The Writers’ Hour: Daily Writing Sessions

Grab a hot drink and join us for an hour of dedicated writing, each weekday morning.All writers welcome.(Even if you don't call yourself a writer.)PS: It's free!

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Writers' Hour Local: In-Person Writing Sessions

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Parul Bavishi

Parul Bavishi has been an editor for over a decade. In addition to running LWS, she helps thriller, YA and non-fiction writers level up their craft and get published. She writes and edits for the Story Grid. She has worked as an editor and literary scout at Random House, Quercus & Eccles Fisher. She analyses hit TV shows (Killing Eve, You, The Game of Thrones) on the Story Grid Showrunners Podcast.

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Matt Trinetti

Matt Trinetti is a writer, publisher, TEDx speaker, and cofounder of London Writers' Salon. Prior to LWS, Matt spent a decade helping thousands of individuals around the world navigate career changes, start businesses, and build purposeful careers a places like Google, Red Bull, Airbus, Unilever, Escape The City, London Business School, General Assembly, Education First, Travel & Adventure Show, and Creative Mornings.He also writes SEEKING with Matt on Substack.

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Our Vision:

We envision a world where everyone writes.We believe that Creative Health is as important as physical and mental health.And we believe that Writing, especially when done in community, can help us build more meaningful lives, and create a happier, more connected world.

Our Mission:

Our mission is to empower the world to write.We exist to help every human to realize their creative potential through writing.

Why Writing?

Writing is one of the most powerful and easily accessible tools for humans to improve their Creative Health.People who regularly carve out time to write, who are connected with other writers, and who feel that they're living creative lives, are generally healthier, happier people*.

* Studies show the benefit of writing, creativity and social connection:• Writing can be an effective tool for mental health. [RTOR.org]
• Social connection leads to happier, healthier, longer lives [Harvard]
• Lack of social connectedness is linked to loneliness & anxiety [Stanford]
• Doing creative things predicts improvements in well-being [Berkeley]
• 10 studies show the link between creativity and happiness [Tracking Happiness]

What We Do:

We provide a home for writers around the world to grow a writing practice, refine their writing craft, build creative lives, and find creative friends.We do this through daily Writers' Hour writing sessions, Expert Workshops, Courses & Interviews, and a supportive Creative Community.

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✎ In-house writing sessions✎ Writing for mental health & wellbeing✎ Finding your writing voice✎ Creative thinking and writing✎ Storytelling for impact✎ Leading through writing✎ Bespoke workshops & programmes to fit your needs

"Regardless of your previous writing experience, they will give you the confidence and skills to start your first project or get cracking on an old one. Couldn't recommend highly enough!"

– Hannah-Beth, The Little Surprises Company (host for workshops at Google)

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Query Letter & Synopsis Feedback

Get expert feedback on your agent querying letter, submissions package and synopsis.Get concrete advice, comprehensive feedback, and industry-aligned guidance to improve your query letter, and ensure you’re sharing all of the information an agent needs to fall in love with your book.Includes:• Detailed comments and feedback on your agent query letter and/or synopsis.• 30-minute Zoom call upon request (if needed for accessibility reasons.)• Optional add-on: Critique on the manuscript extract that you’re planning to include.

Rates From:• Query Letter Critique: £100• Synopsis Critique: £100• Text Review (up to 5k words): £300

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Manuscript Assessment

Get feedback on your manuscript & advice on next steps.We'll match you with an editor to read through your work and give you an assessment report detailing where the manuscript is in the editorial process and an overview of the type of editorial work your manuscript might need to get publication ready.

Includes:• 2-5 page Manuscript Assessment report• 30-minute call with your editor to review the report• 3 months of LWS Silver Writer Membership

Rates from: £.0127 / word (minimum £400)

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Developmental Edit

Get a full developmental edit on your manuscript.One of our editors will have a detailed read of your entire manuscript, providing feedback on everything from the storytelling to character to plot to language and pacing.

Includes:• Developmental edit of your manuscript with in-line comments.• Detailed report identifying what might need changing and how to move towards publication.• 2 x 45-min follow-up calls with your editor to review feedback and plan next steps.• 3 months of LWS Silver Writer Membership

Rates from: £.027 / word (minimum £500)

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1-on-1 Coaching & Mentoring Packages

Private mentoring with our team of experts.Use mentoring hours for everything from workshopping your story and getting unstuck, to personalised coaching, advice, and accountability to help push you along.

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Hire an Accountability Coach

On a tight writing deadline? Hire a private accountability coach to keep you moving forward and nail your deadlines.Accomplish more than you think is possible. Daily, weekly or monthly coaching via text, voice note or Zoom call with a writing accountability coach. Bespoke and tailored to your needs and ways of working.

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Lou Grosart
Editorial Director
Penguin Random House

Picture Books • Children's • Editing

Louise Grosart has over a decade of experience publishing picture books and working with licensed books for brands like Dreamworks, BBC, Hasbro and Dr Seuss. She is currently an Editorial Director at Penguin Random House where she works on household names such as Peppa Pig and Hey Duggee. She was previously the editor for million-copy selling The Dinosaur that Pooped Christmas, Sarah and Duck, and has worked on hundreds of brands and stand-alone picture books for Penguin Random House and Egmont Publishing.

