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Plus a reminder
of Hachette's Mo Siewcharran Prize deadline date...!
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In this week's special Just Announced newsletter, we're
shouting about our new competition collaboration with London Lit Lab that's
all about the power of opening lines. Also announcing the return of Zoe
Gilbert's popular Fantastic Fiction: Writing Magical Worlds online writing
course, as well as the exclusive offers and discounts currently available to
our Community Members. Exciting opportunities await, so read on!
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We’ve teamed up with
creative writing organisation London
Lit Lab for a competition all about favourite opening
lines.
Whether you’re a writer of fiction or non-fiction, you understand the
importance of grabbing your reader’s attention. Share with us your
all-time favourite opening line to be in with a chance of winning a
fantastic prize bundle, including places at creative writing events led
by London Lit Lab and Writers & Artists, as well books and creative
writing guides. Our winner will be armed with all the tools they need to
develop their own writing!
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Meet the founders of London Lit Lab
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Lily Dunn
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Lily Dunn is an author, mentor and academic. She is the
author of Shadowing the
Sun (Portobello Books, 2007), and Sins of My Father: A Daughter, A Cult, A Wild
Unravelling, a memoir about the legacy of her father’s
addictions (W&N), which was a Guardian Book of the Year 2022. You can
find her personal essays in Granta, Hinterland, MIR Online, The Real
Story and Litro, and she is a regular writer for Aeon. She is co-editor
of A Wild and Precious
Life (Unbound, 2021). She teaches creative writing at Bath
Spa University and co-runs London Lit Lab.
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Zoe Gilbert
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Zoe Gilbert is an author, creative writing teacher and
mentor specialising in short and long form fiction. Her first novel, Folk (Bloomsbury,
2018), was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and adapted for BBC
radio. Her second, Mischief
Acts (Bloomsbury, 2022), is a Sunday Times Book of the Year
2022. Both draw on the folklore and landscape of Britain to create
alternative worlds. She is also co-editor of A Wild and Precious Life (Unbound, 2021).
Her stories have been published in anthologies and journals around the
world, been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and have won prizes including the
Costa Short Story Award. She is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the
University of Suffolk.
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7:00pm-8:30pm
(UK time) | Wednesday 1st November - Wednesday 6th December | Online |
£350
Are you a writer that bends the rules of reality? Do you look to
folklore, magic and the supernatural for inspiration in your writing?
Join award-winning author Zoe
Gilbert for a very special online course dedicated to
writing that comes with a fantastical edge.
This is a playful course that applies to any genre, suitable for writers
of all abilities, and comes packed with discussion, working examples and
practical exercises to be taken away and applied to your own work. All
course participants will have the exclusive opportunity to submit 2000
words to Zoe who will send written feedback on the piece back to the
writer. This is entirely optional and comes at an additional cost of £50.
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Please
note that payment instalment plans are available for all W&A events,
writing courses and editing services. Contact W&A Admin on events@writersandartists.co.uk so that we can find a
payment schedule that works for you.
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W&A
Community Members can head to the Exclusive Offers and Discounts tile on
their Dashboard to find the following offers:
·
30% off the Writers'
& Artists' Yearbook 2023 and the Children's Writers' &
Artists' Yearbook 2023
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15% off selected Bloomsbury
Poetry titles
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2FOR1 tickets at the BFI Southbank
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20% off Scrivener,
the go-to app for writers
If you're not yet a Community
Member, all you need to do is sign up to writersandartists.co.uk (it's
free!) and
head to your Dashboard to take unlock these offers. But hurry; once
they're gone, they're gone!
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With
over 4,000 industry contacts and over eighty articles from a wide
range of leading authors and publishing industry professionals,
the latest edition of this bestselling Yearbook is packed with
all of the practical information, inspiration and guidance you
need at every stage of your writing and publishing journey.
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The
indispensable guide to writing for children of all ages from
pre-school to young adults, this Yearbook provides inspirational
articles from dozens of successful writers and illustrators on
how to get your work published. It includes a directory of over a
thousand up-to-date listings with contacts from across the media
and publishing industry.
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Hachette's
Mo Siewcharran Prize is all about discovering
unpublished fiction writers from Black, Asian, mixed heritage and
minority ethnic backgrounds. This year the focus is on picture books.
To be in with a chance of winning £2500 prize money, detailed
feedback from a Hachette picture book editor and much more,
entrants must submit a complete picture book text (500-700 words)
by 8th May 2023.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
50 Bedford Square,
London,
WC1B 3DP
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