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March 2022

  • Our Charity Literary Event for War Child

February 2022

  • Inside Story – The Writing Coach Membership

January 2022

  • Michelle Graham Taylor and The Ghost Of A Lie

December 2021

  • The Writing Life of PD Viner, Crime Writer and Crime Writing Mentor

November 2021

  • An interview with author Bryony Pearce

August 2021

  • How The Writing Coach Helped Me Build a Writing Career

December 2020

  • Celebrating our MA Creative Writing success stories at UEA

October 2020

  • An interview with Antony Johnston, author of 'The Organised Writer'

February 2020

  • The Silence of the Archives - A guest post by Pete Langman

November 2019

  • Supporting The Creative Future Writers' Award

July 2019

  • Creativity and Leadership – A Guest Post by Trevor Waldock

February 2019

  • Teaching Writing: Editing vs. Coaching

August 2018

  • Routes to Publication - our Google Academy event
  • Carolyn Kirby's compelling debut: The Conviction of Cora Burns

July 2018

  • Our Writers' Community: Group outings
  • Routes to Publication: our Event at Google Academy

May 2018

  • Blog Tour: 'Bluethroat Morning'
  • Lucy Kaufman's Play - Eleanor Marx: The Jewess of Jews Walk

March 2018

  • Literary Thriller 'Bluethroat Morning' - Cover Reveal
  • Sarah Dickinson, author of 'Plenty Mango' speaks with Jacqui Lofthouse (Part Two)

February 2018

  • Sarah Dickinson, author of 'Plenty Mango' speaks with Jacqui Lofthouse (Part One)

January 2018

  • 'Isn't it terrible about Chechnya': Jane Austen - the wartime writer

November 2017

  • Carolyn Kirby triumphs in two first novel awards

September 2017

  • An interview with novelist Stuart Warner
  • Writing in the Dark - by Miranda Gold

June 2017

  • Words Away Salon: 'Be Your Own Writing Coach'
  • Literary Fiction - a panel discussion at Waterstones

May 2017

  • Our Founder at The People's Book Prize
  • Life imitating Art: The People's Book Prize

March 2017

  • Hidden Stories: the story behind the story
  • The Importance of Reading: 'Reading as Alchemy'

November 2016

  • How the Bridport Prize kick-started my novel
  • Non-fiction and its possibilities: a guest post by Glynis Kozma

July 2016

  • Branding Workshop for Content Creation at The Shard, London

April 2016

  • Our new publishing imprint Nightingale Editions and a visit from JK Rowling
  • Nan Bovington longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize

November 2015

  • An interview with playwright Stephen Brown
  • Networking for writers and why it matters

September 2015

  • Memoir writing and memory: fact versus truth
  • Inspiration from the Charroux Literary Festival

June 2015

  • Join me at the Charroux Festival this summer
  • The beautiful coincidence of Paradise Road Project

March 2015

  • Literary Friendship: Louise Doughty and Jacqui Lofthouse
  • Common Mistakes in Writing Fiction and how to avoid them

February 2015

  • On taking yourself seriously as a writer
  • Looking for a Literary Consultant? Our new team is here.
  • The Observer - a writing prompt

January 2015

  • Modigliani's muse: the evolution of a novel
  • Monday morning writing prompt: the muddy boots
  • Alice Jolly's experience of working with Unbound, a 'crowd-funded' publisher
  • Annual reading review, part one: looking back on a reading year as an NQT

November 2014

  • Win two sessions on the Full Mentor Programme

October 2014

  • The book launch for 'Welcome to Sharonville' - Jacqui Lofthouse interviews Dr. Sharon Zink

August 2014

  • Publishing success story - from the 'virtual drawer' to glitzy launch party

July 2014

  • Blogging tips and sparkly ears: 10 things I learned from Blogcademy, London

February 2013

  • Recent publications by 'Writing Coach' clients

August 2012

  • The Mslexia Children's Novel Competition

May 2012

  • A fresh direction for The Writing Coach
  • On 'playing a ten' (or what an acting class taught me about confidence for writers)

January 2012

  • Time management for writers: ten ways of finding time to write when you have no time
  • Annual Review of 2011 (Part One: What went well)

December 2011

  • How a single image can lead to an entire novel: on listening to author Ian Beck

November 2011

  • A view on NaNoWriMo (could you and should you write a novel in a month?)

