We're very aware that with just six people allowed to meet indoors at the moment, all writing groups have been severely affected by the Covid outbreak, so – in order to keep Gloucestershire Writers' Network writing – we'd like to offer you a discounted place on the forthcoming Write Here… Online novel-writing course, which you can take from the comfort of your own home, if you sign up by midnight on Monday 31 May.

Write Here… Online is an eight-week course, taught by expert editor and Two Piers Agency literary agent Rufus Purdy, which takes writers from those tentative early planning stages right through to submitting their finished manuscript to literary agents and publishers. Featuring masterclasses on plot, characterisation, dialogue and all the other essential aspects of novel-writing, the course also involves all-important sessions on editing and pitching your novel. The final week will also involve a Q&A session in which Rufus directly answers students’ questions directly.