The Writing Coach team of consultants are all chosen by Jacqui Lofthouse and are available to work with you on your manuscript or as your mentor or coach. All consultants are either published writers, professional editors, trained coaches or university lecturers, and all have broad experience of working with developing and experienced writers.
Your writing work receives nurturing, individual attention, with a focus on strengths-based feedback which is honest, constructive, practical and inspiring. We are always happy to advise you on who is the perfect team-member for your needs. It is our job to support you on the path to creative fulfilment and success as a writer.
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Jacqui Lofthouse
Jacqui Lofthouse is Founder of The Writing Coach. She is the author of four novels including the bestselling ‘Bluethroat Morning’, and the critically acclaimed ‘The Temple of Hymen’. She is currently working on her own fifth novel. Full profile → -
Billy Cowan
Billy has an MPhil(B) in playwriting from Birmingham University and is an award-winning playwright and short story writer. For twelve years he taught Creative Writing at Edge Hill University where he was a judge and the convenor of the Edge Hill Prize.
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Lucy Kaufman
Lucy Kaufman is an award-winning playwright, whose plays have been performed professionally around the UK and Australia, attracting full houses of audiences from far and wide and garnering 5-star reviews.
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Rowena Goldman
Rowena Goldman is a published author and dramatist. Her writing credits include ‘The Mediterranean Health Diet’, published by Hodder Headline, and she is co-librettist and lyricist of the stage musicals ‘A Tale of Little Italy’ and ‘Up Is There’, both currently in development.
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Ben Stoll
Ben is a very experienced editor who has worked for a number of years with a wide variety of screenwriters, from those just starting out in TV Drama to some of the most well established names in the industry.
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Delia Lloyd
Delia Lloyd is a London-based communications expert with over 25 years of experience as a writer, editor and coach. She brings together an unusual mix of rigorous, analytic thinking with an authentic, accessible voice.
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Alison Belsham
In 2016, Alison Belsham pitched her novel, The Tattoo Thief, in Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect competition and won. She signed with a leading agent shortly afterwards, and The Tattoo Thief went on to become an international bestseller, translated into 15 different languages.
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Katy Massey
Katy Massey writes fiction and scripts, as well as non-fiction and worked as a journalist for many years before completing her PhD on memoir and autobiography at Newcastle University.
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Mark Leggatt
Mark is the author of five books and a former technology specialist. He is an editor and mentor, whether over Skype or email. Mark is also a member of the author touring group ‘Four Blokes In Search of a Plot’, a show which performs in theatres and arts venues.
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Bryony Pearce
Bryony Pearce is a writer of Young Adult (YA) and Adult novels and short stories. After completing her MA in English Literature at Cambridge University, she worked as a Research Manager before publication of her award-winning debut YA novel, Angel’s Fury.
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Alasdair Mackay
Alasdair Mackay is a screenwriter and director currently working in the film industry. He has written 15 feature film scripts, numerous award-winning short films and a TV series that is due to launch internationally on Amazon Prime.
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Stephanie Zia
Stephanie Zia edits both fiction and nonfiction at Blackbird Digital Books where she oversees all stages of the digital publishing process. Stephanie has worked in the arts all her life.
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Julia Webb
Julia Webb is a poet, creative writing tutor, artist and editor based in Norwich. She has three poetry collections published by Nine Arches Press: Bird Sisters (2016), Threat (2019) and The Telling (2022).
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Julie-Ann Corrigan
Julie-Ann Corrigan is a best-selling novelist whose literary style also has the commercial edge so necessary for success in today’s competitive markets. She started her writing journey eleven years ago, dipping her toe into the literary water with short stories and magazine articles.
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Voula Tsoflias
Voula Tsoflias is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a corporate psychologist. After completing her MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck in 2005, she completed her debut novel Honor’s Shadow, published by Karnac in 2011 (under her previous name of Voula Grand.)
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Caroline Hogg
Caroline Hogg has more than twenty years’ experience in the publishing industry, working as an inhouse editor at Little, Brown, HarperCollins and Pan Macmillan. At Pan she was Editorial Director for Commercial Women’s Fiction.
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Lindsay Hawdon
Lindsay Hawdon is a former Sunday Times and Telegraph travel columnist, a writer of fiction and an Associate Lecturer at Bath Spa University. Her Sunday Telegraph travel column “An Englishwoman Abroad”, began in 2000 and ran for seven years.
