The Society of Authors hands out prizes:
Sebastian Faulks presented £60,500 in prize money to twenty-one writers on behalf of the Society of Authors. Check out the winners here.
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Society of Authors: £60,500 in prize money
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Beach reads
What will you read this summer? Check out the Independent’s 50 best summer reads
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Top tips for writing scripts
Our June speaker, Lucy Scher of The Script Factory, gave us some great insights into screenwriting that works - here are her top tips:
To improve your writing:
1. Read to learn from great scripts - note how they work, why they work.
2. Know what your script is really about? What is its meaning?
3. Send the [...]
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Going underground
Not only do we get the delicious treats of poems on the tube, I’ve just heard that the tube drivers have been given some quotes from Shakespeare et al to read out over the tannoy whilst we travel - apparently we need some culture first thing in the morning. How long before an aspiring writer/tube [...]
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Gorilla artist, Anthony Browne, becomes children’s laureate
Anthony Browne, the illustrator of over 40 books, was named the children’s laureate this week. He said: “Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the [...]
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Who are your readers?
Perhaps, it’s obvious, but when you are writing a book, you must think about your readers. Ask yourself who will buy your book? What tribe will connect with it? And if you met them, what would they say to you? The Guardian writes this weekend: ‘having this kind of writer-reader relationship is no bad thing. [...]
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LWC July speaker announced: Marie Phillips
Our July speaker will be the lovely Marie Phillips author of bestseller
Gods Behaving Badly. Check out her blog: The Woman Who Talked Much. Tickets released on June 10.
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Blood, murder and a dead Russian poet
Blood, murder and a dead Russian poet: 14 suspects are rounded up for the Theakstons
crime novel of the year award. Read more.
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Kate Atkinson would rather not be published
Kate Atkinson (author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum) tells Hay Festival she’d rather not be a published author. Read more.
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