Writing conferences: Everyone has a first one! Agents included...

by guest blogger, Gemma Cooper


I read the lovely Jo Wyton's blog about her first conference experience with interest, because her first conference was also my first conference! And we sat across from each other at dinner on the conference Friday night and talked about our virgin conference concerns. I remember her admitting she was nervous about talking to agents and editors (although you would never have guessed). I admitted that as a newer agent, I worried that no one would want to talk to me!

Lost Landscapes - Finding Stories

I recently finished the latest Alan Garner book, Boneland.

To MA or not to MA, that is the question...

by Teri Terry

No, I'm not talking about the big life decision of whether or not to have children! Instead the question is this, one that I get asked a lot when someone finds out I'm doing a creative writing MA: Should you do one? What will you get out of it?

To try to get to the bottom of this, I've enlisted some writing buddies who all have creative writing graduate degrees from different places.