Apprenticeship in Fiction

http://www.adventuresinfiction.co.uk/apprenticeships/index.html

Above sounds like a great opportunity.

A one-year professional development programme for first-time novelists. Adventures in Fiction is proud to present five subsidized placements for first-time novelists of commercial and literary fiction, including one for crime and one for fiction for young people (11+). The placements, which have an individual value of over £2,750 will take the form of an apprenticeships with a professional writer working in a similar genre.

The five apprentices will be selected from open competition by a panel of experts including up and coming literary agent Rupert Heath.

In its first two years, the scheme has resulted in one publication and referred four writers to literary agents.

Two writers have also secured Arts Council assistance to fund mentoring placements. Apprenticeships in Fiction aims to encourage diversity, excellence and originality.