One-to-one specialist sessions
We are thrilled to be able to offer pre-booked one-to-one sessions with the following specialists. By booking a 20-minute session in advance, you will be able to send your chosen specialist a sample of your work and receive constructive feedback.
Specialists for 2018:
Graham Bartlett - Crime Writing (Sold out)
Graham, a former senior detective, who became Brighton’s police commander is now a best-selling author and advisor to crime fiction writers, including Peter James. He is happy to review written work and help authors with accuracy and insight into police procedure. Find out more at http://www.policeadvisor.co.uk/
Paul Beatty – World Building
Paul will be pleased to discuss your world building plans. Submit a one page outline that keeps in mind questions such as; what features either geographical, physical, political or cultural does your world have? What do you need your world to do or offer to your plot? What effect might your world have on your proposed characters? What effect would your world have on the limitations of narrative voice or other technical issues?
Kate Bendelow - CSI: Forensic Advice for Crime Writers
Kate is a serving Crime Scene Investigator with over fifteen years’ experience of working on crime scenes. She is the also the author of 'The Real CSI: A Forensic Handbook for Crime Writers'. Kate is happy to review written work that includes CSI and forensic issues to ensure accuracy.
Alison Chisolm - Poetry (Sold out)
Alison writes regular poetry columns for Writing Magazine. Her poems have been widely published, as well as broadcast on TV and radio. The author of various writing textbooks including ‘Crafting Poetry’ and of eleven poetry collections, she gives talks, readings, runs an adult education poetry course and is an adjudicator of poetry competitions.
Malcolm Chisholm - Self Publishing
Malcolm’s aim is to help you get your print and e-books into the marketplace at no cost. He is the author of Self Publishing in Four Formats, available free of charge from smashwords.com . If you’ve completed your book, familiarise yourself with the self-publishing options and have it ready to email to him prior to your one to one.
Paul Dodgson - Radio Plays, Theatre Plays and prose Life Writing. (Sold out)
Paul is a writer, producer, musician and teacher who has written and produced extensively for BBC radio and television, including 3 acclaimed memoir plays for BBC Radio 4. Paul has mentored many writers in the development of plays and memoirs. You can find out more about him here at http://www.writinglife.co.uk/
Della Galton – Short Stories (Sold out)
Della is a novelist, short story writer and journalist. She's had over 1500 short stories published in the UK alone and she's run out of fingers to count her books on. Find out more at http://www.dellagalton.co.uk/
Simon Hall – Crime and Thriller Novels
Simon is a BBC Television and Radio News Correspondent, and an author of crime fiction. His books - the tvdetective series - are about a television reporter who covers crimes and gets so involved in the cases he helps the police to solve them. He lectures on careers in the media at Cambridge University, and in schools and colleges. See more on Simon at: www.thetvdetective.com
Bridget Holding - All Genres (Sold out)
Bridget is a writer, psychotherapist, and tutor of creative writing for The University of Exeter. In previous incarnations she was a screenwriter, as well as an associate lecturer for The Open University. She mentors and runs holidays for writers, through her company Wild Words. She is happy to review fiction or non-fiction prose, screenplay, poetry or a story synopsis.
Ingrid Jendrzejewski – Competition Entries & Flash Fiction
Ingrid primarily writes short stories and flash fiction and has published over 100 pieces since she started submitting in 2014. She has won 15 writing competitions, judged 5, and has placed or been shortlisted in over 50 more. She is currently editor-in-chief at FlashBack Fiction and a flash fiction editor at JMWW. You can find her online at www.ingridj.com.
John Lamont - Succeed on Purpose
John’s Succeed on Purpose programme is about using our minds in the best possible way to achieve success in our chosen purpose(s) in life. A 1-to-1 session will give us the chance to look at how we define our purpose, how we’re doing with the search for success, what’s stopping us or even perhaps what’s making us successful already – so that we can do more of the same.
Sue Moorcroft – Popular Fiction (Sold out)
Sue Moorcroft is a Sunday Times and international bestselling author and has reached the coveted #1 spot on Amazon Kindle. A winner of the Readers’ Best Romantic Novel award and the Katie Fforde Bursary, she has been nominated for several other awards, including a RoNA. Her short stories, serials, columns, writing ‘how to’ and courses have appeared around the world. Catch up with her at: http://www.suemoorcroft.com
Daniel Page - Comedy (Sold out)
Daniel is a freelance Writer and Script Editor of jokes, sketch and sitcom, as well as Chief Egg at Why did the Chicken?, which provides affordable script services to comedy creatives. His credits include BBC's Breaking the News and Newsjack and his debut sitcom script was in the top 14% of the BBC 2015 Comedy Scriptroom. He will be happy to discuss sitcom and sketch scripts up to 6 pages long. www.whydidthechicken.com
Benjamin Scott - Children and Young Adult (Sold out)
As well as writing children’s books, Benjamin offers private editorial support and coaching to other writers. He is an experienced creative writing tutor, a reviewer across all age groups and genres for Carousel Magazine and works on the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ Undiscovered Voices anthology. Find out more here: http://www.benjaminscott.net/
Please note that due to their popularity these sessions are often oversubscribed so you are advised to book early. The closing date for one to one bookings is 30th June 2018.
(See the Booking page for how to book. You can also pay for your one-to-one session online when you book and pay for your place at Swanwick).
