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TLC’s mentoring programme just keeps on growing. On 9th October, we had 15 mentees attend the second of our biannual industry days. The day is an event exclusively arranged for mentees in TLC’s Chapter and Verse mentoring scheme to discuss the publishing industry with industry specialists and meet the other mentees. TLC was delighted to again offer an intimate panel of experts: Will Atkins (Macmillan New Writing), Arzu Tahsin (Orion) and Anna Webber (United Agents literary agency).
We thoroughly enjoyed getting to meet all the mentees and hearing about their experiences. At the end of the day we even had several mentees do a lively round of practice pitches for our panel of agents and editors. Lots of good energy and inspiration!
“The slush pile is the great awkward albatross of the publishing industry”, writes Aida Edemariam, when she thinks about her five-month internship at a magazine in New York. In her Guardian article titled, “File it in the bin”, Aida explains how most publishers no longer read unsolicited manuscripts – but that that doesn’t stop writers sending them in. Find out why it might be worth your while to properly have your manuscript assessed before submitting it to agents. Aida features TLC prominently in her recent article re slush piles and the publishing industry in the Guardian’s G2.