Archive of Newsletters

New Writer Diary Newsletter May 2022

With information on The Grindstone International Novel Prize, the I AM Writing Festival 2022 and The Yeovil Literary Prize.

New Writer Diary Newsletter April 2022

Featuring the London Book Fair, the Bristol Short Story Prize and The Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award.

New Writer Diary Newsletter March 2022

This newsletter has info on The Bath Novel Award 2022, The Michael Terence Short Story Competition and 121 Online Sessions with Literary Agents through Iaminprint.

New Writer Diary Newsletter February 2022

Featuring The London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme, The Children’s & YA Fiction Festival and Work Book Day.

New Writer Diary Newsletter January 2022

This Newsletter features the Wattpad online Writing Community, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi & Crime Webinars from Writers Online and The ‘New Beginnings’ Poetry Competition
from Curtis Brown Creative.

New Writer Diary Newsletter December 2021

This Newsletter features information on The 2022 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, The BBC Writers Room Open Call and details of a Free 7 day Writing Coaching Programme.

New Writer Diary Newsletter November 2021

Containing information on the How To Write Crime, Thriller and Mystery day Sat 6th November 2021, The Historical Novel Society (HNS) and The King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (DARAH) inaugural Saudi Historical Fiction Awards for Short Stories & Novels and The Orna Ross Green Stories Novel Prize for novel manuscripts of entertaining mainstream fiction. 

New Writer Diary Newsletter October 2021

With information on the 2022 Discoveries Writing Development Programme
the Blue Pencil Agency Pitch Prize 2021 and the results for the Comedy Women In Print 2021 Published and Unpublished Novels Shortlists

New Writer Diary Newsletter September 2021

With information on the Writers’ & Artists’ Guild to Getting Published, W&A Events Masterclasses on the Writing Process, in association with Book Aid International, the Mslexia Women’s Fiction Competition and the Bedford International Creative Writing Prize for Short Stories and Poems.

New Writer Diary Newsletter August 2021

This month’s newsletter features information on the recently announced Long Lists from The Booker Prize and the Comedy Women In Print Prize plus new Writing Courses from Writers & Artists and Curtis Brown Creative.

New Writer Diary Newsletter July 2021

This month’s newsletter contains information on The Newark Book Festival, Capital Crime’s Amazon sponsored competition for new Crime & Thriller Writers and the Author Services offered by Faber & Faber.

New Writer Diary Newsletter May/June 2021

This Newsletter features information on The Hay-on-Wye Festival online events in June, The Writing Magazine Grand Prize 2021 and How to Write A Memoir I Am In Print’s free online Panel event with live Q&A.

New Writer Diary Newsletter April 2021

Featuring details of The Bath Novel Award – deadline 31st May, The Comedy Women in Print Award – deadline 28th May and The Moth magazine Short Story Competition – deadline 30th June.

New Writer Diary Newsletter March 2021

With information on the Swanick Short Story Competition, The Hay Festival, 26 May-6 June 2021, which has just unveiled its free programme for schools and The Shortlist for the Fiction: Début prize in the British Book Awards 2021.

New Writer Diary Newsletter February 2021

With information on –The Jericho Writers’ Getting Published Event in March that will arm you with all the information you need to get your manuscript published, World Book Day 2021 in the UK and Ireland on Thursday 4th March and the Write a Short Story in a Weekend course with Helen M Walters.

New Writer Diary Newsletter January 2021

Featuring information on – A Night in with Ethan Hawke discussing his new novel, An online event on ‘How To Write Romance’ with one Commissioning Editor, one Literary Agent and four Authors and how to take part in International Book Giving Day.

New Writer Diary Newsletter December 2020

This Newsletter contains info on the new Writers’ & Artists’ Year Books 2021 from Bloomsbury Publishing, their first ever online Children’s & YA books Festival and free Children’s Book Activities to download.

New Writer Diary Newsletter November 2020

This month discover Curtis Brown Creatives’ fully funded creative writing courses, mentoring opportunities and scholarships for under-represented writers, The BBC Writers Room Call for for unsolicited scripts (TV, film, radio, stage or online) only in December 2020 plus how to get free information on every Literary Agency in the UK.

New Writer Diary Newsletter October 2020

With news from this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair considered one of the most important book fairs in the world “When people cannot travel, stories can.” Details of how to take part in November’s National Novel Writing Month and the announcement of the winners of the ‘Words on the Waterway’ writing competition.

New Writer Diary Newsletter September 2020

Here’s an opportunity to book One-to-one’s with Literary Agents Yasmin Kane, John Baker and Hannah Sheppard, the inaugural Chapter Book Prize from Writing Magazine and The Autumn 2020 Poetry Competition from The Global Soup Writing Group

New Writer Diary Newsletter August 2020

News of an online event with Richard Osman & Alexander Armstrong discussing Richard’s first novel “The Thursday Murder Club,” a chance to get a free copy of Dave Cohen’s book “How To Be Averagely Successful At Comedy” plus the Canal & River Trust competition.

New Writer Diary Newsletter July 2020

The Guardian’s new Masterclasses on Creative Writing, Debut Children’s Picture Book Authors sharing the ups & downs of their first year and ‘Discoveries’ a fantastic competition for women writers.

New Writer Diary Newsletter June 2020

With a great offer of a Free 7 Day Writing Coaching Programme from Katy Seagrove and news on The 2020 Bath Children’s Novel Award.

New Writer Diary Newsletter May 2020

With news about the Writing Magazine Grand Prize Short Story Competition, webinars with Authors, Agents & Publishers from ‘I Am In Print’ and some great writing courses from Curtis Brown Creative.