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SUMMARY:Writing catch-up with author Melissa Welliver
DESCRIPTION:Catch up with author Melissa Welliver and your writing pals while we celebrate the highs and commiserate the lows of publishing – because writing can be lonely\, but it doesn’t need to be! All done remotely over Zoom so you can join in from the comfort of your sofa. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMelissa Welliver writes Young Adult Speculative novels. She works at Writementor and runs the Community Writing Hub for Children’s writers. TO THE DEATH\, described as THE HUNGER GAMES meets 28 YEARS LATER\, is coming out with Hachette in March 2026. She also has two dystopian rom-coms\, My Love Life and the Apocalypse and Soulmates and Other Ways to Die\, published with Chicken House Books. The first in her dark dystopian trilogy\, The Undying Tower\, will be published by UCLan Publishing in August 2024. \n\n\n\nMelissa has completed the acclaimed Curtis Brown Creative Novel Writing Course for children under the tutelage of Catherine Johnson. She has been longlisted for the Bath Novel Award\, the #BNAKids award\, and Mslexia’s Children’s Novel Prize\, and she was shortlisted for both the inaugural Hachette Children’s Novel Award in association with New Writing North\, and the Wells Book for Children competition. She lives in the Northwest of England with her Bassetoodle\, Zelda\, and is represented by Lucy Irvine of Darley Anderson. 
URL:https://write-mentor.com/event/writing-catch-up-with-author-melissa-welliver/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260505T190000
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SUMMARY:Young Adult chat with author Melinda Salisbury
DESCRIPTION:Join bestselling YA author Melinda Salisbury every month for an hour of conversation about all things YA. From general writing advice\, focus on the latest publishing trends and insider info\, how to choose comp titles\, crafting log lines and synopses\, to how to pitch to agents and connecting with fellow authors – we cover it all! Recording for the first 45 minutes for Hub members to catch up on\, the last 15 minutes of each chat is unrecorded\, offering the chance to talk off the record about your publishing and writing questions. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n\n\n\nMelinda Salisbury is the four-time Carnegie nominated and bestselling author of multiple teen and young adult novels\, including the Sin Eater’s Daughter series\, Hold Back the Tide\, and Her Dark Wings\, a Guardian Children’s Book of the Year 2022 and a Reading Agency Book of the Year 2022 pick. Her debut teen novel\, EchoStar\, a tech thriller aimed at 12–14-year-olds\, was published in March 2024 by Barrington Stoke\, with AdelAIDE following in August 2024 and The Foundation publishing in January 2025. \n\n\n\nHer first novel\, The Sin Eater’s Daughter\, was the bestselling UK YA debut novel of 2015\, and collectively her books have been nominated and shortlisted for numerous national and international awards and accolades\, including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize\, the YA Book Prize\, the Branford Boase\, the Edgar Awards\, the 2016 and 2019\, 2021 and 2023 Carnegie medals\, YALSA Best YA 2022\, Eason’s YA Book of the Month\, and more. Her books have been published in sixteen countries to date. \n\n\n\nWhen not writing\, Melinda works as a writing mentor and development editor\, and volunteers at a local independent cinema on the East Sussex Coast. Her agents are Claire Wilson at Rogers\, Coleridge and White Literary Agency\, London\, and Pete Knapp at Park\, Fine and Brower Literary and Media\, New York.
