Weekly Online Writing Events for Members

12 September, 16:00 BST

For this special Ask Us Anything event, we’ve invited two of our expert tutors on the Ultimate Novel Writing Course to answer all your novel-writing and publishing questions.

Joining us are Eliza Knight, award-winning and international bestselling author of over eighty titles (including both traditional and self-published books) and Sam Jordison, journalist, author and co-director of the award-winning Galley Beggar Press.

We bring you another amazing Ultimate Novel Writing Course tutor, Lindsey Alexander, who will lead you encouragingly down the path of the scary first draft. You will come away from this workshop with all the tools you need ready to nail it.

From a drone’s eye view to a single grain of sand… how to do a forensic edit of your novel

So you’ve finished a first draft of your novel. You’ve gone through it, checking for errors. You’ve cut sections, written new ones and moved things around. But is it as good as it can be?

Before you can even think about fixing typos, you need to make sure one fundamental question is answered: What is my book actually about? In this hour long workshop we’ll deep-dive into identifying the crux of our novels.

Discover the invaluable advice offered by Kiya Evans and Silé Edwards in our open Agents Q&A session. This provides a great preview of what’s in store for the rest of March.

A discussion on writing YA with Ultimate Novel Writing Students and their course mentor, Anna Vaught. They will be talking about their love of the genre, research, reading, editing and critiquing one another’s work.

A fun, informal and inspiring session where four writers of historical fiction from the Spring 22/23 cohort talked about their love of the genre, research, reading, editing and critiquing one another’s work.

We invited authors C.L. Taylor, Vikki Patis and Fiona Erskine to talk about their experiences of taking part in NaNoWriMo. We heard about their top tips, hear about their successful years (and their not so successful ones).

How do you find something to write about and how do you know if the concept is any good? Rosie Fiore joined us to run a practical session in persuading the idea fairy to hand ‘em over…. and showed us how to test an idea to see if it’s robust enough to support a compelling story.