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Our Getting Published Day at Asia House

July 5, 2023

By Jacqueline Smith, Client Services Manager at The Writing Coach The Perfect Venue On a beautiful spring day in May, we were delighted to host our first Getting Published Day in London. The choice of venue was a top priority, as we wanted to create an enjoyable day for our attendees, many of whom are …

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Elizabeth Cox, Author

Transforming my Writing with The Writing Coach Membership

February 10, 2023

A guest post by Elizabeth Cox, member of The Literary Community. We asked Elizabeth Cox, one of Jacqui Lofthouse’s personal clients and a member of our Membership Group The Literary Community to share her experience of her time in our community.    Recognising I Needed Help I joined Inside Story – now known as The …

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Inside Story – The Writing Coach Membership

February 11, 2022

A guest post by Jacqueline Smith, member of Inside Story. My first experience of  The Writing Coach was through joining Inside Story, but I’d first met Jacqui many years ago when she was teaching creative writing courses at Richmond College. Fast forward twenty odd years of life, work and family to February 2021 and the …

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How The Writing Coach Helped Me Build a Writing Career

August 10, 2021

Discover how The Writing Coach turned my distant dreams of a writing business into an exciting new reality through coaching, writing feedback, and support.

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Celebrating our MA Creative Writing success stories at UEA

December 11, 2020

We are delighted to announce that three of our current and former clients will soon be finishing the first term of their Creative Writing MAs at the University of East Anglia (UEA). We are particularly proud this year to witness the success of these clients, two of whom gained places on the MA Creative Writing: …

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Words Away Salon: ‘Be Your Own Writing Coach’

June 25, 2017

The Words Away salon is on Monday, July 3, 2017 7:30pm – 9:30pm at The Tea House Theatre, Vauxhall Do you need some inspiration and motivation tips to get going and keep going this summer? What’s stopping you from finishing that book? Do you start but never quite finish? Would you like to be more …

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How the Bridport Prize kick-started my novel

November 21, 2016

Carolyn Kirby, a former Writing Coach client, reached the short-list of this year’s Bridport Prize award for a first novel. In this guest post, Carolyn writes about her experience of entering the competition. A new category in the Bridport Prize Like many new writers I’d heard of the Bridport Prize. It is well known around the …

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Non-fiction and its possibilities: a guest post by Glynis Kozma

November 7, 2016

Writing non-fiction can be every bit as creative as writing fiction and equally as satisfying. Our perceptions on non-fiction may be narrow and perhaps need challenging in order to be aware of how there are possibilities for our own creativity. Non-fiction includes everything from the instructional ‘how to’ guides – whether that’s cookery, gardening, restoring …

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Branding Workshop for Content Creation at The Shard, London

July 2, 2016

I had the great pleasure recently to lead a branding workshop for content creation at The Shard, London. What a wonderful venue for a workshop this was, with a glorious panoramic view of London. This short video put together by Tom Hewitson gives a flavour of the event. The workshop for Tom’s Content Lab was …

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Join me at the Charroux Festival this summer

June 25, 2015

This summer, I’m delighted to have been invited to appear at the first Charroux Literary Festival in France – and I’d love to see you there! The Festival, a bilingual literary festival,will take place in the medieval town of Charroux in the Poitou-Charentes region of South West France from Thursday 27th to Saturday 29th August – the August Bank …

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Jacqui Lofthouse at Dartington

On taking yourself seriously as a writer

February 10, 2015

In those heady days, back in 1995, when I achieved my dream and had my first novel The Temple of Hymen published by Penguin, it was easy to take myself seriously as a writer. How could I not, when I had my name on an orange spine next to that iconic logo? Here I am, shortly after publication, onstage …

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Looking for a Literary Consultant? Our new team is here.

February 4, 2015

If you are looking for a literary consultant, I know you’ll be delighted to read about my new team of literary consultants, here at The Writing Coach. The demand for my Literary Consultancy service has grown and I have now formed a team of brilliant mentors and consultants to work with me, to help you create books …

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