Writing, like any form of creativity, is lonely; family and friends don’t understand what you are doing, progress can be slow and the often bizarre world of publishing is like navigating an alien landscape.
Writer’s groups can be embarrassing; at worst cliquey and at best intimidating.
The route to where you want your writing to go is invariably fog filled and you don’t have a map.
And yet, you feel like you have to write.
Through a combination of tutoring and mentoring I give writers in Pembrokeshire the opportunity to discuss their writing, receive impartial and encouraging feedback and educate themselves so their writing goals become clear and they develop a plan on how to achieve those goals.
In non-judgemental one to one sessions we will cover what you need most – this service is totally client led. It may be you have nothing but an idea and need a starting point to work from or it may be that you have a polished manuscript and now want to know how to craft a query letter to a publisher or agent.
Sessions are relaxed but focussed and a two hour session is recommended in the first instance. You don’t need to bring samples of your writing, you may prefer to email something beforehand or you may not yet feel comfortable about sharing your work, either way we will find a way forward together. And there will be cake and tea, lots of tea.
I am the proud recipient of a Literature Wales Bursary for 2017 and I am hugely grateful for the support and recognition that Literature Wales gives the creative arts in our homeland.
As a freelance writer working to a brief I have written everything from storylines for computer games to full-length manuscripts on business start-up. My personal style in creative nonfiction and literary fiction is rich in allusions and tends towards magical realism.
I am represented by Broo Doherty, Director at DHH Literary Agency.
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Currently I am in Vietnam on an island just south of a typhoon. Last week I was at Ty Newydd the creative writing centre for Wales. All inspiring. Here is a piece I wrote for Ty Newydd - www.tynewydd.wales/blog/being-in-safe-hands/
Being in Safe Hands - Canolfan Ysgrifennu Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre
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Karen Phillips attended Tŷ Newydd for our Dazzling Non-Fiction course in October 2017. I wrote this as I watched Jon Gower’s car pull away at the end of our writing course, off into the dimity dawn...Inspirationfrom Vietnam, where trees grow in the sea as typhoon clouds pass overhead. Nature is inspiration.
Hyperfictions, unfixed perspectives & humane medicine & writing: mind-stretching subjects in Britain's most gorgeous residential library - think fireside, think book-filled open wooden stacks. Bliss for bookworms! Hearth Festival, Sat 4th to Sun 5th November, Gladstone's Library, Hawarden, Flintshire, easy access from Chester. www.gladstoneslibrary.org
More inspiration from nature - ex hurricane Ophelia blowing past Pwllderi and Strumble Head
We are recruiting now for a freelance Marketing & Publicity Officer £9000 annually, working for an exciting magazine on activities promoting authors, books & literature. newwelshreview.com/news.php?id=101
Blade Runner was a great film - in all cuts - but Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was so complex and beautiful I'll remember it forever. I think I was 15 when the film came out and the sound and the cinematography blew me away, but it wasn't the same as the book, the book was still better.
That said the new film looks amazing (I'm so shallow - Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford - licks lips) www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/29/blade-runner-2049-review-ryan-gosling-harrison-ford-denis-vi...
A classic by Zola, a housewife’s handbook on promiscuity, Toni Morrison’s Beloved – in Banned Books Week, a look back at works that have been subject to silencing or censorship.
www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/29/write-no-more-10-books-that-were-banned
‘Write no more’: 10 books that were banned
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A classic by Zola, a housewife’s handbook on promiscuity, Toni Morrison’s Beloved – in Banned Books Week, a look back at works that have been subject to silencing or censorshipPembrokeshire is so inspiring!The Milky Way streaking overhead in the skies above Ramsey!
Friday writing prompt - near or far away what beautiful place do you remember well?
