APPRENTICESHIPS NEWS

APPRENTICESHIPS 2012

We are pleased to announce the seventh year of the scheme. This year we are offering five placements including one for children’s fiction (ages 11-16). This year’s selection panel includes Ben Mason from the new and nimble Fox Mason Literary Agency. 

In its first six years, the scheme had already resulted in five publications and referred a further thirteen writers to literary agents. Apprentices regularly secure funding from a range of sources including Arts Council England.

In addition to the five key placements, we offer a preliminary stage to selected runners-up in the form of Apprenticeship Appraisals, an optional stage one package and our annual workshop.

We offer an award of £525.00 to each apprenticeship. (A subsidy of over 15%)

Thank you for your continuing interest and support.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 31st May 2012

Induction: 12th September 2012

SUCCESS STORIES

Heartfelt congratulations to Sheila Bugler who has just signed a two book deal with Brandon, the leading Irish imprint with a great reputation for crime fiction, and to Sandra Greaves, whose novel Gabbleratchet has been anthologized in Undiscovered Voices 2012, a showcase for outstanding talent in YA and children’s fiction. Other major successes include Alison Gangel with her memoir The Sun Hasn’t Fallen From the Sky (Bloomsbury 2011), Ruth Dugdall, whose second novel The Sacrificial Man is published by Legend Press, Jo Reed who recently followed up her debut novel The Tyranny of the Blood with a second in her Blood Dancer trilogy (Wild Wolf Press 2011), and Andrew Theophilou who was published in Inside Out by Legend Press in 2007.

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