Click here to read the recent WriteWords interview where Marion Urch, director of Adventures in Fiction discusses the scheme.
Click here to read a comprehensive review of the scheme by former apprentice, Andrew Theophilou.
Click here to read the recent Guardian Unlimited blog – Polish up your prose with the help of a pro.
APPRENTICESHIPS NEWS
The Apprenticeships In Fiction scheme continues to actively support first time writers. In its first five years, it has already resulted in four publications and referred a further eleven writers to literary agents.
Heartfelt congratulations to 2006 apprentice Alison Gangel on the publication of her memoir The Sun Hasn’t Fallen From the Sky - and to 2008 apprentices Ruth Dugdale and Jo Reed. Ruth Dugdall’s second novel is published by Legend Press and Jo Reed has recently followed up her debut novel The Tyranny of the Blood with a second in her Blood Dancer trilogy. (Wild Wolf Press (2011). Other notable successes include Andrew Theophilou, an extract from whose novel was published in Inside Out by Legend Press in 2007.
This year we are pleased to be working with strong contenders in the categories of romantic comedy, young adult fiction and mystery thriller.
When the past just won’t let go
Book-dealer Ben Segal buys an antiquarian diary and discovers that the influence of the diarist, the third Earl of Tiverton, endures beyond the grave. The journal casts doubt on the provenance of a celebrated Holbein and Segal finds himself on a collision course with a gangland supremo.
Jill Amador is an ex-city lawyer who now writes full time.
A boy’s cry for freedom in the jungles of Burma
When the Burma army destroys his village, fifteen-year-old Tooh escapes with his friend Kee into the war-torn jungle. Together, the two boys learn how to trap small animals and forage for roots and leaves. They head towards freedom, but first Tooh must first save his village’s most prized possession.
Paeleen Lao works in Burma.
Eleven days, nine gigs - one tub of Brylcreem
1950s fanatic Rickie Skinner thinks he’s hit the big time roadie-ing for his favourite rock & roll band’s European tour but when the group's star player turns mod, their promoter turns shyster and their audience turns hostile Rickie is forced to start carrying some responsibility along with those amplifiers.
Lawrence Singer is a London based writer and musician.
The Tyranny
of the Blood
Jo Reed
The Sun hasn't fallen
from the Sky
Alison Gangel
Seven Days
Andrew Theophilou
Click here to read Sheila Bugler on On Being An Apprentice
