1-2-1 Manuscript Consultations

Get your manuscript to the next level with advice from the experts.

Has your work ‘got it’? What needs doing? Your shortcut to some no-nonsense help and writing advice.

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Saturday September 15th

Drama Manuscript Consultations with Paul Bourne
In Association with the Menagerie
 
Book a session now and submit up to 2,500 words by Friday September 7th for a half-hour feedback session. Has your work ‘got it’? What needs doing? Your shortcut to some no-nonsense help and writing advice.
 
Promising work from these Manuscript Consultation sessions will be considered for further development and potential showcasing at the Hotbed Festival by Menagerie.
 
Paul Bourne

Freelance Director, Artistic Director of Menagerie and The Hotbed Festival, Paul has directed and produced over fifty professional productions in ten different countries. His work has ranged from productions on the fringe through to major international touring. Highlights include Guignol (Tennessee Williams) in New York and The UK, the world touring production of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (out of Washington DC), and the European Premieres Oleanna and The Secret Garden.
Previously Artistic Director at the Frankfurt Playhouse and Center Stage New York, his focus is on creating and developing new work for the stage, offering appropriate productions that entertain, challenge and inspire. Paul also runs the corporate training arm of menagerie and has delivered training and support for companies at all levels including Liverpool F.C the BBC, EEDA, Standard Life and IOM.

 
Menagerie

The East of England’s leading producer of new drama writing and producers of the Hotbed Festival. They run a playwright development programme as well as producing work for regional and national touring.

The King of Hearts
9:30pm – 5:30/6:00pm

£55 (£45 concessions)
DEAL: Book two sessions (twice the time and twice the word count) for £100

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Sunday October 07th

Poetry Manuscript Consultations with Alan Jenkins
In Association with the Times Literary Supplement

Book a session now and submit up to 2,500 words by Friday September 21st for a half-hour feedback session.

The most promising poems from these Manuscript Consultation sessions will be considered by Alan Jenkins (Deputy Editor & former Poetry Editor) and Mick Imlah (current Poetry Editor) for publication in the Times Literary Supplement.

Alan Jenkins

Has worked at the Times Literary Supplement since 1981, first as Poetry and Fiction Editor then as Deputy Editor. He has been poetry critic on The Observer and The Independent on Sunday, and has taught creative writing and led workshops in London, Paris and the USA (Bread Loaf and Princeton). His books of poetry include In The Hot-House (1988), Greenheart (1990), Harm (1994), which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, The Drift (2000), which was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, and The Little Black Book (2001).  A Short History of Snakes was published in 2001 and a new collection, A Shorter Life, was published by Chatto & Windus in 2005.

The King of Hearts
09:30am – 5:30/6:00pm

£55 (£45 concessions)
DEAL: Book two sessions (twice the time and twice the word count) for £100

THESE SESSIONS ARE SOLD OUT


Saturday November 10th

Prose Consultations with Tiffany Murray
In Association with The Literary Consultancy
 

Book a session now and submit up to 2,500 words by Friday October 26th for a half-hour feedback session.

The most promising pieces of work from these Manuscript Consultation sessions will be considered for a free short-read by The Literary Consultancy, for further feedback and advice (value: £150).

Tiffany Murray

Her novel Happy Accidents was shortlisted for the Wodehouse Everyman Bollinger Prize for Fiction. Her second novel Diamond Star Halo will be published in 2008. The Guardian said, ‘She’s written a winner ... it won’t be long before reviewers start turning to Tiffany Murray’s books when they’re in search of a yardstick.’ Tiffany is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire and teaches at Oxford University.

The King of Hearts
9:30pm – 5:30/6:00pm

£55 (£45 concessions)
DEAL: Book two sessions (twice the time and twice the word count) for £100

BOOKING