Getting unstuck by Liz Berry
Poetry Judge
Getting unstuck… Sometimes, no matter how long or hard we work on a poem, it...
Young Writer Award
Our award is open to talented writers aged 16 to 25 taking early steps in...
Winning memoir extracts
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Louise Watts, Memoir Winner I have been writing for as long as I can...
Winning opened
doors I didn’t
know existed
by Fiona Williams
I never set out to be a writer. I am a reader first and foremost,...
Our memoir winners! Congratulations!
We’re thrilled to announce our memoir winners. Congratulations to the prize winners and thank you...
‘Don’t read reviews’
My writing life
by Sean Lusk
‘I lapsed once or twice’ ‘Don’t read your reviews’ is famously the advice given...
How to get an Agent
Chapter one. Why am I a leopord? I was once told the following story by...
One poem at a time:
how my book got made
I’m not sure I could say exactly how this book got made. On the one...
Overnight success
58 years in the making
by Nikki May
After 20 years of fast-paced London life running a busy advertising agency, I moved to...