WriteMentor Blog
Celebrate our success stories, read our latest updates, and get free-to-access writing advice from authors and other industry professionals
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Submission Package Winners
WriteMentor Awards: The Longlists
WriteMentor Summer Programme 2025: Mentor/Mentee Pairings
WriteMentor 2025: Meet the Mentors
Advice from past award winners
Advice from Children’s Category Judge Christabel McKinley
So you’ve signed up to the WM community? What next…
Advice from Picture Book Category Judge Deirdre Power
Advice from Adult Category Judge Maddalena Cavaciuti
Welcome to our Community
Ask an Agent
Ask an Agent: Kesia Lupo, The Bindery Agency
Ask an Agent: Charlotte Colwill, Colwill & Peddle
Ask an agent: Amber Caraveo, Skylark Literary
Ask an agent: Lorna Hemingway of Bell Lomax Moreton
Ask an agent: Chloe Seager of Madeleine Milburn
Ask an agent: Megan Carroll of Watson, Little
Ask an Agent: Joanna Moult of Skylark Literary
Coffee Break Reads
Coffee break reads: Writing query letters
Team WriteMentor share their wellbeing tips
5 tips for fantasy worldbuilding
5 tips for editing your manuscript
Coffee break reads: 4 things to consider when self-publishing
Coffee break reads: How to absorb feedback
Coffee break reads: 5 elements of story structure
Coffee break reads: Writing Young Adult books
Coffee break reads: Tips for writing a synopsis
Coffee break reads: Writing book characters
Free Hub Content
Marcus Sedgwick: Writing through worries
1.11: Competition and Mentoring opportunities for Children’s Writers
1.10 Tips on Writing and Submitting a Children’s Novel by Chloe Seager
1.9 Children’s Agents List
1.8 INTRODUCTION TO CHILDREN’S FICTION: Writing for Younger Readers
1.7 INTRODUCTION TO CHILDREN’S FICTION: Pitching Picture Books
1.6 Introduction to Children’s Fiction: PICTURE BOOK IDEAS
1.5 Introduction to Children’s Fiction: openings and Hooks
1.4 INTRODUCTION TO CHILDREN’S FICTION: Making characters
1.3 INTRODUCTION TO CHILDREN’S FICTION: Getting started
Success Stories
WriteMentor success story: Jesse Kaur
WriteMentor award runner-up signs with agent
WriteMentor Hub success story: Kristina Rahim
“Mentoring is such a great way to get feedback and encouragement”
Success story: Dee Benson, author of ‘Glow Up, Lara Bloom’
“There’s no way I’d be in this position without the help of WriteMentor”
Success story: Jan Dunning, author of Mirror Me
“Keep learning and find some writer friends”
“I owe any successes so far to the team at WriteMentor”
