Let’s write together
The Goldsboro Writing Academy is the place to find the support, insight and tools you need to take your book from first idea to final draft. What makes the GWA extra special is that we combine inspiring writing tutors with experts in the publishing industry including top agents, editors from the big publishing houses, filmmakers, and industry professions. We don’t just want to help you write a book, we want to help you forge a career.
Creative writing courses to get you published
Why choose the Goldsboro Writing Academy
Writing can be a passion, or a therapy session, a best friend, a lifeline, a coffee when you’re desperate for one – it can (and should) be a joy. But it’s also hard work, an 80-100,000 word long-haul trip. You can get easily lost, and we want to offer you a map. At the Academy we are all writers, and we know that we need support and understanding to complete a novel.
We are looking to build a writing community, that will support your ideas, hopes and dreams while sharing the burden of any struggles and disappointments. Our inspiring tutors give you support, insight and the tools you need to develop the confidence to take your book from first idea to final draft. But writing your book is only a part of the journey. If you want your beautifully crafted stories to make it out into the world, you need to learn to ally your inner writer with some level-headed business sense. You need to understand how the publishing industry works – which means how books are sold, how agents select their authors, how writers are marketed, and how their brands are created. That is why we are building this community with Goldsboro Books and the DHH Literary agency.
Our aim is to take you from writer to author - focussing on the writing craft, but also helping you plan your career, with advice from publishing professionals, booksellers and the full resources of the D H H Literary Agency.
The Goldsboro Writing Community
Alongside our weekly sessions we offer Write Here, Write Now sessions to all of our students. These are weekly 90-minute writing sessions, with check-ins and goal setting, to help you find the time and discipline to write.
There are also online sessions with writers from all different genres, My Writing Life talks, where writers share their practice with you. In the past we have had sessions with Elly Griffiths, Josie Loyd, Mark Stay, Zulekhá Afzal, Jo Furniss, Graham Bartlett and others.
Plus, after the end of each course, we have monthly check-ins, to keep your writing practice going. We want to stay connected as a community and support each other not only in writing one book, but forging a career.
That is one of the reasons we highlight writers in conversation with their agents and editors, to model best practice and start to network from day one. We want to write together and succeed together.
Our weekly classes are hybrid, so you can attend on-line or in-person. They are livestreamed, either from Goldsboro Books Brighton, or from Goldsboro Books London, and recorded so you can watch them later.
We want you to be in the class that is right for you, so we always begin with a free consultation before the courses start, in-person or on-line, to see where you are in your creative life and find out more about your writing. Come and write with us.
David Headley says
“I am excited about the Goldsboro Writing Academy where you will receive expert teaching from acclaimed writers and top literary agents. We will help nurture your talent and help you reach your goals.”
How do we work with Goldsboro Books and The DHH Literary Agency?
Goldsboro books is a specialist independent bookseller that has a global footprint, with three of the best subscription services in the world. They also run one of Europe’s biggest crime festivals and run events all year round. They allow us access to some of the publishing world’s top editors, PR and marketing people and book bloggers. It is an invaluable resource.
More information at: https://goldsborobooks.com/
The D H H Literary Agency, which is one of the UK’s most vibrant agencies with many award-winning authors. They have a TV/Film specialist as well as foreign and Intellectual property rights. Their agents will be giving advice and sharing their experience with our students throughout the year, often in tandem with their writers to present case studies of the stages of book production.
For our Finish Your Novel With Us and Submit A Novel With Us, each student will be able to submit their novels to DHH and they will receive full feedback and a 1-1 session with the agent of their choice.
More information at: https://www.dhhliteraryagency.com/