After the closing date, details of submission requirements and how to submit your work will be sent to you individually. To give sufficient time for review you should send your work to your chosen specialist before 22nd July 2018. Your individual time slot will then be allocated once at Swanwick.
Specialists for 2018:
Graham Bartlett - Crime Writing (Sold out)
Graham, a former senior detective, who became Brighton’s police commander is now a best-selling author and advisor to crime fiction writers, including Peter James. He is happy to review written work and help authors with accuracy and insight into police procedure. Find out more at http://www.policeadvisor.co.uk/
Paul Beatty – World Building
Paul will be pleased to discuss your world building plans. Submit a one page outline that keeps in mind questions such as; what features either geographical, physical, political or cultural does your world have? What do you need your world to do or offer to your plot? What effect might your world have on your proposed characters? What effect would your world have on the limitations of narrative voice or other technical issues?
Kate Bendelow - CSI: Forensic Advice for Crime Writers
Kate is a serving Crime Scene Investigator with over fifteen years’ experience of working on crime scenes. She is the also the author of 'The Real CSI: A Forensic Handbook for Crime Writers'. Kate is happy to review written work that includes CSI and forensic issues to ensure accuracy.
Alison Chisolm - Poetry (Sold out)
Alison writes regular poetry columns for Writing Magazine. Her poems have been widely published, as well as broadcast on TV and radio. The author of various writing textbooks including ‘Crafting Poetry’ and of eleven poetry collections, she gives talks, readings, runs an adult education poetry course and is an adjudicator of poetry competitions.
Malcolm Chisholm - Self Publishing
Malcolm’s aim is to help you get your print and e-books into the marketplace at no cost. He is the author of Self Publishing in Four Formats, available free of charge from smashwords.com . If you’ve completed your book, familiarise yourself with the self-publishing options and have it ready to email to him prior to your one to one.
Paul Dodgson - Radio Plays, Theatre Plays and prose Life Writing. (Sold out)
Paul is a writer, producer, musician and teacher who has written and produced extensively for BBC radio and television, including 3 acclaimed memoir plays for BBC Radio 4. Paul has mentored many writers in the development of plays and memoirs. You can find out more about him here at http://www.writinglife.co.uk/
Della Galton – Short Stories (Sold out)
Della is a novelist, short story writer and journalist. She's had over 1500 short stories published in the UK alone and she's run out of fingers to count her books on. Find out more at http://www.dellagalton.co.uk/
Simon Hall – Crime and Thriller Novels
Simon is a BBC Television and Radio News Correspondent, and an author of crime fiction. His books - the tvdetective series - are about a television reporter who covers crimes and gets so involved in the cases he helps the police to solve them. He lectures on careers in the media at Cambridge University, and in schools and colleges. See more on Simon at: www.thetvdetective.com
Bridget Holding - All Genres (Sold out)
Bridget is a writer, psychotherapist, and tutor of creative writing for The University of Exeter. In previous incarnations she was a screenwriter, as well as an associate lecturer for The Open University. She mentors and runs holidays for writers, through her company Wild Words. She is happy to review fiction or non-fiction prose, screenplay, poetry or a story synopsis.
Ingrid Jendrzejewski – Competition Entries & Flash Fiction
Ingrid primarily writes short stories and flash fiction and has published over 100 pieces since she started submitting in 2014. She has won 15 writing competitions, judged 5, and has placed or been shortlisted in over 50 more. She is currently editor-in-chief at FlashBack Fiction and a flash fiction editor at JMWW. You can find her online at www.ingridj.com.
John Lamont - Succeed on Purpose
John’s Succeed on Purpose programme is about using our minds in the best possible way to achieve success in our chosen purpose(s) in life. A 1-to-1 session will give us the chance to look at how we define our purpose, how we’re doing with the search for success, what’s stopping us or even perhaps what’s making us successful already – so that we can do more of the same.
Sue Moorcroft – Popular Fiction (Sold out)
Sue Moorcroft is a Sunday Times and international bestselling author and has reached the coveted #1 spot on Amazon Kindle. A winner of the Readers’ Best Romantic Novel award and the Katie Fforde Bursary, she has been nominated for several other awards, including a RoNA. Her short stories, serials, columns, writing ‘how to’ and courses have appeared around the world. Catch up with her at: http://www.suemoorcroft.com
Daniel Page - Comedy (Sold out)
Daniel is a freelance Writer and Script Editor of jokes, sketch and sitcom, as well as Chief Egg at Why did the Chicken?, which provides affordable script services to comedy creatives. His credits include BBC's Breaking the News and Newsjack and his debut sitcom script was in the top 14% of the BBC 2015 Comedy Scriptroom. He will be happy to discuss sitcom and sketch scripts up to 6 pages long. www.whydidthechicken.com
Benjamin Scott - Children and Young Adult (Sold out)
As well as writing children’s books, Benjamin offers private editorial support and coaching to other writers. He is an experienced creative writing tutor, a reviewer across all age groups and genres for Carousel Magazine and works on the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ Undiscovered Voices anthology. Find out more here: http://www.benjaminscott.net/
Please note that due to their popularity these sessions are often oversubscribed so you are advised to book early. The closing date for one to one bookings is 30th June 2018.
(See the Booking page for how to book. You can also pay for your one-to-one session online when you book and pay for your place at Swanwick).
After the closing date, details of submission requirements and how to submit your work will be sent to you individually. To give sufficient time for review you should send your work to your chosen specialist before 22nd July 2018. Your individual time slot will then be allocated once at Swanwick.
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