Niamh Mulvey
Editor, Author

Women's Fiction • Literary Fiction • Short Stories

Niamh Mulvey is an author, editor, writing teacher and coach. She worked for ten years in the UK publishing industry as a publicist and a commissioning editor across children's fiction and adult literary fiction. She has worked with writers of picture books, crime novels, and literary memoir. Books Niamh has edited include Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill, Astroturf by Matthew Sperling and Suddenly While Living by Rosie Driffill.As a writer, Niamh's first book, a short story collection called Hearts and Bones was published by Picador in June 2022, with a novel to follow in 2023. Her fiction has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Banshee and Southword.

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Olivia Bays
Editor, Non-Fiction

Editorial • Non-Fiction • Memoir

Olivia Bays joined Elliott & Thompson in January 2011. One of the company's directors, she also commissions and edits a select number of titles. She is the editor of Huma Qureshi's How We Met: A Memoir of Love and other Misadventures.Elliott & Thompson is a vibrant, fast-growing publishing house at the heart of the creative independent sector. Olivia provides structural editing, copy-editing and proofreading. She also has extensive experience of the whole publishing process from contract negotiation, growing an initial idea to a full outline, sales and marketing copy.

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Brannan Sirratt
Editor, Non-Fiction

Editorial • Non-Fiction • Story Grid

Brannan Sirratt is a Certified Story Grid Editor, line editor, and developmental coach.Brannan believes that story is the quickest and arguably only way that we experience and convey change, making it the most valuable tool in anyone’s arsenal. She has a passion for helping authors who have something big to say but feel tangled up in the nuance of writing. She has helped hundreds of writers tell their stories and get their work published at Scribe and Story Grid.She has written a number of popular articles about unlocking your nonfiction story and the 5-minute non-fiction chapter outline.

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Lindsey Trout Hughes
Essayist & Writing Coach

Essays • Creative Non-Fiction • Submissions & Querying

Lindsey Trout Hughes is a writer and theater maker. Her essays have appeared in Bright Wall/Dark Room, The Rumpus, and Catapult, where she writes Ghost Light, a column about theater, intimacy, and longing. Her essay, Ghost Town Honeymoon, was chosen by Roxane Gay for the Emerging Writers Series in The Audacity. A teacher of creative nonfiction, she is Assistant Books Editor at Barrelhouse.Lindsey specialises in query letter & submissions package editing and coaching, and essay, newsletter and creative non-fiction writing.She also writes a weekly Substack newsletter, Fox In The Dark

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Abigail Mann
Novelist, Comedy Writer

Comedy • Fiction • Synopsis & Querying Coaching

Abigail Mann is a comedy writer living in London and surviving on a diet of three-shot coffee, bourbons, and vegetarian sausage rolls. She was born and brought up in Norfolk, which she says is to blame for the sardonic humour that runs through her novels.Abigail was the runner-up in 2019's Comedy Women in Print award for The Lonely Fajita, her first novel. She is also the author of Sister Surprise and The Wedding Crasher.

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Simran K Sandhu
Editor, YA & Middlegrade

Editorial • YA • Middlegrade • Poetry

Simran Sandhu is an Editor at Macmillan Children’s Books, focusing on Young Adult, Middle Grade Fiction, and Poetry.During her 5 year career at MCB she’s worked on a wide range of genres but for YA her favourites are fantasy and coming-of-age romance, and for MG laugh-out-loud commercial adventures.She specialises in getting characters feeling well rounded, straightening out and weaving together the different threads of your plot and increasing the bingeability of a manuscript.Books she’s worked on include Melt My Heart (shortlisted for ya book prize) by Bethany Rutter, Boy Queen by George Lester, A Dinosaur Ate My Sister (the first selection for the Marcus Rashford Book Club) & A Robot Squashed My Teacher by Pooja Puri, How to Be a Hero books 2 + 3 by Cat Weldon, Dance Like No One’s Watching by Vanessa Jones and These Are the Words (Bookseller book of the month) and SLAM (shortlisted for the CLiPPA) by Nikita Gill.

Richard Roper
Editor, Non-Fiction

Editorial • Non-Fiction • Author

Richard Roper is an experienced non-fiction senior commissioning editor and novelist with a decade of experience in the publishing industry.Having begun life as an editorial assistant at Penguin, he moved to Headline (part of Hachette UK), where he has commissioned and edited a number of Sunday Times bestsellers. Authors he has worked with include comedians James Acaster, Miles Jupp, Katy Wix, and Gary Delaney, Andy Murray; musicians Frank Turner, Dave Davies (The Kinks), Ricky Ross (Deacon Blue); narrative non-fiction writers such as Peter Ross, whose book A Tomb With a View won 2021's Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year.He is the author of Something to Live For (sold in 20 languages, and optioned for TV) and When We Were Young.

