{"id":849142,"date":"2025-11-12T13:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/?page_id=849142"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:37:36","slug":"davina-bhanabhai","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/creative-writing-courses\/novel-writing-mentors\/davina-bhanabhai\/","title":{"rendered":"Davina Bhanabhai: Writing Mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Your writing mentor, Davina Bhanabhai<\/h1> <\/div>\r\n
Specialises in: Sensitivity reading, especially in contemporary, crime, thriller, women\u2019s fiction, romance, historical, children\u2019s, and YA.<\/div>
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About Davina<\/h2>

Davina is an authenticity editor who has worked with major publishers, indie publishers and self-published authors to help create authentic, representative works of fiction and non-fiction. She has delivered workshops about authenticity editing at the Jericho Writers London Festival of Writing and The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading conference.<\/p>\n

She is also an author (agented by Philippa Sitters Associates Ltd and on submission with her first non-fiction book). She was a Jericho Writers Friday Night Live (but on a Saturday!) Finalist in June 2025 at the Festival and has almost completed her first psychological thriller fiction book, from which she read the first 500 words out to a live audience of fellow writers and literary agents. Davina is an alumna of the HarperCollins Author Academy course, having a won a place in 2022.<\/p>\n

You can find out more about the topics Davina can provide sensitivity reading for below.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n