Full details of the tutorials and 15% money off below, plus BPA First Novel Award 2022:
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Craft Tutorials
ONLINE VIA ZOOM
It's
your last chance to receive a 15% discount when you sign up to
our first three craft tutorials of the year. We're thrilled to
have creative writing expert Emma Darwin joining us
again for three sessions on the core aspects of the novelist's
craft, kicking off this Thursday.
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CHARACTERS & THEMES
Craft Tutorial | Emma Darwin | 6 – 8 pm
In this practical workshop we’ll think about how characters can
show you what your themes are, and conversely how you might
create characters who embody those themes. We’ll explore what
that means for characterisation from the page-by-page scale to
the arc of your novel, and try our hands with some short
exercises; you should leave with a new understanding of what
makes storytelling tick.
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PLOT & STRUCTURE
Craft Tutorial | Emma Darwin | 6 – 8 pm
Thinking of structure as the architecture of a novel, and plot as
the engineering, can be very helpful – but without characters
acting and interacting on your pages, who would ever read it? In
this workshop we’ll dig into how plot and structure are built
through the actions of your characters to become a story that
keeps the reader reading.
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VOICE & PROSE
Craft Tutorial | Emma Darwin | 6 – 8pm
Voice is the element
which all agents and editors say they are looking for in a
manuscript – but that’s by no means the only reason to work hard
on the word-by-word text and textures of your novel: in the end,
the words on the page are all you have to transmit your story.
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Industry Expert Q&A Sessions
ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Alice Jolly and J. David Simons
have been published in a variety of contexts, working with
traditional and independent publishers and also taking matters
into their own hands. Which route is the right one for your
novel? Do you need a literary agent? Sign up to our Feb 8 tutorial
to pick their brains on how to publish beyond the mainstream.
We're also accepting bookings for a Q&A with the literary
agent judges of the BPA First Novel Award, Rowan Lawton
and Marina
de Pass of The Soho Agency.
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PUBLISHING: BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM
Q&A | Alice Jolly & J. David
Simons
| 6 – 7.30 pm
In this Q&A session, authors J David Simons and Alice Jolly
will discuss various ways of getting published beyond the
mainstream, such as self-publishing or working with smaller
independents, hybrid models and crowdfunders like Unbound.
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AGENT & COMPETITION
SUBMISSIONS
Q&A | Rowan Lawton & Marina de
Pass
| 6 – 7.30 pm
If you are considering submitting to our First Novel Award or
indeed any competitions for debut novel writers, this session
with our agent judges, Rowan Lawton and Marina de Pass from The
Soho Agency, will be invaluable. And even if you aren’t planning
on entering, they will have lots of tips on agent submissions and
how to make yours stand out.
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BPA First Novel Award 2022
DEADLINE: MAY
29
We
are now accepting entries to the BPA First Novel Award 2022.
Our judges, literary agents Rowan Lawton and Marina de Pass and
author Jo Bloom, can't wait to read your stories.
"First
making the longlist — and then the shortlist! — was such a huge
vote of confidence in my writing style and the story I was trying
to tell with Brotherhood and to actually win was unreal. It
helped not just in cementing my confidence in my writing (and
silencing my imposter syndrome) but it also inspired me to keep
working on my manuscript and to stick to deadlines when it came
to editing. I am over the moon to now be signed to FBA with
Carrie, and I cannot wait to see where things go next."
– Roisin
Lanigan, 2020 Winner
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