop to browse a host of
titles available to help you on your way to publishing your book.
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Subscribe to our Online Listings database in order to
browse the thousands of contacts within the Writers' & Artists'
Yearbook, plus hundreds more online-only entries. To purchase a
twelve-month subscription click here.
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