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Insider tip
The biggest key to voice is not worrying about it. Bad style often comes from trying too hard to imitate the style of other writers. Gotham Writers' Workshop: Writing Fiction-
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Events for writers
If you are keen to take part in useful and enjoyable sessions that help you on the road to getting published, then the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook events are just for you.
New events will be added to this page as they are announced.
- How to Get Published. If you are serious about getting published, this one-day conference on Saturday 19 June 2010 is ideal - we will be announcing more conferences soon
- Submitting your manuscript. Our Wednesday evening masterclass will help you submit the best possible manuscript to agents and publishers - this event is now sold out
Watch our taster video from the Writers’ & Artists’ March conference below…
Praise for previous Writers’ & Artists’ events:
Firstly may I thank you and say how useful I found the recent workshop; there is an awful lot of misinformation out there for the aspiring author, either simply out of date or downright misleading and it is absolutely invaluable to have firsthand access to authoritative advice! - David Canning, writing about a recent Submitting your Manuscript masterclass.
‘If you are an aspiring writer and you have never attended any conferences or talks about being published, I would definitely recommend the WAYB peeps.’ - delegate at the How to Get Published conference, March 2010
‘Really enjoyed the day and it got me enthused and fired up all over again.’ - delegate at the How to Get Published conference, March 2010
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