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PODCAST What’s happening in the world of crime fiction? What are agents looking for? What is a high concept thriller?
Guest author on our online Crime Writing course  Sam Blake answers these questions and more. Listen here

Sega has announced that it will publish Story for Video Games course director, Caroline Marchal‘s first project from her studio Interior Night. The theme of the game remains top secret, but Caroline is committed to developing narrative-driven games and likes it when ‘everyone dies at the end’.

Listen to Therapeutic Writing  and Running Writing Groups Course Director Victoria Field‘s short story Swimming Lessons broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

Following the runaway success of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Jo Cannon’s hotly anticipated second novel Three Things About Elsie is published on 11 January.

We all appreciate the benefits of attending a writing group, but running a successful one can be hard. Have a look at our new course, which holds your hand as you research, plan and launch a new writing group. Read Co-course Director Anne Taylor’s advice on running a workshop

Many congratulations to Professional Writing Academy tutor Emily Barr, whose young adult novel The One Memory of Flora Banks has been nominated for a Carnegie medal 2018 ‘for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.’ Her next novel The Truth and Lies of Ella Black will be published on 11 January.