Exceptionally useful advice
JENNY HULME, Journalist and author
What makes great writing? I think it's having something to say, then saying it well. The former can't be taught, but the latter can.
If you're at the stage where you
want to turn good writing into
terrific writing, I can help.
Mentoring is available by email. I will give you feedback on either work in progress, extracts or full manuscripts. This takes the form of a detailed edit and an overview critique. Send me up to 4,000 words for £95. It's also possible to send as many further batches of up to 4,000 words as you need, for the same price.
I can help you with fiction, poetry and journalism. For poetry, send a pamphlet-length collection (up to 16 poems) for an overview or 6-8 poems for a substantial, detailed critique.
I also run workshops for adults in these three fields. To book me for your event please use the box below for a quote.
If you're based in or near Cardiff, mentoring is available face-to-face if you prefer. Contact me in the box for details.
'Mark proved to be the most wonderful co-pilot as I wrote 60,000 words for 12 chapters of a book. Unlike an editor or sub who might be tempted to just rewrite a passage that wasn’t working, or redirect the copy by urging a rethink on style or message, Mark took time to completely understand my aims and style and material – and then offered thought-through and exceptionally useful advice on how I use those words and that style to best effect.
'It can be hard to write long features or books in isolation, but you don’t always want a second writer intruding on the journey. As a mentor by email Mark was never intrusive but instead gave me real confidence in the work I was doing. He helped make the writing of my first book a positive and pleasurable experience.'
Jenny Hulme, Journalist and author of The School of Wellbeing and How to Create Kind Schools
If you're at the stage where you
want to turn good writing into
terrific writing, I can help.
Mentoring is available by email. I will give you feedback on either work in progress, extracts or full manuscripts. This takes the form of a detailed edit and an overview critique. Send me up to 4,000 words for £95. It's also possible to send as many further batches of up to 4,000 words as you need, for the same price.
I can help you with fiction, poetry and journalism. For poetry, send a pamphlet-length collection (up to 16 poems) for an overview or 6-8 poems for a substantial, detailed critique.
I also run workshops for adults in these three fields. To book me for your event please use the box below for a quote.
If you're based in or near Cardiff, mentoring is available face-to-face if you prefer. Contact me in the box for details.
'Mark proved to be the most wonderful co-pilot as I wrote 60,000 words for 12 chapters of a book. Unlike an editor or sub who might be tempted to just rewrite a passage that wasn’t working, or redirect the copy by urging a rethink on style or message, Mark took time to completely understand my aims and style and material – and then offered thought-through and exceptionally useful advice on how I use those words and that style to best effect.
'It can be hard to write long features or books in isolation, but you don’t always want a second writer intruding on the journey. As a mentor by email Mark was never intrusive but instead gave me real confidence in the work I was doing. He helped make the writing of my first book a positive and pleasurable experience.'
Jenny Hulme, Journalist and author of The School of Wellbeing and How to Create Kind Schools
Email me a sample of up to 4,000 words that you wish you work on, and receive a critique, a detailed edit and advice for what to do next. The feedback will be constructively critical; it's designed to help, not simply endorse. You can have as many sessions as you wish. Contact me in the box with further questions or special requests.
Accreditations and experience
Poetry Longlisted for the National Poetry Competition. Awarded prizes by the Welsh Centre for International Affairs in their 'Peace 75' competition, the Arvon Foundation, plus commendations from the Hungry Hill Prize and the Poets Meet Painters Prize. Widely published in literary magazines; more on the Poems page. Finalist in the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry and a UK Slam finalist.
Fiction Somerset Maugham Prize for Two Kinds of Silence. Highly commended in the New Welsh Review Rheidol Prize, 2019 and 2020. Seren Short Story of the Month for The Murder of Dylan Thomas. Doppelgangers published with Parthian and fourth story collection is forthcoming. Member of the Society of Authors and Member of the Welsh Academy.
Journalism Business Journalist of the Year, Wales Media Awards 2017. Author of BCI25: An oral history of a 21st century institute (2019). Fellowship from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIM). 200+ articles published in the Guardian, the Independent, the Financial Times, the Times and many business press titles. Journalism page for more.
Workshops I've given workshops for Literature Wales, the Young People's Laureate 'Make some noise' project, Melbourne Girls School and Word Ward, a writing group for people with long-term health conditions at the Wales Millennium Centre. Hay Festival Writer at Work, 2016 and 2917. Fellowship from the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
Poetry Longlisted for the National Poetry Competition. Awarded prizes by the Welsh Centre for International Affairs in their 'Peace 75' competition, the Arvon Foundation, plus commendations from the Hungry Hill Prize and the Poets Meet Painters Prize. Widely published in literary magazines; more on the Poems page. Finalist in the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry and a UK Slam finalist.
Fiction Somerset Maugham Prize for Two Kinds of Silence. Highly commended in the New Welsh Review Rheidol Prize, 2019 and 2020. Seren Short Story of the Month for The Murder of Dylan Thomas. Doppelgangers published with Parthian and fourth story collection is forthcoming. Member of the Society of Authors and Member of the Welsh Academy.
Journalism Business Journalist of the Year, Wales Media Awards 2017. Author of BCI25: An oral history of a 21st century institute (2019). Fellowship from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIM). 200+ articles published in the Guardian, the Independent, the Financial Times, the Times and many business press titles. Journalism page for more.
Workshops I've given workshops for Literature Wales, the Young People's Laureate 'Make some noise' project, Melbourne Girls School and Word Ward, a writing group for people with long-term health conditions at the Wales Millennium Centre. Hay Festival Writer at Work, 2016 and 2917. Fellowship from the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
