Gretchen Shirm will be teaching our new online course Start to Write: Fiction. We asked her to tell us more about her experience for getting started.

2020 scholarship winner Sanaz Fotouhi reflects on her experience of Writing a Novel.

Gabriella Marie Kelly-Davies, 2020 Writing True Stories scholarship winner on finding her voice.

2020 Writing for Children scholarship winner Arty J. Owens reflects.

Annie de Monchaux, the first person to complete our Author to Author mentoring program, was thrilled.

We asked Angela Meyer why it is so important to be able to edit your own work.

After more than 20 years of experience in the book industry, Jacinta di Mase started her own literary agency in 2004. We asked her to tell us what happened then.

Towards the latter part of your publishing journey – as editing is well underway – you will be introduced to your Publicist. What does this working relationship entail?

Rebecca Kaiser, Editorial Director at Allen & Unwin tells us about the editor’s job, their skills and what it takes to make the best book possible.

How to avoid “becoming lost, tangled in razor-sharp vines, bogged down in treacherous swamps, or overrun by wild animals.” PLUS great tips on establishing a successful writers’ group.

Does this sound like you? Curious, stubborn, humble and willing to learn. Then perhaps you have what it takes to be a novelist.

Simone Howell tells us about the history of YA books, the possibilities for YA authors and what it takes to create a great piece of work.

We asked R.W.R. McDonald to tell us more about the new online course Crime Fiction Lab he has developed with Katherine Kovacic.