New Professional Writing Website
Helps Aspiring Writers to Launch Their Career
Profwriting.com offers
writing tips, peer review and one-to-one mentor services.
(PRWEB) -- Literary
agents, TV executives and bestselling authors have given their support
to an innovative new website from MA Professional Writing at University
College Falmouth, which helps aspiring writers to develop their work and
launch a career.
Profwriting.com offers affordable online writing courses, a space to
showcase manuscripts and have them critiqued by peers, and a three-month
mentoring scheme pairing new writers with an expert in their field.
There are masses of insider tips and interviews with successful authors
plus constantly updated news from the worlds of publishing, copywriting
and screenwriting. With a range of short courses and private forums for
pitching ideas and services for those looking for a writing mentor, it?s everything an aspiring writer could
need.
Literary Agent Mark Lucas -- who represents bestselling writers
including Kate Mosse and Andy McNab -- says the site offers new writers
the opportunity to serve a writing apprenticeship before going public
with their work: ?Nowadays if a new writer doesn?t get it right first
time, they are history. What this kind of opportunity offers is the
chance to serve a kind of apprenticeship.?
John Yorke, Controller of Drama Production and New Talent at the BBC,
adds: ?Writing is such a lonely profession and it seems so hard to get a
job; anything that takes away some of the mystery and fear can only be a
good thing.?
The site has been developed by the team behind MA Professional Writing at
University College Falmouth, whose approach to teaching writing is so
successful that graduates get published and work across the writing
industries, running magazines, script editing, reinventing brands such
as Sky and HMV, even penning librettos for operas?
Profwriting.com allows aspiring writers to share that expertise and get
noticed, too, wherever they live and whichever genre they are working
in. Industry scouts are combing the site already and the team have lined
up an impressive roster of experts to offer advice and judge regular
writing competitions. They include bestselling author Patrick Gale,
Simon van Booy, winner of the prestigious Frank O?Connor Award for short
stories, and docudrama producer Hannah Sim.
Associate of the site, Radio 4 scriptwriter and producer Paul Dodgson,
sums it up:
?It will be a great place for scriptwriters to go as well as fiction
writers. I like to think that every genre of writing will find its place
on the site.?
Watch a short film of the profwriting.com launch event here: http://www.profwriting.com/launch
Notes to editors:
The MA Professional Writing at University College Falmouth has built a
strong reputation for giving talented writers the focused skills they
need to make successful careers in many different areas of the media. It
can be studied full-time over one year or part-time by distance
learning over two years. Several alumni have published books, while
others are working as magazine and website editors, freelance features
journalists, scriptwriters, creative copywriters, and in a wide range of
publishing and corporate communications roles.
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