URL:https://write-mentor.com/event/young-adult-chat-with-author-melinda-salisbury/
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author with Kit De Waal
DESCRIPTION:A monthly opportunity to hear our favourite authors talk about their writing journey\, their process\, what they’re currently working on\, and answer your questions! \n\n\n\nSave the date. Cancel your plans. Join us live. Can’t believe we have the force of nature that is Kit De Waal joining us for Meet the Author this April. I can’t tell you how excited I am about this! Kit is such a supportive and vocal talent with a huge heart. She has written for radio\, television\, adults and young adults. But Kit didn’t start writing until her mid-forties. Her debut breakthrough novel\, the heart-breaking My Name is Leon\, was published in 2016 and shortlisted for numerous awards including the Costa first novel award\, and became an international bestseller. In 2022 it was adapted for television by the BBC. Kit donated some of her advance for My Name is Leon to create a scholarship to the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck for low income or other marginalised backgrounds. \n\n\n\nIn 2019 Kit crowdfunded and edited an anthology of working-class memoirs\, Common People\, and was named FutureBook Person of the Year in the same year. Her second novel\, The Trick to Time\, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize and her young adult novel Becoming Dinah was shortlisted for the Carnegie CLIP Award 2020. Her collection of short stories\, Supporting Cast\, was published in 2020. \n\n\n\nKit wrote two episodes of the HBO/Sky series The Third Day (2020)\, and is the founder of her own TV production company\, Portopia Productions\, and the free digital literary festival\, the Big Book Weekend. In 2025\, she was Chair of the Women’s Prize for Fiction – considered the greatest celebration of female creativity in the world. She is a patron of the Bridport Prize\, the Met Film School\, Prisoners Abroad and Writing West Midlands\, as well as an ambassador of Well-being in the Arts\, and Bookbanks\, and a trustee of The Reading Agency. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor and Jean Humphreys Writer in Residence at Leicester University. \n\n\n\nKit’s memoir\, Without Warning and Only Sometimes\, was published in 2022. Her novel Best of Everything as published in April of last year. \n\n\n\nKit is an amazing person to meet in person\, but I can’t Uber her around to you all\, so this is a Meet the Author not to miss!
URL:https://write-mentor.com/event/meet-the-author-with-kit-de-waal/
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SUMMARY:Middle Grade chat with author Vashti Hardy
DESCRIPTION:A monthly session with Hub members to talk about Middle Grade writing craft and writing life in general with host Vashti Hardy – it’s very much a dialogue with flexible topics\, where the Hub community can ask questions about aspects of the craft\, or bounce around any specific story issues in a supportive environment. There’s always fruitful learning! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n\n\n\nVashti Hardy’s breathtaking middle grade fantasies are published across the world in many languages. Wildspark won the Blue Peter Book Award ‘Best Story’ in 2020 and the FCBG Children’s Book Awards and bestseller Brightstormwas shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and Books are My Bag Awards among others. Brightstorm was also selected for Independent Booksellers Book of the Season and both Brightstorm and Wildspark were selected as Primary School Book Club Reads.
URL:https://write-mentor.com/event/middle-grade-chat-with-author-vashti-hardy/
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SUMMARY:Agent Q&A with Sandra Sawicka from Marjaq Scripts
DESCRIPTION:One for the writers of fiction for older readers this month when we speak with Sandra Sawicka\, who joined Marjac Scripts in 2014. Her main interests are genre fiction (SFF\, speculative\, crime\, horror) and YA.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSandra is looking for genre fiction – anything between upper end YA to horror\, through crime\, historical\, SFF. In particular\, she is drawn to atmospheric settings and big hooks\, visual writing and snappy dialogue.  Sandra loves 90s horror\, high school drama novels (even better if paranormal)\, ghost stories\, secret societies\, small town crime novels. She’d love to find a romantasy with a gothic setting and angsty\, complicated romance\, a teen slasher horror or an opulent and mysterious dark academia novel.
URL:https://write-mentor.com/event/agent-qa-with-sandra-sawicka-from-marjaq-scripts/
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SUMMARY:PitchHero with Sandra Sawicka from Marjac Scripts
DESCRIPTION:Please add your pitches to the Pitch Hero Channel on Thursday 21 May. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSandra will visit the Hub on Friday 22 May and ‘heart’ her chosen pitches. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOne for the writers of fiction for older readers this month when Sandra Sawicka joins us to judge Pitch Hero. Sandra joined Marjac Scripts in 2014. Her main interests are genre fiction (SFF\, speculative\, crime\, horror) and YA.Sandra is looking for genre fiction – anything between upper end YA to horror\, through crime\, historical\, SFF. In particular\, she is drawn to atmospheric settings and big hooks\, visual writing and snappy dialogue.  Sandra loves 90s horror\, high school drama novels (even better if paranormal)\, ghost stories\, secret societies\, small town crime novels. She’d love to find a romantasy with a gothic setting and angsty\, complicated romance\, a teen slasher horror or an opulent and mysterious dark academia novel.
