Winners of The Write Co Short Story Competition

1st Prize: Up in Arms by Ilva Pieterse
A Writers Write course – valued at R4 500, or gift vouchers for The Write Co valued at R4 500, your story published in The Write Co Newsletter
2nd Prize: Action Approved by Richard Greensmith
1 year’s subscription to The Write Club, worth R1 800
3rd Prize: Raw/Hide by Amanda Paulsen
4 [...]

Amanda Speaks to Author/Publisher, Laura Boon

Author: Laura Boon
Date: 31  August 2006 & 24 July 2008
Sun Sign: Leo
Where: Staffroom, Crawford College & Chocadore, Hyde park
The Book: Public Relations & Your Business (Frontrunner)
The Reason: Laura Boon Literary Agency

1.   Who is your favourite hero of fiction?
Stephanie Plum
2.  What is your most treasured possession?
My books
3.   Which living person do you most dislike?
Tony Leon. He’s [...]

Special Offer on Russian Opera Tickets

“We’re thrilled to be able to offer this,” says Amanda Patterson, CEO or the Write Co about the low price prime tickets that they are able to offer via this blog and their website and Facebook Groups.
The Russian Opera, Iolanta, with the libretto by Pyotr’s brother, Modest Tchaikovsky after the dramatic poem ‘King Rene’s Daughter’ [...]

Amanda Will Train the First Writers’ Write Course in Durban

We will be hosting the inaugural Writers Write course in Durban, as a one week course, from 25th August – 29th August from 09:00 – 13:00 daily. I will be training this course for this session only.
Please note that we only have a limited number of available spaces on this [...]

Book Review:The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce

The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce by Paul Torday (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) ISBN: 978-0-297-85293-3
Paul Torday’s debut novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing. It was serialised on radio, and appeared on many UK lists of summer reads, including the coveted Richard and Judy endorsement.

Readers expecting more light comic [...]

The Night Class

by Amanda Patterson
Teachers dread it. They wake up sweating in the middle of the night, drenched with the horror of it. Only once you’ve experienced it, can you understand it.
You stand in front of that sea of blank faces. You see ten or twelve parasites – glassy eyed with an attentiveness that sucks the life [...]

How Do you Turn an Engineer into a Writer?

It’s not what you say; it’s how you say it.
Facts are no longer just facts.
Does your reader understand them?
Can you point out problems without being offensive?
Companies are starting to treat business writing with the respect it deserves.
This poses the question: How do you turn an engineer into a writer?
The simple answer: You train them.
“In most [...]

The 5 Most Common Problems First Time Writers Share

by Amanda Patterson
I have run my creative writing course, Writers Write for four years.
I have learned so much from teaching novelists to dream their books into life.
I have watched people struggle as they decide whether or not they need to attend a writing course.
After many rejections and lots of reflection, they join.
Writing teachers and mentors, [...]

The Write Company Newsletter – July 2008

There is plenty to read in The Write Co Newsletter for July 2008. The Feature Story is about The Write Co, Cape Town’s First Birthday. Pictured above are Sarah, Amanda and Nicci at that festive occasion.
Well here is a brief outline of the contents:

News
Guest Speaker: 24 July 2008 – High coffee with a literary agent
Courses [...]

Amanda’s 17 Questions for Lauren Libenberg

Date: 25 June 2008
Place: Chocadore, Hyde Park, Johannesburg, South Africa
Book: The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam
Date of Birth: 3 August 1972

1. Who is your favourite hero of fiction?
Ellis “Red” Reddy from The Shawshank Redemption.
2. What is your most treasured possession?
My photographs
3. Which living person do you most dislike?
Robert Mugabe
4. What is [...]