Mentoring for writers
Mentoring is a process through which someone with expertise and experience in your field of work chooses to support you in a time of transition.
Mentoring emerged within business management training, but has recently gained popularity in the arts too. Here we are concerned with writing and writers – and because the circumstances in which writers work are rather unusual, the practice of mentoring is rather different from mentoring in any other workplaces. In particular, mentoring for writers does not necessarily include marketing skills or inter-personal management development – it is more likely to be focused on the writing itself.
Mentoring is the subject of a great many of our enquiries from writers, so we have commissioned several resources about it which you can download here.Start with our Mentoring Guide, which is specifically designed for writers who are wondering about metoring but need to know more.