Drop In Advice Sessions: Northern Lights Writers’ Conference 2024
Available only to Northern Lights Writers Conference ticket holders, these 20 minute advice sessions are an ideal space to discuss your work, creative questions and get career advice from experienced writers and book editors, Adam Farrer, Dr Liz Flanagan, Jazmine Linklater & Fat Roland
About The Advisers
Adam Farrer
Adam is a memoirist, the editor of the creative nonfiction journal The Real Story and the Writer in Residence for Peel Park, Salford. His first book, Cold Fish Soup, won the NorthBound Book Award and was published by Saraband in the UK and the US in 2022. His writing has featured in The Guardian, Lunate, Hinterland, Test Signal (Dead Ink Books/Bloomsbury, 2021) and North Country (Saraband, 2022) and he has performed at a number of festivals, including the Manchester Literature Festival, Ilkley Literature Festival and the Edinburgh Book Festival. He has taught memoir writing at the University of Lancaster and The Garsdale Retreat.
Dr Liz Flanagan
Dr Liz Flanagan is an award-winning children’s author. She teaches Creative Writing in many different settings including schools and universities, and she has previously worked as a book editor.
Jazmine Linklater
A poet & writer, Jazmine’s pamphlet, Figure A Motion, was published in September 2020 by Guillemot Press. Her work can be read in journals including Paratext, Zarf, The Literateur, Stride, and a glimpse of, among others. Recent work has been included in the anthologies Prototype II (Prototype, 2020) and Writing Utopia (Hesterglock Press, 2020). She has been a Reviewer In Residence for Durham Book Festival and currently works for T-Junction
Fat Roland
Fat Roland is a performer and music writer based in Manchester, UK. He's created three solo shows, the latest of which was alternative record shop comedy Seven Inch, which involved over 200 cartoon props and was commissioned by The Lowry Theatre as part of their Developed With artist programme.
He writes short stories and has produced two collections, long sold out. He has been commended in the Manchester Fiction Prize
Please note: The sessions with Adam Farrer & Dr Liz Flanagan are now fully booked.
Slots are available on a first come / first served basis in the following timeslots:
Advice Slots with Monica McSwan: Northern Lights Writers’ Conference 2024
We have a small number of 20 minute advice slots available with literary agent Monica McSwan.
Monica joined Aitken Alexander in 2018 and is now an Associate Agent. She started her career in publishing at Felicity Bryan Associates and Profile Books, and then went on to work in translation rights at United Agents and Aitken Alexander.
She is actively building her own list of authors, which includes the poet Belinda Zhawi; CEO of the dating app Feeld, Ana Kirova; Novara Media journalist Moya Lothian-McLean; and Peter Apps, whose book Show Me The Bodies won the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
In fiction, she represents novelist Nicola Dinan, whose debut work Bellies (Doubleday) was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and optioned by Element Pictures in a television deal after a major auction. She also works with poet, novelist and essayist Aea Varfis-van Warmelo; Divya Maniar; and Lorenzo Mandelli, who has been shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize and the Desperate Literature Prize.
These are at 14:30, 14:55 and 15:15.
Places are available on a first come / first served basis and are reserved for writers with a manuscript in any genre which is complete to its first draft stage.
To apply, please complete the form below and we will be in touch if we are able to offer you a session. We expect demand to exceed supply with these so please be understanding if we can't offer you a space on this occasion.