TLC's Self Editing Fiction tutor Jon Barton has a guest piece in The Honest Author, a fantastic Substack by editor and author Phoebe Morgan.
Includes editing tips & special discount on course enrolment. Our Self Editing Fiction course begins April 22nd!
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We are delighted to welcome author, communications consultant and happy writing expert Elise Valmorbida to the TLC Advisory Board. Please help us to welcome Elise! literaryconsultancy.co.uk/about-tlc/ad...
🖋The Literary Consultancy is HIRING for a Writing Services Assistant.
Contract: Fixed-term (12 months)
Hours: Full time* (*or 4 days per week)
Location: Remote
Salary: £26k p/a
Deadline: 9am March 16th
Full job description and details on how to apply!
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40 full and 60 half-fee sponsored entries available through us! Additional free entries are being offered by our sponsors: Spread the Word, Helter Skelter, @cipherpress.bsky.social and @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social
See website to learn how to apply desperateliterature.com/prize
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Falling in Love: An Agent's POV
“I liked it, but didn’t love it.” Have you ever heard that from an agent?
Join us on Thursday, as literary agent Samar Hammam (@rockingbooks) shares what makes an agent truly fall in love with a manuscript—and why.
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Vision Boarding for Writers is tonight, Thu 29 Jan 2026 6-7pm (UK)
All writers are welcome, and its free! Let us help you map out what you want to see on your writing horizons in 2026.
Register on our website, or #BeingAWriter members can head to Circle and join us there.
This April, join TLC and hone your own editorial skills as a writer with our Self Editing for Fiction and Non Fiction Courses. Now open!
Build lifelong skills and bring out your full potential. Learn how to self edit your work with confidence.
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Come map out your vision of yourself and your writing with our popular VISION BOARDING FOR WRITERS webinar - All writers welcome, and it's completely free!
📌Thu 29 Jan 2026
📌6-7pm (UK)
📌Online
Register on our website, or if you're a #BeingAWriter member, just head to Circle and join us there.
2026 PRIZE NOW OPEN 💫
Calling writers of innovative fiction under 2000 words!
Prizes: €2000 / 1000€; residencies
@civitellaitaly & at DL in Madrid; manuscript assessment with @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social; publication; salons; and more...
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Let Being a Writer help you on your writing journey - now one of the top 50 Communities on Circle!
To celebrate, new members can join with a special 50% discount on an Annual Membership using code '26Writer'. Ends next week, Fri 31 Jan
🔽 Head to our membership page to join us today!
It's Write Club this weekend! Join TLC this Sunday 25 Jan, 10am-12.30pm
Come work in a supportive space, set goals and share how you've got on. You can even set goals for the coming month! We'll see you there.
Sign up to our newsletter for the link
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Our Post Feedback Workshop is on tomorrow, Fri 23 Jan 11am-1pm GMT!
Received professional feedback and feel confused working out next steps? Come join us, and come away with a plan of your own to unravel and apply your feedback.
Let us help you build a strategy and level up your writing!
Join us for Write Club this Sunday 25 Jan, 10am-12.30pm.
Free to attend, this is no-pressure quality writing time for you to write in a supportive space alongside your peers. It’s surprising how motivating this can be!
Sign up to our newsletter for the link
▶️ literaryconsultancy.co.uk/newsletter/
Curious about the business of publishing? Join TLC and literary agent Philippa Sitters in The Business of Publishing: An Agent’s POV
📌22 Jan, 7-8.30pm UK time, online
🎟️ £35, or free for #BeingAWriter members
Learn how the industry works, how writers make money, and how agents make money for you.
Being A Writer has been selected as one of the top 50 Communities on Circle for 'Be More Productive'
As a thank you, we are offering new members 50% off Annual Membership with the code 26Writer. Head to our membership page to join us today!
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I've been a member of #BeingAWriter for several years. Wellbeing is crucial to my creativity, and creativity is crucial to my wellbeing. @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social have created community for writers that is safe, supportive and welcoming.
#WritingCommunity
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Ever received professional feedback and felt confused working out next steps?
Our Post Feedback Workshop can help! Join us online, 23 Jan 11am-1pm GMT.
Come with notes, leave with a comprehensive plan to self-edit your writing project. Let us help you build a strategy and level up your writing.
Time is precious, and we want to offer a no-pressure space for writers wanting some quality writing time.
#BeingAWriter hosts Write Club, every last Sunday of the month from 10am to 12.30pm UK time.
Free to attend, sign up to our newsletter for the link
▶️ literaryconsultancy.co.uk/newsletter/
A banner image with a blank notebook and the text Writing workshop: In the beginning, Wednesday 28 January 7pm-8.30pm on Zoom £15/£7 amylordauthor.com
My first writing workshop of 2026 is coming up!
📆Wed 28 Jan
We’ll look at some famous story openings and think about why they might appeal to a reader, and consider some of the common mistakes with writing beginnings, before working on our own stories.
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We are back at our desks and ready to support you on your writing journey!
To celebrate the turning of the year, we are running our popular VISION BOARDING FOR WRITERS webinar. And, it's completely free!
📌29 Jan 2026, 6-7pm (UK)
Register on our website. #BeingAWriter member? Join us via Circle!
WHAT A YEAR IT'S BEEN! We are celebrating our year of writing, here.
Proud to serve the writing community.
Proud to be #ACEsupported.
Proud to be 29 years strong with tens of thousands of TLC Alumni.
Next year, we celebrate our 30th. We'll see you there.
A DIY writing retreat at home can keep the crucial momentum going when life or resources get in the way, but your writing is still calling.
Find out how in our last blog guest written by our fabulous TLC Free Reads partners at @arvonfoundation.bsky.social - the home of #writing retreats.
It can feel impossible to balance the desire to write with the need to address life’s responsibilities: job, family, bills, the laundry basket.
We might all wish to escape to the countryside for a week of total focus on our work-in-progress, but it’s not always realistic. How about a DIY retreat?
You are very welcome, Amelia! Merry Christmas from Aki and Team TLC xx
As we begin to wind down for the year, we are taking a moment to reflect on 2025. To kick off, here are the top 5 most-read TLC Blogs from this year.
Missed them? Don't worry, you can catch up with them all on our website here literaryconsultancy.co.uk/tlc-blog/
#TLCUK #WritingBlog #writetip
A mountain illustration in the background and text that reads: Join The Literary Consultancy on Instagram this December for Story Seeds. Let's write our way to the end of the year together, planting seeds for new stories along the way. Starts Thursday 4 December.
Have you been following along with Story Seeds?
This is our writing prompt series over on Instagram, easing your way to the end of the year, and we're over halfway through!
Head over to follow along or start the series from the beginning #StorySeedsTLC
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✨ Head to our Member Events space in Circle to RSVP
✨ Join us at 5pm GMT for an hour of joyful celebration, together.
We've exciting new events lined up for 2026! More on this coming soon...
Looking for a supportive writing community? Come join us at #BeingAWriter!
As we begin to wind down for the year, we invite our members to join us for a celebration of a year of writing together.
Bring your favourite hot drink, dress up or down - pyjamas or gown - and bring your notebooks for a series of fun, no-pressure festive writing prompts.
Multi-award winning poet and Royal Society of Literature fellow, Joelle Taylor presents an inspiring masterclass; if your poem were a film and you the director, what would you show your audience? 📽️
📅 Weds 10th December, 7-8pm
🖥️ Online (via Zoom)
Book your space here:
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