Abourachid Named TLC Pen Factor Winner 2023
The winner of the 2023 TLC Pen Factor Prize has been announced as Ptissem Abourachid
Overwhelm Surgery
By the end of the workshop writers will have practical tools to reduce anxiety, stress and calm an overactive mind, leaving the workshop with a greater sense of peace, resilience, and confidence.
Online Write Club
Every last Sunday of the month, Being A Writer hosts an online write club from 10am to 12.30pm (UK time).
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 […]
Whose Voice is it Anyway?
Finding a voice People talk a lot about finding your own voice when writing fiction, and I’ve heard people who think this a bit strange: who else’s voice would you, […]
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’ […]
Why Writers Need a Business Mindset
A steep learning-curve As well as writing all my life, I’ve also spent all my working life in education, in some form or another. This meant that when I left […]
Stepping Stones to Success
Stepping Stones to Success When I first started writing, I thought there were three steps to getting published: Write a novel Get an agent Get a publishing deal Sounds easy […]
Raising the Visibility of Women in Non-fiction
The Literary Consultancy is delighted to be supporting The Thinking Woman’s Writing Award, set up by author Kate Jegede. Applications will open 14th September for the Award, which will gift […]
On Literary Fiction, and Literary Snobbery
Recently I read an article dating back to 2014 where novelist and journalist Will Self posed the question “is the novel dead?” The inference being that literary works, unlike genre […]
Craft: Why It Matters
I run a local writing group – Wear Valley Writers – and we’ve occasionally had new members who’ve turned up, said they’re poets, and read us a few of their […]
The Tricky Question of Genre
Emily Brontë never worried whether Wuthering Heights fell into New Adult or Adult, Jane Austen didn’t lose sleep about whether her tone was too literary for her target market. So, […]
