The 2012 Winchester Writers' Conference,
Festival and Bookfair
22 - 24 June, 2012 - University of Winchester

Followed by the In-Depth Weeklong Writing Workshops
25 - 29 June, 2012

2012 Winchester Writers' Conference Programme now available online! Please go to the 'Conference' tab on left.

This year, we have 74 authors, poets, screenwriters, commissioning editors, literary agents and industry specialists attending the conference! To see the complete list, go to the Conference page.

The 2012 Winchester Writers' Conference, Festival and Bookfair is flexing its glossiest wings!

You can't imagine our excitement!

Alan Titchmarsh, OBE, gardener, novelist, broadcaster, raconteur and everyone's friend, will lead our glittering line-up of novelists, poets, playwrights, commissioning editors, literary agents and industry specialists as our Plenary Speaker

Jackie Kay, poet and storyteller will charm us with her best readings, Jack Sheffield will be showing aspiring writers how to create successful novels from his diaries as a Yorkshire school teacher, Margaret Graham, a great Winchester favourite, returns with cleaver ideas to construct novels, Sally Spedding, Lesley Horton, and Lindsey Ashford will conspire on crime fiction techniques. This is just a taster!

With the very able help of Sara Gangai, our administrator, we are piecing together the myriad collection of 50 lectures, 14 Masters' Courses, 18 workshops and 500 one-to-one appointments that become this international event for all writers.

In addition, eighteen writing competitions with 68 prizes are being clicked into place with sponsors and specifications, waiting for your creative ideas. Watch this space!

Booking for the conference will start soon...we wanted you to know we're working late tonight!

We plan to send most of the programmes for the Winchester Writers' Conference by email this year to reduce our carbon footprint. If you would like to help us, please email your address to: sara.gangai@winchester.ac.uk

You will be interested to know that the next Pitstop Refueling Weekend will be held on 23 - 25 March, 2012. Details are on the website and can be found in the Pitstop section.

Sara and I look forward to welcoming you back to us with brilliant new manuscripts to 'pitch' to editors and agents.

Barbara Large, MBE
Conference Director

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