Inside Literature

Routes into performance poetry

Apples and Snakes run performance poetry events, like open mic nights. Photo: Jack Goffe

Apples and Snakes is a leading organisation for performance poetry. They run events around the country, including schools, where they put a poet in a school every day of the year.

Angelina Ballerina illustrator

Children's illustrator and author Helen Craig, known for her 'Angelina Ballerina' drawings, discusses her mid-life move to illustration and learning skills to improve her writing.

The struggle to get published

Keith Gray is an award-winning writer of books for teenagers and the Scottish Book Trust's first Virtual Writer-in-Residence. Keith shared some useful hints for aspiring authors.

Training for published authors

Justin Somper is the author of the best-selling 'Vampirates' books. He spoke about the challenges for published authors, and how Author Profile offers training and support for the business of writing.

Writing historical biographies

Sarah Gristwood is an acclaimed biographer whose books include Arbella: England’s Lost Queen, Bird of Paradise: the Colourful Career of the First Mrs Robinson; and Elizabeth and Leicester.

News & views

New Writing South’s Creative Learning programme places professional writers in schools across the south-east.

Supporting writers in schools

In times of austerity, how can arts organisations respond to the new cultural and educational landscape? Justin Coe looks at how New Writing South is negotiating these changes.

Digital publishing was debated at the London Book Fair.

Writers and publishers

Sophie Rochester, editor of The Literary Platform, looks at the impact of new technology on the delicate publishing ecosystem. Is the role of the publisher being squeezed out?

Career article

Pricing – deciding how much to charge by looking at pricing and value from the customers' point of view.

How much should you charge?

Devising a pricing policy is one of the most important decisions creative entrepreneurs make about their businesses.

Agents have a much more intimate knowledge of what commissioning editors will and won’t go for

Getting a literary agent

In the transaction between writer and publishing house, the hard truth is that the aspiring writer is likely to come off worse unless they have a literary agent in your corner.