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Susan Watt
Susan is a very experienced editor who loves working collaboratively with authors on non-fiction projects, especially in the broad area of science, psychology and philosophy.
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Stephen Brown
Stephen Brown is a playwright, dramaturg and creative writing tutor. He has given creative feedback to scores of creative writing students and professional writers. He taught playwriting to adults at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, from 2011 to 2019.
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Chetan Mahajan
Chetan Mahajan is an author, blogger, and writing coach. He lives in a village in the Indian Himalayas where he writes full-time, and runs the Himalayan Writing Retreat.
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Rosalie Love
Rosalie is an editor and literary consultant who has the knowledge and expertise to help you perfect your manuscript. Rosalie has a first-class degree in English Literature from King’s College, London. She started her career in the publishing industry in 2015.
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Phil Viner
Phil Viner is a Crime writer and writing mentor. Phil has written for stage, screen and audio in the UK, USA, New Zealand and Russia. He returned home after ten years overseas and founded an independent audiobook publisher.
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Nikki Sheehan
Nikki Sheehan is an author, journalist, mentor, and mother of three teenagers. She has published three MG and YA novels and also writes poetry, and books for younger children. She has been shortlisted for, and won many awards.
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Louise Voss
Over her twenty-year writing career, Louise Voss has had thirteen novels published – seven solo and six co-written with Mark Edwards; a combination of psychological thrillers, police procedurals and contemporary fiction.
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Laura Wilkinson
Laura has published six novels for adults (two under a pseudonym) and numerous short stories. Her contemporary fiction is published by award-winning independent press, Accent. Her latest novel, Skin Deep, has been widely praised.
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Jon Magidsohn
Jon Magidsohn is a writer and musician originally from Toronto. He is the author of the memoir Immortal Highway. His writing has been featured in The Guardian, National Geographic Traveller, Yes & No Magazine, Hippocampus Magazine, Full Grown People and Today’s Parent among others.
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Heidi Williamson
Having been coached or mentored at key stages in her writing life, Heidi understands the enriching experience and significance of both. Her latest poetry collection, The Print Museum (Bloodaxe, 2016), won the 2016 East Anglian Book Award for Poetry and the Book by the Cover Award 2016.
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Glynis Kozma
Glynis Kozma works with two types of clients: those who want to develop their writing around their interests and passions, as writers of non-fiction books or features, and clients who want support with their motivation, time management and confidence.
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Dr. Pauline Kiernan
Dr Pauline Kiernan is an award-winning playwright, commissioned screenwriter and prize-winning short story writer. She is also a Shakespeare scholar and taught English Literature at the University of Oxford for twenty five years.
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Dr Sara Bailey
Dr. Sara Bailey is a writer, consultant and lecturer who has been working with authors and screenwriters for many years. She has a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing from Bangor University and is the author of two novels.
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Elizabeth Archer
Elizabeth is an ICF-accredited coach and national newspaper journalist. She mainly writes about health, wellbeing and women’s rights, and has knack for finding personal case studies to illustrate her stories.
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Vanessa Neuling
Vanessa Neuling is an experienced editor of fiction and memoir. She started her editorial career at Virago/Little,Brown, working with high-profile literary authors, before moving to become a Commissioning Editor at Random House.
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Paul Roberts
Paul Roberts is an experienced and established editor and mentor who specialises in non-fiction. He has been published many times by Routledge, Kogan Page, Wiley and Profile Books (as The Economist).
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Jane Dorner
Jane Dorner has been mentoring people through life-writing and memoir for the last 10 years and before that worked as a publisher’s editor for 30 years. She has authored more than 20 conventionally published books, including for Oxford University Press, the Bloomsbury and Hachette Groups and the British Library.
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Anna Jefferson
Anna is a fiction writer and playwright. She has written for stage and screen since 2005. She has had two novels published with Orion, Winging It and Nailing It and is currently working on her third novel.
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Nikki Moore
Nikki writes as both Nikki Moore (contemporary romance) and Ella Allbright (commercial women’s fiction), primarily for HarperCollins.
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Vitali Vitaliev
Vitali Vitaliev is a UK-based multi-award-winning author, columnist, editor, broadcaster, and a vastly experienced teacher. Starting his career in the former USSR, where he became known as the country’s first investigative journalist.
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