The Writers' Workshop
What we do
The Writers' Workshop is the world's leading consultancy for first time writers. We offer:
• Tough, honest editorial advice (more)
• Help with literary agents, where work is strong enough (more)
• Writing and self-editing courses (more)
• The annual Festival of Writing (more)
Our clients have achieved remarkable success and they have nice things to say about us.
Who we are
Our editorial team comprises professional authors, screenwriters and former commissioning editors at major publishing houses.
The firm was set up by Harry Bingham (right), himself a bestselling author of both fiction and non-fiction. Harry's work has been published in the UK, the US, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, China, Japan and numerous other territories besides. He has been short-and long-listed for major literary awards. His Getting Published is the standard work on the subject.
Our editors
We recruit only the very best editors - ones who have between them published 100s of books, and have won or been shortlisted for numerous awards, including:
• Orange Broadband • Orange New Writer • Whitbread Best Book • Hawthornden • Betty Trask • Crime Writers Ass'n Best First Novel • Sinclair Prize • Guardian Fiction • Authors' Club Best First Novel • Commonwealth Writers 1st Novel • Goss First Novel • Pendleton May Best First Novel • Guardian Children's Fiction • Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize • Dazed & Confused Most Promising Author • Esquire/Waterstones Non-fiction • PEN/JR Ackerley Autobiography • Radio 4 Writer of the Year • RNA New Writers • WHS Thumping Good Read • and many others
Our film consultants
We also work with screenplays, and our film & TV team includes screenwriters who have sold work to Miramax, Working Title, Film4, the BBC, ITV, the Film Council, ABC, CBS, Icon, Gorgeous, and many more besides. Between them, our team is responsible for hundreds of hours of screened entertainment.
Our connections
As the largest firm of our kind, we are probably also the best connected. We run the industry’s leading Festival of Writing. We have superb connections with literary agents & film agents. We also work with some of the world’s leading publishers. If you need a door opened, we can probably open it.
The nice people who run the office
We also aim to be outstandingly professional in our relationship with you. If we achieve that, it's because of our wonderful office staff. They are:
Laura Wilkins studied English Literature at BA & MA level. She subsequently worked in the book world for seven years, as a bookseller, publishing assistant and librarian. She has also been an estate agent (but the less said about that the better).
Laura is an obsessive reader and analyzer, and now & again dabbles in writing her own stuff.
