The Middle Way Mentoring Project is a two-year professional development scheme which takes place between April 2023 – April 2025.
MASTERCLASSES
Saturday 13th January, 2-5pm, Plot, pace and making your work sizzle with Vaseem Khan
Saturday 24th February, 2-5pm, Curve Leicester, Crafting your career as a writer with Melanie Abrahams
Saturday 23rd March, 2-5pm, online, What Do Editors Do? with Bookouture
Saturday 20th April, 2-5pm, online, Authors and Editors: In conversation with Shalini Boland
Project plan: https://padlet.com/fshaikh9/middle-way-mentoring-crpdy7xo8qr7eet8
COVENTRY COHORT
Masterclasses will be held at Belgrade Theatre on the following dates:
Saturday 29 April, 2-5pm, Representation and the writer with Kasim Ali
Saturday 27 May, 2-5pm, Writing and form, inspired by experience with Elizabeth Chakrabarty
Saturday 24 June, 2-5pm, Harnessing time with Alison Woodhouse
Saturday 22 July, 2-5pm, A masterclass with Elaine Chiew
Saturday 19 August, 2-5pm, *Online*, Writing about place with Amanthi Harris
Saturday 2 September, 2-5pm, Replacing stereotypes with human stories in the current literary landscape with Sairish Hussain
Saturday 30 September, 2-5pm, The shape of fiction with Susmita Bhattacharya
LEICESTER COHORT
Masterclasses will be held at Curve Leicester on the following dates:
Saturday 6 May, 2-5pm, The purpose of writing with Kerry Young
Saturday 3 June, 2-5pm, Using research as a writer with Rebecca Burns
Saturday 1 July, 2-5pm, Fleshing out the backstory with Melissa Fu
Saturday 26 August, 2-5pm, Interrogating your sentences with Leone Ross
Saturday 23 September, 2-5pm, A masterclass with Ashley Hickson-Lovence
Saturday 7 October, 2-5pm, *Online*, Considering character with Michael Donkor
Saturday 13th January, 2-5pm, Plot, pace and making your work sizzle with Vaseem Khan
Sessions for both cohorts
Saturday 29 July, 3-4.30pm, *online*, Being a writer in the community with Yvonne Battle-Felton
Saturday 21 October, 2-5pm, Curve Leicester, Crafting your career as a writer with Melanie Abrahams
Saturday 11 November, 2-4pm, *online*, Wellbeing and Resilience with Words of Colour
Mentoring is mentee led, and involves working with your mentor for 6 sessions. Mentoring should take place within the first year between April 2023 – March 2024 with the following suggested timeline:
1/ May 2023
2/ July 2023
3/ September 2023
4/ November 2023
5/ Jan 2024
6/ March 2024