September 2011

  • Ten simple steps to make editing a novel easier and more fun

July 2011

  • An artist's date in nature

June 2011

  • My favourite productivity tips for writers

May 2011

  • The road to completion

April 2011

  • The lure of the independent bookshop
  • On visiting the London Book Fair 2011
  • Ten reasons why you can afford to be confident as a writer (or "having a chat with your inner superhero")
  • Leaf Writers' Magazine

March 2011

  • Creating Convincing Characters (The Archive Series)
  • An Interview with Voula Grand, Author of Honor's Shadow
  • Welcome to the Writing Coach Blog

May 2010

  • On Uncertainty (or the Van Gogh School of writing fiction)

June 2006

  • Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis - On Creativity and Despair

June 2005

  • Wedding Rondeau: musing on a serious literary life

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Jacqui Lofthouse

The Writing Coach was founded in 2005 by the novelist Jacqui Lofthouse. An international mentoring and development organisation for writers, it is also an online home for writers, somewhere you can find advice, information, motivation and most of all encouragement for your writing work ... read more

The Modigliani Girl

Anna Bright never wanted to write a novel. At least, that’s what she tells herself. But a chance encounter with a famous novelist and a surprise gift of an art book cut a chink in Anna’s resolve. The short, tragic life of Modigliani’s mistress, Jeanne Hébuterne, becomes an obsession and before she knows it, she has enrolled on a creative writing course, is writing about a fictional Jeanne and mixing with the literati.

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  • Our Charity Literary Event for War Child
  • Inside Story – The Writing Coach Membership
  • Michelle Graham Taylor and The Ghost Of A Lie
  • The Writing Life of PD Viner, Crime Writer and Crime Writing Mentor
  • An interview with author Bryony Pearce

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✨Join us this Saturday for our Workshop "Writer' ✨Join us this Saturday for our Workshop "Writer's Devotion"✨

If you are a writer who desires to connect deeply to your writing work – to understand your motivation and utilise it so that you are truly drawn to your writing desk – our online workshop on Saturday 7th May “Writer’s Devotion” is perfect for you. 📚

🖋📖 This workshop will support you as you commit to your writing in an entirely new way. In our time together, we’ll examine our individual relationship with our writing work and we’ll consider how we can become more connected with our writing, so that we write with a sense of ease and flow. 

✨ The first workshop ‘Writer’s Devotion’ covers:
• The full blueprint relating to Mindset as a writer
• How to leverage your unique writing purpose
• Developing deep self-belief that will sustain your practice
• Practical steps to enable you to commit to your writing
• How to develop a writing ritual
• Knowing we are working on the ‘right’ project
• How to use these tools to become a serious writer
• Resilience as a writer
• Commitment to your craft
• Q & A with Jacqui Lofthouse

I would love to meet you there! You can discover more about our follow up workshops on Writer's Alchemy and Writer's Connection here too... ✨

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#writingcoach #writingworkshop #amwriting #writinglife #writinghabits #writingritual #writersofinstagram
We love these sketches of our ‘Fragile Borders,F We love these sketches of our ‘Fragile Borders,Fragile Bodies’ event last Friday by our Founder @jacquilofthouse’s husband, live-illustrator @davidlewiscartoons.

It was such a fascinating evening with Miranda Gold, @alicejolly_  @ana.sefer and #FranLock @sunseekerspoetry raising £780 which we will be donating to @warchilduk 

#literature #liveillustration #visualiser #graphicfacilitation #warchild #literaryevents #tintabernacle
We’re thrilled to welcome @annasianjeffersonauth We’re thrilled to welcome @annasianjeffersonauthor to our team - she is a qualified coach, published author, playwright and strategic thinker. Who will be her first client via us, I wonder? 

 “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. She is the founder and co-director of Broken Leg Theatre and has written and toured five plays. Anna is an experienced workshop leader and facilitator. She is Co-Director of Writing Around the Kids. The project enables mothers of young children to write creatively, working in partnership with regional museums and a network of published female authors.

As a trained Life Coach with Relation Dynamics 1st, Anna incorporates coaching into her practice. Anna works part-time as Theatre Relationship Manager at Arts Council England and lives in Brighton with her husband and two children.”

#lifecoaching #writing #writingcommunity #writerssupportingwriters #authorssupportingauthors #writingcoach
Posted @withregram • @ana.sefer Thanks so much t Posted @withregram • @ana.sefer Thanks so much to everyone who came to Fragile Borders, Fragile Bodies on Friday, which raised £780 for #warchild Illuminating discussion and great readings from @alicejolly_  Fran Lock, Miranda Gold and myself :) .. beautifully chaired by @jacquilofthouse 
And what a wonderful venue The Tin Tabernacle Church in Kilburn is!
We are really looking forward to tomorrow's event We are really looking forward to tomorrow's event 'Fragile Borders, Fragile Bodies', at The Tin Tabernacle church in London at 6.30pm. 

This week we wanted to introduce our guest speakers who will be joining us tomorrow, and today we'd like to introduce Ana Seferović.

Ana is a poet and writer from Belgrade, interested in the relationship between systems and the individual.  She is especially fascinated by outcasts, particularly the outcast in each and every one of us, because an outcast is where either a system or an individual (or both) are breaking. She has co-authored a radio show and art platform PornoPop, examining sex and body as a battlefield of politics, art, literature and culture.

Find out more about Ana, Fragile Borders, Fragile Bodies and book tickets via the link in our bio. All proceeds will be donated to the charity War Child @warchilduk

In addition, the Laura Kinsella Foundation has generously agreed to double any donations we receive up to a limit of £300.

#RefugeeCrisis #UkraineConflict
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