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The Big Writing Club 2015 – 2016

Welcome to the Big Writing Club, an on-line club for writers where you set daily, weekly and monthly writing deadlines – and are supported by your fellow writers and top coach Suzy Greaves. Here are your mentors for the course.

 

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Lucy Atkins

Lucy is an award winning author and feature journalist. Her new novel, The Other Child, is out now. The Sunday Times called her début novel, The Missing One a ‘gripping page turner’. It was Psychologies Magazine’s first book club pick and reached number 11 on the UK paperback bestseller chart.

Lucy is also the author, co-author, or ghostwriter of eight non-fiction books and is a Sunday Times book critic. She has written features for UK newspapers including The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Express, The Times, and magazines such as Red, Woman & Home, Psychologies and Grazia. She has lived in Philadelphia, Seattle and Boston, and is now settled in Oxford, UK with her husband, three children and dog.

For news and events see www.lucyatkins.com. Follow Lucy on Twitter @lucyatkins

Lucy Atkins is also available as a mentor on the Big Writing Programme. To apply to work with Lucy for 6 months, please send an email to: info@bigwritingclub.com

Masterclass:
In this one hour session, Lucy Atkins will be talking about her journey to write her first novel and be sharing:

  • Why doubting yourself is normal.
  • How to work up an idea into a story.
  • How to get to the page every day<./li>
  • How to find an agent.

October 5th 2015
8-9pm Masterclass (via conference call)
How to write an award-winning novel with Lucy Atkins


Caroline Green

Caroline is an award -winning author of fiction for young people. Her first novel, Dark Ride won the RONA Young Adult Book of the Year and the Waverton Good Read Award.

Cracks and Hold Your Breath were shortlisted for eleven awards between them, including: The Amazing Book Award; The Catalyst Book Award The Leeds Book Award; The Hampshire Book Award; Sefton Super Reads, the Oldham Book Award and The Stockport Book Award.

She is the Writer in Residence at East Barnet School and teaches Creative Writing for Children at City University.

Caroline has been a journalist for over twenty years and has written for many broadsheet newspapers and glossy magazines.

Follow her on Twitter @carolinesgreen and check out www.carolinegreen.net.

Caroline Green is  also available as a mentor on the Big Writing Programme. To apply to work with Caroline for 6 months, please send an email to: info@bigwritingclub.com

Praise for Caroline’s books:

“Beautifully crafted, fast-paced thriller in which nothing is as it seems.”
The Times on Cracks

“Caroline Green’s thriller is taut and suspense-packed right up to the last page.”
Financial Times on Cracks

“A top notch thriller, nuanced and enthralling.”
Literary Review on Hold Your Breath

Masterclass:
Young Adult fiction is a hugely successful genre with sales up 150% over the last few years. Caroline Green shares an insider view on what sells and what pitfalls to avoid. In this one hour session she’ll answer questions such as: what is YA fiction anyway? And what are the rules on what you can and can’t write?

November 2nd 2015
8-9pm Masterclass (via conference call)
How to write a YA novel with Caroline Green


Michael Booth

Michael is the award-winning, best-selling author of five works of non-fiction, as well as a journalist, broadcaster and speaker.

  • ‘Just As Well I’m Leaving – To the Orient with Hans Christian Andersen’, nominated for an Irish Times first time author award.
  • Sacré Cordon Bleu’, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
  • ‘Sushi and Beyond’, which won a Guild of Food Writers award and has recently become a best seller in translation in Japan.
  • ‘Eat, Pray, Eat’, which was nominated for a British Press Award.
  • ‘The Almost Nearly Perfect People – Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia’, also a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

 

He has written for all of the UK broadsheet newspapers, as well as numerous magazines in the UK and abroad including Condé Nast Traveller and Monocle, for whom he is currently a correspondent. His books have been translated into several languages. He writes predominantly about travel, food, France, Japan and the Nordic region.

Masterclass:
You will learn how to:

  • Travel the world, eat fantastic food and get paid for it.
  • How to hone ideas, compose pitches and write book proposals.
  • How to make a living as a food and travel writer.

 

 December 7th 2015
Masterclass 8-9pm (via conference call)
How to make a living as a food and travel writer with Michael Booth


Lorna V

Lorna V is a journalist, journalism lecturer, writing coach and writer-performer. She has written Psychologies magazine’s first branded book Real Confidence (published by Capstone/Wiley in January 2016), and is currently working on Real Ambition. As a journalist she has contributed widely to broadsheets and tabloids, glossies and weeklies. Her editing experience includes four years heading Time Out’s Sell Out (lifestyle-consumer) section.

  • Shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Theatre Award
  • Completed one year Soho Theatre Writers’ Attachment Programme (which is by invitation only)
  • Presented as writer-performer at Chelsea Arts Collective, Lion & Unicorn theatre, Battersea Arts Centre

Follow her on Twitter@LornaVwriter and check out www.LornaV.com. (click on Success Stories and Writing mentor-trainer for testimonials on her coaching).

Lorna V is available as a mentor on the Big Writing Programme. To apply to work with Lorna V for 6 months, please send an email to: info@bigwritingclub.com.

Masterclass:
Resolutions and intentions, goals and ambitions, dreams and fantasies: unravelling what we want, what we can do, and where we want to be.

This is for you if….

  • You find that working out what you want to write and how you’re going to go about it sometimes drives you mad.
  • You find that drawing up lists and sticking to the plan doesn’t always working.
  • You get frustrated because your work-in-progress has a mind of its own.
  • You go from one extreme of no confidence to another extreme of total conviction – and then worry you live in fantasy land.
  • You are getting a muddle over what’s do-able, what to aim for and how big to dream.

January 4th 2016
8-9pm Masterclass (via conference call)
How to make 2016 your best writing year yet with Lorna V


Elizabeth Heathcote

Elizabeth is the Associate editor at Psychologies magazine. She has extensive experience as a freelance writer, editor and staff writer. She knows the profession from both sides of the fence and will show you how to jump it. Elizabeth says, “I know what editors are looking for – and as a writer I know how hard it can be to provide it.”

  • Former women’s editor, deputy features editor and various other senior positions at the Independent on Sunday.
  • Freelance feature writer for Psychologies, Marie Claire, Observer, Independent, Times, Red and others.
  • Former contributing editor, Marie Claire.
  • Former agony aunt for Cosmogirl magazine.
  • Ghostwriter.

Elizabeth Heathcote is also available as a mentor on the Big Writing Programme. To apply to work with Caroline for 6 months, please send an email to: info@bigwritingclub.com

Masterclass
In this one hour masterclass you will learn how to earn money from writing by following these steps:

  • Specialise – learn what you are good at and make sure other people do.
  • Research – tailor your pitch.
  • Write to the brief.
  • Be gracious about rewrites – learn the power of saying “no problem”.
  • Winkle out lucrative corners – ask where editors need help, try to give them what they need.
  • Be flexible and prepared to work at short notice.

February 1th 2016
8-9pm Masterclass (via conference call)
How to earn money from writing with Elizabeth Heathcot

March – May 2016: The Artist’s Way facilitated by Suzy Greaves

Suzy Greaves will be facilitating Julia Cameron’s best selling course The Artist’s Way weekly for 3 months in the spring.

With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life you will travel through a comprehensive program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.

Suzy says, “Unleash your creativity with this legendary, life changing course.”

June to August 2016: 90 days to write a book
  • 12 week course where we set a goal to write 1,000 words a day.
  • Create a first draft in 90 days.
  • Online classes with Suzy Greaves.
  • First Monday of the month.

 

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