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Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook online
For over 100 years the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook has existed to help writers make it into print and to develop their career, and give artists advice on how to exhibit or publish work.
The listings are online, so you can search the full directory of publishers, literary agents, newspapers and magazines, picture libraries, commercial art studios and much, much more.
Writersandartists.co.uk also features blog posts, news and advice, selected articles from the yearbook and extracts from other writing books.
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Featured content:
- “I write because otherwise the stories in my head would drive me mad” – read the interview with bestselling author Jane Green
- Technical glitch with the waiting list for the How to Get Published conference: do you need to email again? »
- WIN £500 cash and a place on an Arvon writing course. Short Story Competition 2010 – there’s still time to enter!
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Want to know more? Remember, there’s much more on offer in the print version of the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook, the No. 1 Bestseller. Copies are available at a discounted price from the online bookshop.
The Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook contains a wealth of practical advice and information as well as thousands of media contacts. Features of the 2010 edition include:
- Introduction by Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan and foreword by Julie Myerson
- New articles by literary agent Catherine Clarke, Guardian features writer Merope Mills, digital media experts Mathew F. Riley and Simon Appleby, bookselling specialist David Taylor and literary consultant Rebecca Swift
- New contacts and updated listings for book publishers and packagers, literary and art agents, magazines, TV and radio, prizes and festivals, and much more
Buy your copy of the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook from our online bookshop today.
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Buy the 2010 Yearbook
The Writers' & Artists' Yearbook is available at a discounted price from our online bookshop. Get all the info, contacts and advice you could need.On camera: Jon McGregor
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On camera: Julie Myerson
The novelist and journalist Julie Myerson on how she got that all-important first publishing deal. Click here to view our video exclusive »