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Dear subscriber,

We've had an exciting month with the Flow festival here at the Free Word centre and we hope that you were able to partake in some of the activities.

We have several new events and interesting opportunities coming up in November and December, so keep an eye out for more updates and check out our news below.

> The Guardian and TLC Competition offers a free place on the next TLC Literary Adventure
> The Literateur/TLC Competition
> TLC Chapter and Verse Industry Day and Recent Success Stories
> Into the Mystic: the extraordinary life and poetry of WB Yeats
> TLC's Big Publishing Debate hits press

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The Guardian and TLC Competition offers a free place on the next TLC Literary Adventure

In association with The Guardian, TLC is delighted to offer the prize of one free place on their next Literary Adventure in March and April 2011. Simply click through to the competition and enter to win on the Guardian Bookshop website. The competition ends 8th November, so don't miss out on your chance to spend a week exploring your narrative voice while sampling the local chorizo.

For those of you who are looking for a winter retreat, our Literary Adventures location now also offers short lets for individual writers at exceptional value, from November to February. Please contact the TLC office for more information.

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The Literateur/TLC Competition

The Literateur/TLC Competition

Thank you to all of you who entered The Literateur/TLC writing competition.The competition attracted hundreds of applications and high quality writing. The shortlist is currently being drawn up and the long and short list will be featured by 1st November on The Literateur site at: www.literateur.com. Check out if you feature on the site, but don't be disheartened if you don't. Join us on 11th November to celebrate the competition, award prizes and explore the future of literature at the Free Word centre. More details about the party can be found at: www.freewordonline.com/events.

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TLC Chapter and Verse Industry Day and Recent Success Stories

Our Chapter & Verse mentoring scheme recently hosted another TLC industry day for the next set of finishing mentees. Will Atkins from Macmillan New Writing, Anna Webber from Curtis Brown Literary Agency and Arzu Tahsin, commissioning editor at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, held a lively panel discussion giving our mentees an insight into what agents and editors are looking for. At the end we even held an energetic round of practice pitches, where the agents and editors gave their honest initial impressions and advice. For more information about our mentoring scheme: www.literaryconsultancy.co.uk/mentoring/.

Our manuscript assessment service continues as ever, as we try to give honest, in-depth, and professional feedback to writers working at all levels. We would like to congratulate Shelley Harris, Alan Clark and Leaf Fielding in particular, for selling their books to Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Arcadia and Serpents' Tail respectively.

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Into the Mystic: the extraordinary life and poetry of WB Yeats

Into the Mystic: the extraordinary life and poetry of WB Yeats

If you liked last year's candle lit atmosphere at our Keats' evening, join us for Into the Mystic: the extraordinary life and poetry of WB Yeats on 10th December, at 7-8:30 pm (drinks available from 6.30pm), in association with Black Tooth Productions. Poetry, laughter and winter-warmth in the middle of the busy season for only £7.50. For more information please see our website. Bookings can be made at: www.freewordonline.com/events/.

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TLC's Big Publishing Debate hits press

TLC's Big Publishing Debate hits press

Our last event at Free Word, TLC's Big Publishing Debate, drew a crowd and created a heated debate over the future of technology and publishing. To learn more about how the evening went, check out our host Robert Mccrum's article in the Observer at: www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/ or the article featured in the Bookseller at: www.thebookseller.com/news/.

We aim to keep abreast of any issues and keep you informed with more debates and news posted on our website. These are difficult and unpredictable times for selling books, but writers are finding outlets as they can and we want to keep our audience aware of their options.

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www.literaryconsultancy.co.uk, or call us on 020 7324 2563.

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