The spring 2008, Staple magazine secured funding for two further years and began their next series with Staple 69/70: The Publishing Issue, a 285pp anthology guest-edited by Rebecca Swift of the
The Guardian voted TLC’s first Literary Adventure as on of the top five writing holidays. TLC’s first literary adventure, based on Koh Chang Island, Thailand, included tutorials, workshops and
Rebecca Swift visited China 25 March, 2008, to take part in the industry information section of the first Sino-British translation conference arranged by Arts Council England, Penguin China and
Write Words interviews Caroline McCarthy, Manager of The Literary Consultancy, about their new mentoring scheme for writers. Tell us about the mentoring scheme In short, the TLC mentoring scheme
TLC first attended the Port Eliot Literature festival in July 2005. Developing authors had the opportunity to have their writing critiqued by our team of expert readers and benefit
Over the course of summer 2005, TLC readers tutored writing workshops on the Greek Island of Skyros. Skyros, which was originally established by American psychologist Dr Dina Glouberman and
Rebecca Swift was short-listed for the prestigious Kim Scott Walwyn Memorial Prize and attended a prize-giving ceremony and dinner at Oxford University Press in December 2004, where Kym worked
In her article published in Pretext magazine, “When creativity meets commerce or the relationship between the publishing industry and the individual writers through the eyes of an interested observer”,
Rebecca Swift was interviewed on Australian radio channel ABC, when TLC attended the Melbourne Literary Festival in 1999. The radio programme Lingua Franca, hosted by Jill Kitson, seeks advice
“The chances are you will be familiar with being approached by friends or family and asked to read their jottings, autobiography, novel, whatever they have written and about which
In the early days of TLC, Rebecca Swift wrote an article in The Independent about writers groups and whether they were an effective forge for interesting new work, or
Before she established TLC in 1996, Rebecca Swift also worked as a book reviewer for The Independent. In one of her reviews, she takes a look at Jay Rayner’s
