We receive a lot of enquiries about mentoring, so we commissioned experienced mentors Sara Maitland and Martin Goodman to write an introductory guide.  It's specifically for creative writers and we hope it answers many of your questions. 

Presented as a series of Questions and Answers, this 30 page guide covers what mentoring is and isn’t, the practicalities of finding a mentor and how to get the most out of the mentoring process. There is also a sample mentoring agreement.  read more...  

Mentoring: a guide for creative writers draws on research for the accompanying New Writing North publication The Write Guide: Mentoring, which provides a single resource on mentoring for prospective mentors, emerging writers and arts development professionals, for the first time (see www.newwritingnorth.com/mentoring for further details.)

We kick off our growing bank of resources in this section with a fascinating article by writer and literature development specialist Anne Caldwell in which she reflects on the mentoring journey she took last year when she participated in two very different styles of mentoring for her poetry.  

Author: Field, Victoria and Stoner, Angela

Find out all about creative co-mentoring and how it can support your practice as a writer. The fifth in the literaturetraining ‘Briefings’ series.

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