Applications for this year's mentorship are now open!!

Heard from a writer who attended some training sessions with us The Literary Consultancy 3 years ago and has put the skills gained to use in some amazing work this year. This is the kind of impact we have always been about - holistic and LONG TERM. Not everything is an instant box tick quick fix.

We announce the winner of the RofC Prize at Foyles on Wednesday. Come along and support small presses. Foyles Bookshop

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Learn how to build a community from the ground up for maximum impact, whilst retaining authenticity.

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My nature journal workshops are now LIVE:
60 min film(s) with species to look out for,the science of how contact w nature lifts mood, zoom sessions with me & a community blog.

Sign up for APRIL: workshops.emmamitchell.net/courses/nature…

Sign up for SPRING (April and May): workshops.emmamitchell.net/courses/nature…

Weekend reading 📚🐙

📢📢📢Our Post Feedback Workshops are now open for booking!

For writers who have had professional feedback. Learn how to implement your edits using the REVISE model, and build an action plan in just 2 hours. Do join me

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The The Literary Consultancy Self Editing Fiction course is now SOLD OUT, but we have spaces left on our Non Fiction course, starting 30th April. Are you a memoirist or creative non fiction writer looking for tips and tricks to self edit with confidence? Join us here: literaryconsultancy.co.uk/event/self-edi…

Doing some evaluation and since January, I have offered 17 The Literary Consultancy Power Hours, our consultancy one-to-one service. 100% of writers said they felt they had made progress towards achieving their goal as a result of their Power Hour. Isn't that something? literaryconsultancy.co.uk/tlc-power-hour/

The news is out - ESEA Lit Fest is back + bigger this September!

We're celebrating East & South East Asian literature with our good pals Foyles Bookshop again and excited to be expanding with an 800-seater finale at Southbank Centre (21-22 Sept)

Black and Asian women writers are invited to polish up their complete manuscripts and send them in to @sileedslitprize for a chance to win £4000!

Details here: sileedsliteraryprize.com

Wondering whether to apply for a Northern Promise TLC Award?

2022 winner Khatijah Balu says, 'It really helped strengthen my identity as a writer – from being a hobbyist to wanting to pursue publication.'

Read more about Khatijah's experience 👇
newwritingnorth.com/journal/khatij…

You guys are amazing - I am *completely fine* just very hangry. Here is me as a very happy baby to lighten the mood

I have been on a liquid diet since 28th March. Tomorrow is my check-up to see whether I am healed enough to move to solids. PLEASE SEND GOOD THOUGHTS if I have to eat any more soup I may throw it all at a wall in a fit of rage.

In this day and age, why are large organisations who 'value diversity and inclusion' still sharing

a) videos with no captions
b) images with no alt text
c) digital content with strobe or flashing lights?

Make it make sense

Every month through 2024 The Literary Consultancy will be sharing our top tips and expertise based on almost 3 decades of working with writers. In this month's blog...

How to Write the Perfect Pitch Letter

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#WritingCommmunity #writerslift #writersoftwitter #amquerying

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Are their any UK-based literary magazines looking for volunteer readers of prose, flash and/or poetry?

Hoping that reading submissions will stave off the temptation to start my own #litmag again 😂

📢 Deadline approaching 📢

Applications for round 20 of Developing your Creative Practice (DYCP) close in a few days, at 12pm (midday) on Thursday 11 April.

🔗 Find out more about the fund and future rounds 👉 buff.ly/3PIi14q

2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the RSL Ondaatje Prize.🏆

For 20 years, we’ve brought together amazing books spanning many different literary forms and diverse themes – all united in invoking the spirit of a place. 🗺

The Ondaatje Prize has supported 20 authors so far: we’re…