Writers’ Cafe

Writers’ Cafe is a space where writers can come together and instead of writing, or giving peer feedback, we instead talk about our writing lives
January Member Events

January member events for Being A Writer. Creating a community of happier, healthier writers.
Creativity Lab: Courage

Join us for this event series in partnership with Write & Shine where we host themed early morning creative writing workshops.
Writers’ Cafe

Writers’ Cafe is a space where writers can come together to talk about our writing lives.
TLC Launches Self Editing Courses

TLC is delighted to announce two new tutored courses on self editing, offered online and developed in partnership with expert tutors.
TLC’s Aki Schilz Named Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

TLC’s CEO Aki Schilz has been announced as one of 62 new Fellows and Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature.
Wellbeing for Writers Forum: Publishing

So you have a publishing deal, now what? How can we navigate what wellbeing means once we’re published. What changes, what doesn’t, and what do we need to ensure that writers can truly thrive?
Wellbeing for Writers Forum: Pitching

What are the challenges to sustaining wellbeing when pitching work to the industry? How can we manage our expectations in order to move forwards, and not get stuck?
Abourachid Named TLC Pen Factor Winner 2023

The winner of the 2023 TLC Pen Factor Prize has been announced as Ptissem Abourachid
Is This Memoir Publishable? Dispatches from a Non-Fiction Editor

During my time as an assistant editor at a commercial publisher, we would receive many family history memoir submissions from people who’d inherited wartime stories about their grandparents or great-grandparents […]
Paul McVeigh Joins TLC Literary Adventure 2020

TLC is thrilled to announce the tutor for its Guardian-recommended Literary Adventure writing retreat 2020 is the award-winning novelist Paul McVeigh. Paul will be joining us September 5th-12th 2020 at the […]
TLC Plants Trees for Writers

This week, the Booksellers’ Association launched its first Green Manifesto, urging the book trade to keep environmental sustainability at the top of its priority list following a survey of members’ […]