Join us at 7:30pm at the University of Winchester, Winton Room 5, for talks from our main speaker, author Clare Whitfield, with guest speaker David Keighley.
Talks are free for members of the HWS. Visitor tickets £10 (£2 for students).
Getting noticed in the Slush Pile
Clare will talk about her journey to getting published. It’s a very difficult industry to break into and she will talk about how she secured a two book deal and agent on submission and the process from contract to publishing a debut novel, and what to expect.
Clare Whitfield was born in Morden in 1978 (at the bottom of the Northern line) in Greater London. After university she worked at a publishing company before going on to hold various positions in buying and marketing. She now lives in Hampshire with her family. Her debut novel, People of Abandoned Character, won the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award and was also short listed for the HWA Debut Award, and was also published by Head of Zeus. Her second novel, The Gone and the Forgotten, is out June 9th 2022.
Our guest speaker is David Keighley, and the results of the November ‘Pitch your Novel’ competition will be announced.
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