URL:https://write-mentor.com/event/pitchhero-with-sandra-sawicka-from-marjac-scripts/
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SUMMARY:Picture book chat with author Claire Helen Welsh
DESCRIPTION:An informal monthly chat for writers at all stages of their picture book writing journey hosted by Clare Helen Welsh. Sessions typically start will a round-up of how the previous month has been\, celebrating highs and offering support for the lows followed by a discussion on a picture book topic. Members can suggest topics and we’ve covered everything from structure\, to rhyming schemes\, query letters and book fairs. The second half of the session is not recorded and may include workshopping members stories. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n\n\n\n\nClare tutors our Advanced Picture Book Course\n\n\n\nClare is a former primary school teacher turned writing tutor and children’s author\, living in South West England with her husband and two children. When Clare isn’t writing stories\, she is inspiring children to write their own. She loves visiting schools\, libraries\, bookshops and festivals in her authormobile\, giving her an outlet for her BIG ideas. Once she helped a class make a giant rice crispy cake that was so wide it wouldn’t fit through the door!\n\n\n\nClare is the founder of Books That Help – an initiative that aims to celebrate picture books and how they can be used therapeutically to navigate life’s up and downs.\n\n\n\nClare is represented by Alice Williams of Alice Williams Literary.\n\n\n\nCLIENTS INCLUDE:Andersen Press\, Harper Collins\, Ladybird\, Little Tiger Press\, Nosy Crow\, Maverick Books\, Pan Macmillan\, Storyhouse Publishing\, Quarto Ltd.\n\n\n\nAWARDS INCLUDE:‘Slime? It’s Not Mine!’ – (Nicola O’Byrne\, Macmillan\, 2022) – winner of the Write Blend Book Awards 2023\, winner of Books For Topics’ Book of the Year (KS1 Best Curriculum Support 2022)‘How Messy!’(Olivier Tallec\, Quarto 2022) – shortlisted for the Write Blend Book Awards 2023‘Wee? It Wasn’t Me!‘ (Nicola O’Byrne\, Macmillan\, 2021) – winner of the LOLLIES Picture Book Award 2023‘Poo! Is That You?’ (Nicola O’Byrne\, Macmillan\, 2020) – winner of The North Gate Book Awards 2022‘Sunshine At Bedtime’ (Sally Sowoel Han\, Storyhouse Book\, 2022) Finalist in the Teach Primary Awards 2002.‘The Tide’ (Ashling Lindsay\, Little Tiger Press\, 2019) – winner of The North Somerset Teacher’s Book Award 2019\, winner of SCBWI-BI Crystal Kite Award 2020\, Honour Award for Illustration at The Children’s Book Awards\, Ireland 2020.‘The Perfect Shelter’ (Asa Gilland\,  Little Tiger 2020) – shortlisted for the InstaBookGrammies 2020.\n\n\n\nClare does hundreds of events with schools\, libraries and festivals: *318 events and counting!*
URL:https://write-mentor.com/event/picture-book-chat-with-author-claire-helen-welsh/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260531T000000
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SUMMARY:Peer Swap
DESCRIPTION:***How it works*** \n\n\n\n– Each month we have a different theme (eg pitches\, agent letters etc). You can see the full schedule on the link below.   \n\n\n\n– Sign up by the last Sunday of the month using the spreadsheet below – you just need your name and genre. Abigail regularly posts reminders and specific deadlines for each month. By RSVP’ing to this event you’ll also get specific event reminders. \n\n\n\n– Abigail will announce partners in a post on the following Tuesday. Where I can I’ll match people by genre but this might not always be possible. \n\n\n\n– You can then contact your partner and arrange the swap.  \n\n\n\n– We suggest setting the end of the month as a deadline for completing your swap\, but it’s up to you and your partner to organise whatever works best for you.
URL:https://write-mentor.com/event/peer-swap/
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