Posts Tagged ‘festival’

Go With the Flow

EventsSeptember 22, 2010

FlowPart of the FLOW festival at the Free Word Centre with The Literary Consultancy & English PEN

As part of the FLOW festival at the Free Word Centre, The Literary Consultancy and English PEN presented Go With The Flow – A Lunchtime Literary Walk.

A walk around literary Clerkenwell that started and ended at Free Word. Writers Jake Arnott, Monique Roffey and Shazea Quraishi and the philosopher Robert Rowland Smith read from their books en route, and encouraged participants to do their own writing  –and, of course, to bring an umbrella too!

10 Reasons to go with the Flow at Free Word

Events | Press & PublicitySeptember 16, 2010

Shreela GhoshDuring the weeks of 14th Sept – 5th Oct, the Free Word Centre in Farringdon presents their second annual festival.  The Free Word Centre is England’s first centre for literature, literary and free expression. Shreela Ghosh, the director of Free Word, outlines ten snazzy points about the growing need and desire for literary festivals in the UK. Click here to read the entire article in the Bookseller.

TLC attends the Melbourne Literary Festival

Events | Press & PublicitySeptember 8, 1999

Melbourne Writers FestivalRebecca Swift was interviewed on Australian radio channel ABC, when TLC attended the Melbourne Literary Festival in 1999.

The radio programme Lingua Franca, hosted by Jill Kitson, seeks advice from TLC for new writers and asks Rebecca about some of her experiences and reasons for starting a company like TLC.
Jill Kitson: Auberon Waugh, Editor of the monthly Literary Review in London, has said, ‘The best advice to anyone wishing to write a novel is “Don’t do it.” The second best advice is “Send it to the Literary Consultancy.” Welcome to Lingua Franca. I’m Jill Kitson. This week: Can I write? Rebecca Swift of The Literary Consultancy on the critical service TLC provides to unpublished writers. Click here to read the entire interview.