Bec Evans
Writing Coach, Author

Productivity • Writing Habits • Non-Fiction

Bec Evans has spent over 20 years working with writers. With a career in publishing, running a writers’ centre for Arvon, and co-founding writing productivity coaching business Prolifiko.She's the author of two books: How to Have a Happy Hustle: The Complete Guide to Making Your Ideas Happen and Written: How to Keep Writing and Build a Habit That Lasts.

Randall Surles
Story Grid Editor & Ghostwriter

Editorial • Thrillers • Non-Fiction

Randall Surles is one of only a small handful of Story Grid Certified Editors in the world. He trained as an editor under Shawn Coyne, who originated the Story Grid method based on his 25 years’ experience in New York publishing.Non-fiction books Randall has edited include Rooftop Leadership, There is Always More to the Story by Jeff Tiegs, Phillip Jernigan's Did I make them Proud?, and co-edited Bec Evans’ The Writers’ Playbook: The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Productive Writing Habit That Lasts. Randall has also worked on fiction titles Nexus Point by K. Pimpinella and I Am Justice by D. P. Watkins. He also ghost writes memoirs for writers at Story Terrace and was the ghostwriter for the NY Times bestseller Pineapple Express. Randall also spent over 20 years in the U.S. Army as a Ranger and Green Beret.

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Charlotte Colwill
Agent, Colwill & Peddle

Non-Fiction • Fiction • Children's

Charlotte Colwell is a literary agent representing a wide range of fiction, children's and non-fiction writers.Charlotte Colwill began her career as a bookseller and book buyer before making the switch to agenting. She has worked at Tibor Jones, for Wilbur Smith's agent and worked editorially on his co-written recent works. She has also worked at Jo Unwin Literary Agency, with Rachel Mann's roster of clients which includes Eliza Clark, Caleb Femi and Jack Meggitt-Phillips.Since 2018 she has run her own literary agency, Colwill & Peddle. She is very editorially minded as an agent and loves to work closely with authors to craft their writing into brilliant, commercially viable books.

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Marti Leimbach
Novelist, Creative Writing Teacher

Creative Writing • YA • Novels

Marti Leimbach is known for her bestsellers, Dying Young, made into a film starring Julia Roberts, Daniel Isn’t Talking, and young adult thriller Dragonfly Girl.Marti teaches on the Masters Programme in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford.

Richard Arcus
Editor, Fiction & Non-Fiction

Editorial • Non-Fiction • Literary Fiction • Ghostwriting

Richard Arcus is an editor and ghostwriter. He has a decade's experience in editorial roles at the UK's largest corporate publisher: Hachette & award-winning independent publisher Quercus and at Janklow & Nesbit Literary Agency.He specialises in non-fiction/memoir, crime/thriller and literary fiction. He has edited Booker-longlisted and Booker-shortlisted authors.Titles he has worked on include Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper, The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler, Europe United by Matt Walker, Too Close to Breathe by Olivia Kiernan and A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley.

James Spackman
Agent, The bks Agency

Non-Fiction • Fiction • Children's

James Spackman's book career, which started glamorously in the postroom of Bloomsbury Publishing, has involved sales and marketing roles there, at John Murray and at Hodder. He was MD of Watkins (then part of Osprey Group) before setting up on his own.He now commissions geeky books about cycling for Profile, under the imprint Pursuit. In 2018 he set up The bks Agency with two ex Hodder colleagues. He coaches publishers and agents in presentation skills as The Book Pitch Doctor and he is also founder of The Spare Room Project (sponsored by Penguin Random House) which finds free accommodation for interns in London.

Anna Wilson
Children's Author, Memoirist

Children & Teen • Fiction • Children's

Anna Wilson has published over 50 books for children and young teens including picture books, short stories, poems, non-fiction and fiction series. Anna was previously a picture book editor at Macmillan Children’s Books and HarperCollins.In 2016 she started her blog Good Grief about mid-life, loss and new beginnings. This eventually led to her memoir A Place for Everything. Anna is also a freelance editor and lecturer, a tutor for the London Lit Lab, the Writer's Block in Cornwall, and the Arvon Foundation.

Eimear Ryan
Novelist & Founder, Banchee Press

Essays • Pitching • Coaching

Eimear Ryan' is the author of a novel, Holding Her Breath (Sandycove 2021), and a memoir, The Grass Ceiling (Sandycove 2023). Other writing has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly and Winter Papers.She is also a co-founder of the literary journal Banshee and its publishing imprint, Banshee Press. She lives in Cork.Eimear has helped writers expand short pieces into longer ones, create essays out of flash pieces, and offer feedback on voice.

Kathryn Koromilas
Writing & Creativity Coach

Mindset • Stoicism • Coaching

Kathryn Koromilas is an author, writing instructor, and mindset and creativity coach. Kathryn has composed everything from novels and poetry to travel guides and opinions. She holds degrees in English literature and education, as well as a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing. She is the author of Palimpsest, published in Australia in 2010.Her short story The Happy House was commissioned by Open Book, published in Unbound, and discussed on the Open Book Unbound podcast. Her personal essay about ageing was commissioned by Metro UK. She is currently writing a novel about loneliness.

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