When will I learn who my Personal Tutor is?
Your Personal Tutor will be confirmed the week before the course is due to begin. We will take the preferences stated on your application into account when allocating your Personal Tutor, however the final decision will be made by the tutors once all the students have been confirmed on the course. This is to ensure you will be allocated to the tutor who is best placed to support you on the course and offer guidance with your novel.
Spots in each tutor group are limited, so we encourage you to apply early if there’s a specific tutor you’d like to work with.
How many tutors are there?
Spring: There are 6 tutors in total: 4 based in the UK, and 2 based in the USA
Winter: There are 7 tutors in total: 5 based in the UK, 1 based in the USA, and 1 based in Australia.
How am I assigned a mentor?
Our tutors have been chosen because they all have different specialisations and work across different genres. One will become your Personal Tutor and will read 3000 words of your work every month.
While you can request to work with a particular tutor in your application, you will be matched with the best-suited tutor for your project. If you’d really like to change, just let us know and we’ll see what we can do!
Who will be in my Tutor Group?
You will share your Personal Tutor with up to 9 other students, and work with your group closely throughout the course, in Tutor Group calls and peer feedback activities. Many of our alumni go on to form lifelong bonds and continue to support each other long after the course has finished.
Which genres do the Tutors specialise in?
Spring tutors
- Andrew Miller: Contemporary, literary, book club, historical, crime, thriller, and memoir.
- Anna Vaught: Literary, book club, fantasy, young adult, middle grade, and commercial (particularly gothic, magical realism, speculative, and historical).
- Emma Cooper: Contemporary, literary, book club, women's fiction, romance, fantasy, and young adult.
- Holly Seddon: Crime, thriller, women's fiction, literary, speculative, historical, and narrative non-fiction.
- Megan Collins: Mystery, thriller, suspense, women's fiction, book club, literary, speculative, horror, and romance.
- Mateo Askaripour: Literary, historical, contemporary, speculative, commercial, and any story that captures his interest and inspires curiosity.
Winter tutors
- Philip Womack: Children's books, young adult, literary, fantasy, science fiction, and literary biography.
- Natasha Bell: Psychological suspense, women’s fiction, queer fiction, and any stories that blur the line between truth and imagination.
- Sam Jordison: Contemporary, literary, science fiction, fantasy, crime, thriller, and creative non-fiction (including memoir).
- Helen Francis: Contemporary, women’s fiction, literary, crime, thrillers, and young adult fiction, amongst a long list of genres!
- Rosie Fiore: Contemporary, literary, book club, romance, historical, young adult, and crime and thriller.
- Lindsey Alexander: Historical, romance, mystery/thriller, literary, young adult, and humour.
- Liz Monument: Dystopian, science fiction, historical, fantasy, literary fusions, and anything quirky or genre-bending.
You can find more information about the tutors in the course brochure, which you can download
here.
Can I meet the tutors before committing?
You can book a 20 minute one-to-one video call with tutors on the Novel Writing Course for just £20, through our
Meet Your Tutor sessions. We know how important it is to feel comfortable and confident when committing to a writing course, so these sessions are designed to give you an insight into how you might work alongside your tutor, and whether this course is the right next step for you.
If you have any further questions about the Novel Writing Course you can book a call with a member of the team
here, or you can get in touch with the team at
courses@jerichowriters.com.