Preliminary Program of Events

Novel London held workshops and an outreach program with local London writers. This session will look at their journey from inception, inspiration and completion of their first draft.

Kit De Wal

Featuring:

2 Competition entrants -

Followed by a Q&A session.

How do you know that your novel has a strong beginning, middle and end?

In this session, we will look at the structural arc of a novel, focusing on one of the competition winners and the strengths and weakness of the narrative structure.

Self-publishing is now the way forward for many authors: fulltime writers are four times more likely to make a living when they self-publish! It is a quick, relatively cheap process and simple when you know how, but often people hold back because they are not sure how to get started. If this is your worry then this workshop is for you! We will cover how to get from a completed manuscript to holding a published book in your hands, step by step.

Featuring a competition entrant.

Followed by a Q&A session

Have you been avoiding making an author website? Have you struggled with website builders and found them clunky and confusing?

Safeena Chaudhry, novelist and organiser of Novel London, will be taking you through a practical session on how to create a basic author website. As well as haven their synopsis and first chapter peer reviewed, the competition winner will have their profile picture taken, a front cover designed and a 3d mock up of their book.

Featuring: Competition Winner

Followed by a Q&A session.

Join us as we celebrate the work of the competition entrants in an evening of readings. Some of the readings will be from the outreach writing program, workshops and competition shortlist.

Featured authors: TBC

The evening will culminate in the prize giving ceremony.