Want some professional feedback on your writing? Writing Yorkshire may be able to help through our Free Reads scheme (in partnership with The Literary Consultancy and Arts Council England).

Writing Yorkshire is delighted to announce that we will again be offering free feedback on manuscripts this autumn, through our participation in The Literary Consultancy's Free Reads scheme. The scheme allows writers from our region to receive expert feedback from a team of freelance readers who are selected by The Literary Consultancy for their experience as writers and/or readers for publishers and literary agents. 

To be eligible to apply for a Free Read, you need to be over 16, living in Yorkshire and on a low income.  Unfortunately, writers who are currently on creative writing programmes (e.g. the MA in Creative Writing at SHU) are not eligible to apply.

The process is simple. Initially, we will ask for a sample of your writing and a paragraph which gives us more information about you as a writer, what you hope to get out of the scheme and why you think you qualify to take part. The sample of writing should be no more than 5 pages long and, in the case of novels, there should also be a synopsis attached.

We are open to submissions until 30th November 2014. Writing Yorkshire will assess your work against the criteria set by TLC and notify you if you have been selected or not before Christmas. Successful work will be sent off to the readers in the New Year and feedback should be received by the end of February.

If you are interested in applying or would like to know more about the scheme, please contact Beverley on beverley@writingyorkshire.org