Exeter Writers

Are you wondering if this could be the year to start writing that novel, but you're just not sure where to start? Just as a marathon runner doesn't start training by setting off for a 26 mile jog on the first day, writers don't (usually) plunge straight into a 100,000 word novel. They limber up, practise and find out what they're good (and bad) at.

What do you write?   Novels, short stories, articles for magazines - I am a regular contributor to Writing Magazine - and non-fiction guides for writers. When and where do you write?   All the time - at home, on the bus, on trains, early in the morning, late at night, on paper, on screen and in my head.

[ A member of Exeter Writers reflects on how she spent last month. ] Each November, writers all over the world challenge themselves to write fifty thousand words in a month. The more mathematically minded among you will already have done the calculation, but for everyone else, that’s just 1667 words each day, every day, for thirty days.

Exeter writer, Cathie Hartigan will be at St Thomas Library on Tuesday December 1st talking about not only her debut novel, The Secret of the Song but also about her experience as a creative writing teacher, and more recently, as a successful self-publisher. The information is on the poster above. All are welcome, however if you plan to go along it would be helpful to let the library know in advance.

What do you write? I write a mixture of fiction and non-fiction. My debut novel, Gorgito’s Ice Rink , which was published last year, is a quest novel set in post-Soviet Russia.; I am currently working on a three-book series of thrillers set in Africa, Latin America and Russia.

The 2016 Exeter Writers competition is open for entries.

Karen Sullivan, publisher of Orenda Books, is delighted to announce the acquisition of World English Language rights for debut author, Su Bristow's Sealskin , in a deal negotiated with Broo Doherty of DHH Literary Agency.