ShirleyLWC, Author at London Writers Centre

Get Writing! National Writing Day 2026

Posted on June 24, 2026June 30, 2026 by ShirleyLWC

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March 25th, 2025

Deptford Literature Festival At Home 2025

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March 13th, 2024

Deptford Literature Festival At Home 2024

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March 13th, 2023

Deptford Literature Festival At Home 2023

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January 12th, 2022

Top tips on writing your short story by Natasha Brown

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January 12th, 2022

Top tips on writing a short story by Caleb Azumah Nelson

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January 12th, 2022

Top tips on writing your short story by Jarred McGinnis

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February 4th, 2021

Writing and reading activities for children and young people

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August 13th, 2020

Writing a Picture Book: i. Getting Started

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October 12th, 2020

Sharlene Teo shares her top tips on Writing “Voice”

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December 9th, 2020

A Pocket Guide to Writing Dialogue

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January 13th, 2021

A Pocket Guide to Creating Authenticity in Your Writing

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November 17th, 2020

A Pocket Guide To Writing (Good) Sex

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March 12th, 2020

A Pocket Guide to Using Memory in Fiction Writing

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June 29th, 2020

A Pocket Guide to Writing Through Trauma

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July 7th, 2020

A Pocket Guide to Nature Writing

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September 18th, 2020

A Pocket Guide to Writing with a Newborn

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January 16th, 2020

A Pocket Guide to Writing a Synopsis

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November 9th, 2020

A Pocket Guide to getting to the end of your manuscript

London Writers Centre and Eve White Literary Agency Announce Survey Findings

Posted on April 22, 2026April 22, 2026 by ShirleyLWC

The route to publication needs to be more transparent and less mystifying to the new or emerging writer in order for the literary market to become less elitist and more inclusive. The stories of ordinary people who may have had extraordinary lives, memoirs from more marginalised groups are all needed in order to not only show different experiences and perspectives but also can encourage other minority groups to share their experiences too. And consequently, this makes for a more diverse, more illuminating, richer literary market – and readership.

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Announcing Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards 2026 Judges

Posted on February 25, 2026February 25, 2026 by ShirleyLWC

In a time when we need art more than ever, this collaboration between London Writers Centre and Wellcome Collection enables our most talented emerging writers to evoke different perspectives and insights about our society. The programme is immersive, comprehensive and truly the best ladder you could give to any writer and I’mdeeply proud to be a part of supporting new writing from the margins and to support London Writers Centre once again.

Kerry Hudson, 2026 judge

I’m very excited to be judging this year’s Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards. We need more underrepresented voices shaping narratives on health, but too many currently face barriers to access in the publishing industry. I’m keen to read interventions that feel unexpected, either in their subject, their tone or their approach to storytelling.

Micha Frazer-Carroll, 2026 judge

I’m hugely excited to be working with the Wellcome Collection and London Writers Centre teams on this prize – expert-led non-fiction that helps us all to understand the lives we lead and the bodies we inhabit has never been more important and I’m looking forward to discovering some essential new voices and making sure they’re heard.

Eli Keren, 2026 judge

We’re excited to run this programme again this year, to support a new cohort of writers with a big idea on health and human being. Particularly following the successes of 2025 – with all six awardees securing offers of representation in the autumn, and Masud Husain’s brilliant win of the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize with Our Brains, Our Selves. We can’t wait to be challenged, surprised and inspired by the entries that come in.

Fran Barrie, Publisher at Wellcome Collection