30.09.2024
The Mentoring Scheme is Writing East Midlands’ annual programme aimed at emerging writers who are looking to spend dedicated time on their craft and career development with a matched, professional writing mentor, who will help them focus on a particular project.
The programme will match 8 writers with experienced writing mentors, and at least 3 of the cohort will be from a diverse background, therefore they will particularly welcome applicants who come from an under-represented background or community, declared in their own words (read more on this below).
Please note – the scheme is open to everybody in the East Midlands. At least 3 of the 8 places will be awarded to writers from a diverse background.
Writing East Midlands can award 8 writers a year the following support:
* 5 Mentoring sessions with an established professional writer matched to them in a writing discipline similar to their own
* 2 Coaching sessions with Writing East Midlands
* 3 Peer Network meetings
* 3 workshop or masterclasses on craft and career development, to be programmed and tailored to the Momentum cohort’s needs and interests
* Free Society of Authors Membership for the year
* Free attendance to our bi annual Writers Conference
The programme will last up to a year, with the mentoring sessions to be taken at a pace which suit you and your matched mentor. Mentoring is aimed at writers who have reached a critical point, enabling them to step beyond the private process of writing and onto new levels. Ultimately, the scheme aims to help writers to develop their work to a publishable standard.
The Mentoring Scheme is aimed at writers who already have a the majority of a full draft or a full draft of a manuscript and poets who are looking at putting together their collection.
Find out more here: https://writingeastmidlands.co.uk/for-writers/mentoring-2/
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