‘In the aftermath of Bangladesh’s bloody war of independence in 1971, as thousands of impoverished migrants from the countryside flood the capital, journalist Khaleque Biswas begins to feel the
TLC client Matthew Hilton has signed a collaboration contract with Australian composer Taran Carter for Mau Mau – the Opera. Speaking about the inspiration behind the opera, Matthew said: “Some
TLC Showcase writer and winner of the TLC Pen Factor Writing Competition Guinevere Glasfurd has sold the UK rights to her debut novel, The Words In My Hand to Two Roads.
To launch the 2015 application season for the Northern Writers’ Awards, which TLC supports with its Free Reads bursary scheme, regional writing organisation New Writing North toured four northern cities to
We are thrilled to share that Beth Miller, who in 2009 won a mentoring award through a scheme run by TLC, has had her first book When We Were Sisters published by
We’re delighted to feature a guest post from Laura Primiceri, who has been interning with us here at TLC on Wednesdays and Thursdays for the past two months. We
Michelle Wareham first came to TLC for an assessment of her historical novella, Under Gaslight, in May 2014. The manuscript was read by TLC editor Anna South, who was impressed
As part of our Literary Conference programme, we opened up a limited number of free tickets to writers whose work our nearby Free Reads partners had deemed to be of merit.
We are delighted for Jemma Borg, whose new collection of poetry, The Illuminated World, is due to be published by Eyewear Publishing later this year. Speaking about the road to
We are delighted for Alan Wilkinson, a longstanding non-fiction reader for TLC, who has been selected to receive a coveted artist’s residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos,
Gill Farrer-Halls, author of The Aromatherapy Bible and TLC’s resident MBS assessor, has a new book forthcoming with Jessica Kingsley Publishing’s complementary and alternative health imprint, Singing Dragon. Drawing on her extensive
Liam Brown, who came through our Arts Council Free Reads bursary scheme, has had world rights to his debut novel, Real Monsters, bought by Legend Press. The book is due for
