ALT: Helping Hand Animation

The prize is back for the fourth year in a row, featuring a workshop for all participants and new judges.

We've got one fully-funded place available on our travel writing course in November. Apply now.

Missed last night’s #WomenWritersNet chat on #Writing the Future? You can catch up on this thread 🧵 here! If you like, feel free to add your own comments. We'd love to hear more from the…

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Islands of Abandonment, comes a new book about our relationship to the natural world.

Panels for the Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival

This Week’s Bit of String: The perils of a sunny day I’ll always remember the clear blue sky on September 11, 2001. I had a 9:00 a.m. doctor’s appointment, 5 days before my due date. I’d been…

Author of contemporary fiction

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See more of my drawing here For some time now I have been thinking about writing a book about drawing. And now, I have decided that I am going to do it. I have been drawing as long as I can remembe…

This Week’s Bit of String: On the bad list Year 10s strike again, keeping us extra busy now exams are finally done and the Year 11s have mostly left. There are the usual tousles: squirting water bo…

Literary agent Simon Trewin has died at the age of 60, after being diagnosed with a brain tumour at the end of March.

Dear Brandon and Serge, When I first ‘discovered my body’, let’s say, as a young man, I thought I had invented the act and went around...