Mentoring & Coaching
Here you'll find people and organisations offering mentoring and coaching services to writers, and details of any upcoming courses or seminars about becoming a mentor or coach. If you would like to advertise your mentoring or coaching event/services on this page please get in touch
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Wed 18 Mar 2026 to Sun 31 Jan 2027
Writing is a solitary craft, but the development of that craft doesn't have to be. If you’re spending days, if not weeks, stuck in a rut with your literary project, having a mentor or developmental editor there to offer expert guidance, advice or to just bounce ideas off has many benefits. Read more...
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Wed 4 Mar 2026 to Wed 31 Mar 2027
Keen to finish or start that novel? What about that screenplay? Those short stories? Don’t know where to start? Don’t know how to start! Maybe you’re afraid to start? Maybe you just need to bounce some ideas off an experienced creative with over thirty years experience? Through mentoring and tutoring I offer writers at every level of their development a comprehensive professional coaching service from conception to completion of their creative work. I also offer a ghost writing service for people who want to record their personal history for their families or a much larger audience. Read more...
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Wed 26 Nov 2025 to Thu 31 Dec 2026
A published novelist with over a decade of creative writing teaching experience, I can help you to:
• Establish a writing routine that suits your lifestyle, with the accountability of regular check ins and measurable progress
• Find innovative and creative ways into your story and characters, helping you discover the most effective ways to craft your narrative
• Grow your project: from notes, to drafts, to finished manuscript.
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Wed 17 Sep 2025 to Thu 31 Dec 2026
Burning out on art, or academia, or both? What if these weren’t failures but portals? Read more...
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Wed 8 Jan 2025 to Wed 31 Dec 2025
Not sure if your work is good? Have you never shown actually your writing to anyone? Do you have a dream of putting out a collection; getting up on stage; organising an event; or even making the transition to Art as your livelihood? I help 'self-doubters' locate and trust their true transmission, and midwife it into the world. Read more...
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Wed 2 Oct 2024 to Wed 31 Dec 2025
Are you looking to publish your work? Are you struggling to find the right words, or to get your ideas into shape? Would your writing benefit from editorial support from an experienced writing tutor? Novelist, creative writing lecturer and literary consultant Dr James Aitcheson can help, offering individually tailored one-to-one mentoring to help you develop your skills and confidence. Read more...
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Tue 1 Oct 2024 to Tue 31 Dec 2024
I offer supportive, professional mentoring geared to developing your writing at whatever point in your process, and in whatever way best suits your needs. I’m an internationally-selling, cross-genre writer and a novel-writing tutor at City Lit. I have a postgraduate certificate in Teaching Creative Writing, and a professional background in documentary production. Read more...
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Wed 24 Jul 2024 to Thu 24 Jul 2025
Do you need help developing your poetry project? Do you want to give your drafts some really dedicated, professional attention? Could your writing benefit from personalised guidance? I personalise my tutoring to you, whether you need help redrafting, developing a project or targeted writing exercises, I provide the direction and inspiration you need.
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Wed 12 Jun 2024 to Tue 31 Dec 2024
Work with a published poet, reviewer and academic writing developer. With twenty years of experience developing writing in universities and communities, I can help you hone the skills you need to see a project through to completion. I’m operating on a pay what you can basis while I have availability, with priority given to writers from backgrounds typically excluded from traditional publishing routes. Read more...
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Wed 12 Jun 2024 to Mon 30 Jun 2025
1:1 bespoke author coaching online with fully qualified coach Julia Forster, with the option to add a week-long writer retreat in the Writers’ Cabin in mid Wales, recently chosen in The Times as one of the top seven writer’s retreats in the UK. Read more...
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Wed 20 Mar 2024 to Wed 31 Dec 2025
One-to-One Online Mentoring with Bloodaxe Poet Dr. Kirsten Norrie
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Wed 21 Feb 2024 to Sun 15 Dec 2024
1-1 individual online mentoring sessions delivered via Zoom. This is an opportunity for you to receive personalised feedback from an experienced writer and creative writing tutor on your work-in-progress. Specialising in fiction – short stories & novels and all forms of creative non-fiction including memoir. Read more...
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Wed 11 Oct 2023 to Wed 31 Dec 2025
I’m a Dramaturg, director, playwright and Artistic Director of Wonderland Productions in Dublin. I believe that playwrighting is a craft that can be taught and I adore mentoring playwrights and am a director and writer myself. I can offer mentoring online or in person in North County Dublin. Read more...
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Wed 20 Sep 2023 to Sun 1 Sep 2024
This is a 12-month programme of mentorship, guidance, and small group support for writers anywhere in the world with a big idea they are ready to get done. Read more...
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Wed 21 Jun 2023 to Tue 31 Dec 2024
Embodied one-to-one creative mentoring sessions for those seeking assistance with: Writing/creative anxiety, Project planning, Project completion, Getting unstuck, Creative energy, Working with shame, anger and grief, Deinstitutionalisation. Read more...
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Wed 21 Jun 2023 to Tue 31 Dec 2024
The wandering is a series of tailored one-to-one mentoring sessions for women/trans/non-binary academics who feel uncomfortably placed within academia and want to think about ways of navigating it differently, or navigating out of it. Our focus will be on our somatic experiences of academia and our feelings within and about it. Read more...
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Thu 1 Jun 2023 to Fri 31 May 2024
Whether you’re trying to get a new writing project off the ground, you’ve got bogged down the middle, you’re not sure if it’s ready to submit, or you’re getting rejections, I can help you. Read more...
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Mon 1 May 2023 to Tue 31 Dec 2024
Rachel Bower runs bespoke online mentoring packages, for people keen to develop their writing and take it to the next level. She has designed a supportive, friendly programme which includes detailed editorial feedback and regular support via Zoom. Rachel is an award-winning poet and fiction writer, with over 10 years’ experience teaching creative writing, providing editorial feedback and working one-to-one with writers. Her work is represented by Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown. Read more...
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Wed 26 Apr 2023 to Tue 31 Dec 2024
From first initial paragraphs to finished submittable manuscripts, I work with writers looking to bring their writing to a professional level. Read more...
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Wed 8 Mar 2023 to Tue 31 Dec 2024
Determined to write that novel or your memoir? I can offer you regular meetings, deadlines, and written feedback on your work in progress to get you to where you need to be. Read more...
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