Realise your literary dreams..

I Changed My Career – So Can You! A former teacher who became a professional writer is hoping to inspire others to pursue their literary dreams. Deany Judd spent ten years teaching teens at a Glasgow comprehensive before changing careers and becoming a freelance features writer for the national press. Now, together with a team of published authors, she has launched Literary Chicks – offering online writing courses for wannabe writers.  The web based company will offer a variety of topical online writing courses for today’s newspaper, magazine and book publishing markets.

Deany said: “Many people dream of becoming a published writer and we aim to show them how they can turn those dreams into reality.”

Literary Chicks writing courses are written and tutored by accomplished writers including bestselling authors and top name journalists working on publications as diverse as The Guardian, Grazia, The Daily Telegraph, Time Out, Woman’s Own, and The Sunday Times.

Chick lit author Kate Harrison, who has just published her eighth novel and is offering a ten week course on writing womens’ fiction, is typical of the calibre of tutors Literary chicks has on board.  She said: “I’m really excited about Literary Chicks, as I gleaned so much wonderful information and support myself from the internet when I was starting out. Learning via the web is a fantastic opportunity. The aim of my course is to share the knowledge I’ve built up as the author of eight novels, and as a journalist, script-writer and TV development producer. But I also hope that the writers taking part will be able to develop their own voices, stories and styles.”

Deany herself writes regularly for The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Express and have written extensively for The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times and the Sunday Herald as well as Hello! Magazine.

Deany says: ”Before I became a freelance writer in 1999, I was an English teacher for ten years. Being an avid reader of newspapers and magazines, I always harbored ambitions to be a writer. On maternity leave with my third child, I spotted an advert for a two-day course on how to write magazine articles and signed up. Once there, I knew this was what I wanted to do and within a fortnight I had my first article published in The Sunday Times. I was hooked. Not just on writing, but on writing courses. I have since discovered that all sorts of women would like to write about all sorts of things and that there’s a real lack of relevant courses on offer. Enlisting the help of some great writers, Literary Chicks was born – or should that be hatched?”

The courses on offer are contemporary and relevant and cover the following areas:

*Life Love and Louboutins: writing for women’s glossy magazines

*Great Production, Shame about the Review: the do’s and don’ts of Reviewing for Publication

*A Funny Thing Happened … How to write for the humour market

*Web writing: the world wide web is your oyster

*An Introduction to travel writing

*Introduction to food and wine writing

*How to write radio plays

*Writing parenting features

*Writing about interiors

*Health and fitness features

Deany added: “I hope that the contemporary and unique courses on offer, tutored by experienced writers may well spark a whole new career for people.”

To find out more or to book your place on a course, please visit www.LiteraryChicks.com

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Laura

I'm Laura. I started Novel Kicks back in 2009 as I wanted a place to discuss books and writing - two loves of my life. As someone who has anxiety, these two things give me, and I am sure countless others, a much needed escape.
There is a monthly book club, writing exercises, prompts, reviews, author interviews, competitions and guest posts. I cover many genres and I hope there is something for everyone.
I grew up by the sea in Dorset and currently live in Poole with my husband, Chris and three cats. I love writing and have a BA (Hons) in Creative Writing from Falmouth University. I am writing my first book. If only I could stop pressing delete. Chris has threatened to stop it from working. Haha.
I have always loved creative writing since I was in first school and would very much like to meet my teacher, Miss Sayers, to say thank you for all the encouragement she gave me then.
When not writing, I love reading, cats, Disney, singing (I can't sing but this doesn't stop me,) and falling into a good TV show or film. If I could step into any fictional world, it would be amongst the characters in ABC's Once Upon a Time.
I love reading many genres and discovering new authors.