Date: October 2023 – September 2024

Duration: 1 year

Price: £4,950 paid upfront or split into 11 monthly instalments of £495 (totalling £5,445).

Location: Online (open to students worldwide, with all calls taking place at GMT/BST).

Entry: By application only. Download a prospectus to find out how to apply.

Application deadline: 17 September 2023.

Questions? Contact our courses team via email or book a call for a time that suits you.

Weekly Tutorials

Detailed weekly tutorials will teach you the craft of professional writing – from plotting, to editing your own writing. You’ll also hear from special guest tutors such as top authors and literary agents.

Mentoring

Your personal tutor is here to give you regular individual feedback on your work. You’ll have monthly one-to-ones throughout the year as your work progresses and you enhance your creative writing skills.

Editorial Feedback

You’ll get a detailed, full-length editorial report on up to 100,000 words (worth more than £740!) from your assigned mentor after your first draft, and support as you implement any changes.

Publication Support

We’ll introduce you to literary agents through one-to-ones and guest webinars, and teach you how to self-publish successfully. You’ll also get a lifetime of ongoing publication support after the course from our team.

Community

You’ll be part of an exclusive student group in our warm online community. You can exchange feedback, ask questions or just hang out with new friends in your own private chat room.

Networking Events

You’ll attend an in-person celebration dinner, as well as an online networking event with handpicked agents. Plus have your work featured in our end-of-year anthology which is sent to top agents across the UK. Last year, more than 30% of all students featured received a full manuscript request.

You will be assigned a personal tutor to help guide you through the course, providing monthly one-to-one sessions and regular feedback on your work. (You will have the opportunity to select your preferred tutor during the application process). You’ll also get to know the other tutors throughout the course during the various modules across the year.

Natasha Bell

Cross-genre author, editor, and tutor

Specialisms: Natasha loves narrative in all forms, but has a particular passion for psychological suspense, women’s fiction, queer fiction, and stories that blur the line between truth and imagination.  

Natasha is an author, researcher, and creative writing tutor. Her novels ‘His Perfect Wife’ and ‘This Nowhere Place’ are available from Penguin. She’s also published a memoir with HarperCollins and short stories in a variety of journals and anthologies.  

She holds an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths and is finishing off a practice-led PhD in autofiction. In addition to editing and mentoring with Jericho Writers, she teaches novel-writing at City Lit and Faber Academy and mentors for The Riff Raff. She’s also worked as a sub-editor at The Press Association.  

Philip Womack  

Children’s author with a love of myths in literature 

Specialisms: Philip enjoys children’s books, young adult, literary fiction, fantasy, sci-fi & literary biography. 

Philip Womack is the author of nine critically acclaimed fantasy books for children. His latest, ‘Ghostlord’, was released in May 2023. His first work of non-fiction for adults, ‘How to Teach Classics to Your Dog’, was published in 2020, being a lively guide to the world and literature of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. ‘Write Your Own Myths’, a Creative Writing guide for children, appeared in 2021. He also writes reviews for national newspapers, including the Times Literary Supplement, the Financial Times, the Spectator, and the Literary Review. 

Philip has been an editor and mentor at Jericho Writers for many years and has taught Creative Writing at both BA and MA level.

Wes Brown  

Author & lecturer 

Specialisms: Wes loves non-fiction narratives, memoirs, literary, crime, true crime, YA, dystopian, and speculative fiction. 

Wes Brown is a writer, editor, and critic with a background in the publishing industry and many years’ experience teaching creative writing. He has published novels, short stories, reviews, and poems. His autobiographical novel about pro wrestling, ‘Breaking Kayfabe’, was published in May 2023. Wes has taught Creative Writing at the University of Kent, the University of East London and the City Lit and was awarded a CHASE PhD scholarship to research Narrative Non-Fiction. Wes strongly believes in working with authors to help them achieve their own artistic ideals rather than project his own. 

Helen Francis  

Former editor at Faber & Faber, book doctor, & scout 

Specialisms: Helen loves contemporary, women’s fiction, literary, crime, and young adult fiction, amongst a long list of genres.

Helen Francis has worked in publishing for nearly 20 years, in both publishing houses and literary agencies. Helen previously worked as a fiction project editor at Faber and Faber for eight years, and a commissioning fiction editor at Head of Zeus for two. She also ran the Classics list at Vintage, Penguin Random House, and was a freelance commissioning editor for Arcadia Books. Helen has also worked at literary agencies Abner Stein Associates and MBB Creative, as well as an international book scout for many years. Helen has taught creative writing and editing at Bath Spa University and is a Jericho Writers’ editor. 

Rosie Fiore  

Cross-genre writer, editor, and mentor  

Specialisms: Rosie specialises in a wide range of genres, including contemporary, literary, book club, romance, historical fiction, young adult, and crime and thriller.   

Rosie has worked as a novelist and as writer, mentor and editor in theatre, television, magazines, advertising, comedy and the corporate market for 30 years. As an editor for Jericho Writers, she has offered advice, support and mentoring to more than fifty novelists.  

Rosie Fiore was born and grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has also studied playwriting with the National Theatre. She is a teacher of creative writing, effective business writing, and English.  

Rosie has had eight novels published. She is published by Struik, Quercus and Allen & Unwin under her own name. Last year’s ‘Black’ and ‘Babies in Waiting’ were both longlisted for the South African Sunday Times Literary Award. Rosie is also published by Orion as Cass Hunter. ‘The After Wife’ was translated into nine languages and optioned for a film in China. 

Emily-Jane Clark 

Best-selling author, essayist, and comedy writer 

Specialisms: Emily-Jane specialises in contemporary fiction, women’s fiction, comedy/satire, historical fiction, picture books, children’s books, plays and screenwriting, memoir/autobiography, narrative non-fiction, subject-led non-fiction. 

Emily-Jane Clark is author of bestseller ‘SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK’.  This part-memoir, part-humorous survival guide for tired parents is five-star rated on Amazon and made the top one hundred of ALL books.    

Her first funny middle grade children’s novel ‘THE BEASTS OF KNOBBLY BOTTOM: ATTACK OF THE VAMPIRE SHEEP’ will be out in July 2023 as part of a two-book deal with Scholastic. She also writes features and essays for New Statesman, Metro UK, Huffington Post and Mirror Online.

Emily-Jane is also a successful comedy writer at the UK’s biggest satirical newspaper The Daily Mash and has worked on Mock the Week, The Jonathan Ross Show and Mash Report. Her work includes the viral sketch ‘F**k Off, say women’ starring Ellie Taylor, viewed more than four hundred million times on YouTube. Her scripts have also won Craft of Comedy New Writing Award, Sitcom Geeks Script Challenge, reached the finals of Funny Women Awards and been shortlisted for BBC Writers Room twice.  

Sam Jordison  

Writer, publisher, journalist and industry insider 

Specialisms: Sam loves all kinds of fiction including contemporary, literary, science fiction, fantasy, crime, thriller, and satire. He’s also an experienced editor of creative non-fiction, including memoirs, autobiographies, and other narrative non-fiction. 

Sam is the co-director of award-winning Galley Beggar Press, publishers of Lucy Ellmann’s ‘Ducks, Newburyport’ and Alex Pheby’s ‘Mordew’. He has written more than a dozen non-fiction titles including the bestselling ‘Crap Towns’ series and ‘Enemies of the People’, a commentary on the folks who brought us Brexit and Trump.

As a journalist, he mainly writes for the Guardian, and mainly about books. He writes fiction and non-fiction reviews and for several years ran the Not The Booker Prize, and the Guardian’s online book club, The Reading Group.