Five amazing days flew by attending the Escape the Plot Forest Virtual Summit, a writers’ conference organised by Daniel David Wallace, ex-pat writer, editor and teacher of creative writing based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Promoted as a complete guide to the plotting process, “first step to first reader” approach to telling stories, by common agreement of the 3000+ attendees, this far exceeded expectations of a virtual event. …
Another event from craft maestro Daniel David Wallace, Find Your Readers Summit July 24-27 was a four-day online event. Delegates learned to expand writing craft skills, share more work, build an audience, and enhance creativity. Breaking the mold of writing as a solitary experience, this event showcased the ways to connect with other writers and readers. …
Lose yourself in timeless fiction from literary greats, a collection of one hundred stories in unabridged audio from BBC Sounds.
A collection of timeless fiction from the literary greats from Austen to Elliot, Dickens to Maupassant, Conan Doyle to Wharton. …
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BBC Teach and First Story collaborate with contemporary writers to produce a new set of creative writing resources, Inside the Writer’s Mind. A mix of video and document resources, six of the films in the BBC series are accompanied by a free classroom PDF by First Story. …
The fourth annual National Writing Day 2020 takes place on 24 June. In the context of a global pandemic, activities necessarily shift online.
The theme of National Writing Day 2020 is “One day”. The aim of the day is to get us all writing. Write alone, write with others in your household, write with others on Zoom.
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I’m attending QuaranCon 2021, a fantasy convention organized by Virginia McClain and a handful of volunteers who decided to put on a virtual convention that would be free to all involved – a convention you can attend from the safety of your own living room. …
A re-boot for 2020 seems timely. In the current state of lock down, an online spring-clean puts this site as the creative centre.
New sites are up, old projects and sites have been closed down and Everything Express has been put to bed, Proactivity Press has opened for business, while various writing projects have begun or are being dusted off. …
It’s World Book Day 2020 from the charity on a mission to give every child and young person a book of their own. It’s also a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world. …
World Book Day 2020 continues to promote reading for pleasure and sharing stories. The campaign for 2020, focuses around an ambitious plan to Share A Million Stories. Fifteen new £1 books launch for World Book Day 2020. …
“National Writing Day is an annual celebration of writing designed to inspire people across the UK to get writing. Our message is simple: everyone has a story to tell and sharing it can be a source of pleasure and power.” …