The 2020 One-to-One Sessions will appear here in Spring 2020
Details of the 2019 One-to-One Sessions are retained below to give you an idea of what you might expect
Details of the 2019 One-to-One Sessions are retained below to give you an idea of what you might expect
2019 One-to-One Specialist Sessions
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Fran Tracey – Short Stories
Fran will offer constructive feedback on short stories, including suggesting markets and tailoring stories for submitting to women's magazines. She has had several hundred short stories published in UK and international magazines over the last 15 years, has won and been shortlisted in a number of national competitions and writes erotic shorts under the name Izzy French. She won the first ever Ann Summers Erotic Fiction Award. |
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Alison Chisholm – Poetry 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 and readings, runs an adult education poetry course and is an adjudicator of poetry competitions. |
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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. |
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Bettina von Cossel – All Genres
Bettina is a professional writer and gives talks about creative writing in local libraries. She has written seven novels and hundreds of short stories and is happy to review fiction prose and memoirs. She can help with plotting problems and storyline, too. Bettina has a small publishing house for romance novels, Mezzanotte, www.mezzanotte-publishing.co.uk. |
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Paul Dodgson – Radio Plays, Theatre Plays and prose Life Writing 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. His memoir On The Road Not Taken will be published by Unbound in August 2019. Paul has mentored many writers in the development of plays and memoirs. You can find out more about him here at www.writinglife.co.uk. |
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Della Galton – Short Stories 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 www.delagalton.co.uk. |
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Simon Hall – Crime and Thriller Novels
Simon is a tutor in creative writing and communication skills at the University of Cambridge, 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 that he helps the police to solve them. A former BBC Television and Radio News Correspondent, he also teaches media skills to politicians, civil servants and business leaders from the UK and across the world. See more on Simon at: www.thetvdetective.com. |
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Steve Hartley – Children's stories
Steve is the award-winning author of the popular Danny Baker Record Breaker and Oliver Fibbs series of children’s books, published by Macmillan. He is currently writing scripts with his wife and daughter, under the collective name Pig in a Ginnel. He is an experienced writing tutor, not only as a Swanwick regular, but also for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). Find out more at www.stevehartley.net. |
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Bridget Holding – All Genres
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. |
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Elizabeth Hopkinson – Short stories
Elizabeth has had around 80 short stories published in magazines, anthologies and podcasts, and has won prizes in 16 competitions. Many of these are retold or original fairy tales. She also writes historical fantasy novels. She will be happy to look at short stories and flash fiction, particularly in the fairy tale, fantasy and historical genres. elizabethhopkinson.uk. |
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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. |
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Tarja Moles – Non-Fiction Writing and Publication Tarja is a publisher, non-fiction writer and columnist for Writing Magazine. She’s created numerous books (e.g. her humorous bestseller The Xenophobe’s® Guide to the Finns). Her company Luscious Books publishes non-fiction. Tarja is happy to help you with your non-fiction writing and publication-related queries: www.tarjamoles.com; www.lusciousbooks.co.uk |
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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. |
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 2019.
(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 2019. Your individual time slot will then be allocated once at Swanwick.
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