From Our Students

Claire Ackroyd: 'Seed hints of the drama to come from the start of your book'

Claire Ackroyd was a student on our online Writing Your Novel – Six Months course in 2020. We caught up to discuss her debut novel, The Surfacing – out now from Lake Union Publishing.

Claire Ackroyd: 'Seed hints of the drama to come from the start of your book'

10th Jun 2025

Robert Holtom: 'History has so much to teach us about finding liberation'

4th Jun 2025

Rowe Irvin: 'Joining the course gave me permission to take myself seriously as a writer'

3rd Jun 2025

Charlotte Runcie: 'You have to get all the way to the end of the story before you have any idea what you’re doing'

27th May 2025

How to build narrative suspense

22nd May 2025

Jessie Elland: 'There’s something about gothic horror that is so addictive to me'

14th May 2025

How to write authentically as an NHS doctor (without getting struck off)

13th May 2025

K.A. Merson: 'I wanted the reader to participate as much as possible'

6th May 2025

Marisa Linton: 'Write the novel that’s in your heart'

24th Apr 2025

Niamh McAnally: 'Find your tribe, share your voice and scribe on!'

15th Apr 2025

Kelly Mullen: 'I wanted to try a genre that would sustain my interest'