Would you like me to mentor you?

**Please note, the deadline for apprenticeship applications has now passed and the mentees have been chosen, but WordFactory will be looking for two new apprentices next year**

I’m going to be mentoring one short story writer over six months as part of the WordFactory apprenticeship scheme.

We’ll meet or chat on the phone/over email every month, and I’ll offer feedback on your work, and give whatever career guidance I can.

As well as spending time with me, or with the other WordFactory mentor, the brilliant Nicholas Royle, you’ll get:

• free entry to all WordFactory events and seminars

• a £250 Waterstones voucher

• one-to-one career consultations from literary agent Carrie Kania

• access to workshops from Spread the Word in London

• to read your work at one of the WordFactory events at Waterstones Piccadilly (if you’re anything like I was when I first started out, the idea of this may well terrify you enough to not apply, but trust me, after successfully overcoming my own anxieties about reading aloud I can help you get comfortable on a stage too).

In exchange, you’ll become part of the WordFactory family and get involved with the monthly events (and a very lovely family it is too).

The submission deadline is 1 September 2014.

Full details on how to apply are on the WordFactory Apprenticeship page. 

When I started out writing and struggled with rejections for so many years, I would have loved an opportunity like this, so I’m really excited to be able to help another writer take a step or two closer to their writing dream, whatever that may be.