​The School for the Creative Industries is pleased to announce a new series of talks by professional writers.

Throughout the series you’ll learn about:

• completing a manuscript and submitting it;
• literary agents;
• publishers;
• book, television, and radio contracts;
• promotion and publicity;
• public engagement activities;
• and writing-related employment, including freelancing and teaching​

Jim Friel

Author (as James Friel) of the novels The Posthumous Affair, The Higher Realm, Left of North,
Taking the Veil, and Careless Talk. Has written screen and BBC radio adaptations of works by
Charlotte Brontë, David Hare, Kazuo Ishiguro, Iris Murdoch, and Orhan Pamuk. Winner of a Betty
Trask prize, an Authors’ Foundation grant, and Arts Council bursaries. Former Senior Lecturer in
Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University and visiting writer at l’Université de Rouen.
Has tutored for the Arvon Foundation and Tŷ Newydd, and on Art of Writing courses in Italy