March 2020: Competition Monthly

...(see eligibility list on site). Short story, 2,000 words max (also poetry) Prizes: £75, mentorship, Faber course and consultation with publisher / £50, manuscript assessment, Curtis Brown course / £25,...

Anne Williams

Imogen Martin: Joan Hessayon Award Contender 2024

...of high society Boston at the dawn of the Gilded Age, one woman’s life changes forever the day that a stranger turns up on her doorstep. Facebook Instagram Twitter Website...

Kristina Thornton: Joan Hessayon Award Contender 2024

...cottage. She ends up befriending local widow, Hazel and hot farmer, Sebastian. Can Claire rebuild her life in Baliston? Or is she running away from her problems? Website Instagram X/Twitter...

Meet The RNA Team – Sheila Riley

In honour of the RNA’s 60th Anniversary we’re interviewing some of the many volunteers who work hard behind the scenes to keep the organisation, website and blog running smoothly. Today,...

Lily Joseph: Joan Hessayon Award Contender 2024

...never met. And now, fate is about to change everything. Could true love be just a catastrophe away? Website: Lily Joseph Author Facebook: Lily Joseph Author Twitter: @lilyjowriter Instagram: @lilyjosephwriter...

Meet The Contenders For The Fantasy Romantic Novel Award 2020

...hearing loss, so it’s really nice to be shortlisted – I might have a disability, but I can still write! * Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel, Ruth Hogan, Two Roads Tilly...

December 2020: Competition Monthly

...what you wrote is anything but perfect, a critique may not be for you. You might wonder why anyone would pay for one only to be praised, but it happens....

Kate Thompson: Crossing The Fiction/non-fiction Divide

...her husband, two sons and a geriatric Jack Russell called Twinkle. Website Facebook Twitter   * Lisa Hill writes contemporary romance with a light-hearted tone. What interests her most is...

Karen King: Writing In Different Genres

...books published, two YA novels, six romantic novels and many short stories for women’s magazines. I get the impression she might be a very busy woman. Today she’s here talking...

Nicole Locke: Secrets Of A Highland Warrior

...Legends and The Lochmore Legacy series. She lives in Seattle with her two completely opposite children, who if not for their birth certificates and their red hair, she’d argue they...

New Releases: July 2023

...killed him? Can they give Ludovic justice without changing history? AnneMarie Brear: The Waterfront Lass Historical Saga Boldwood Books Kindle, paperback, audio 6th June 2023 Meg might be poor, but...