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Hello! How are you doing this week? I’ve finally caught up with my longhand novel transcription. It was fun for a day, then got pretty tedious (and I suspect all of the fiddly editing was possibly worse for my wrist). Now I’ve got a writing plan for the rest of the year – there are just nine chapters of my novel draft left to write before Christmas. It’s taken me five years, but I can see the finish line. Before I crack on, let’s dive into this week’s listings.
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Rosie Conroy, editorial manager at Gleneagles, is looking for pitches for the spring/summer issue of The Gleneagle - the hotel's biannual newspaper. Features will be geared towards an international audience and rooted in Scottish culture, food, and design, or focused specifically on Gleneagles. Above average rates. Send brief pitches to rosie.conroy@gleneagles.com by 11th December.
Holly Bullock at Stylist needs a writer from a big family for a first-person piece.
Lucy Morgan at Glamour is looking for pitches from middle class women of a certain age to write about Gregg Wallace.
Freddie Whittaker, deputy editor at Schools Week is looking for freelance news reporters for some potential work in the new year.
InsightX is taking on freelance journalists.
The Design Museum need an interpretation editor to work two days a week to create exhibition text.
Business Insider is hiring an editor for three months.
Bauer Media is recruiting a part-time programme leader in journalism for its early career academy.
Thomson Reuters need a part-time senior specialist legal editor for Practical Law, covering property.
Another one for the legal eagles, solicitors Harper James is looking for a freelance legal content writer.
Couture uniform company – Fashionizer – need a freelance content writer.
HR website HappyDance is hiring a content populator on a part-time basis. Not the most inspiring job title in the world, but the work is regular.
Tech Cornwall is looking for a freelance digital content creator to help build their apprenticeship programme.
Taylor Made Arts need a freelance writer for a Buddhism podcast project.
Working on something innovative in digital writing? The New Media Writing Prize is open for entries.
The Hive Young Writers Competition has categories for writers aged 17-19 and 20-30 from or based in Yorkshire, or the nearby north/midlands. It’s free to enter.
The London Society’s Love Letter theme this year is ‘Dreams For London’. My personal dream is for more cafes to stay open past 5pm, but let’s not get carried away. (Shout out to Briki for being basically perfect.)
Autograph has put out a call for new writing that ‘critically engages with the ways in which the studio provides creative space to explore expression and identity’, which sounds super interesting. This one’s via Underpinned.
Supported by the Royal Society, mentoring scheme for aspiring STEM writers from underrepresented backgrounds – ScienceWrite – is now open for applications.
The Everyman Playhouse in Liverpool has launched its latest Playwright’s Programme.
Literature Works’ annual online talent development programme, Word Space, is open for applications from writers in the south west.
The George Weidenfeld Fellowship is open for entries from UK-based journalists looking to spend time working with the German media. Make sure you apply by the end of next week.
The Royal Literary Fund fellowship scheme for writers in higher education is now open for applications.
Last one of the week before I go and open today’s advent calendar window for my treats: friend of FWJ, Penny Wincer is running a scholarship for a place in her non fiction book proposal group.
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The books I’ve put on my Christmas list: Fierce Appetites | Another Marvellous Thing | Parallel Lives| Celina | At The Breakfast Table.
And finally: just started reading and already head over heels | dinner plans | weekend plans | all the books I’ve loved this year.
I'm Sian Meades-Williams. I'm a freelance writer, author and poet and I was the winner of the 2022 Yeovil Literary Prize. My book The Pyjama Myth: the Freelance Writer's Survival Guide will make you a better, happier freelancer and it’s out now.
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