When will I learn who my Personal Tutor is?
Your Personal Tutor will be confirmed the week before the programme 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 programme. This is to ensure you will be allocated to the tutor who is best placed to support you on the programme 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 4 tutors in total: 2 based in the UK, and 2 based in the USA
Winter: There are 6 tutors in total: 4 based in the UK, 1 based in the USA, and 1 based in Australia.
How am I assigned a tutor?
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 programme, 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 programme has finished.
Which genres do the Tutors specialise in?
Spring tutors
- 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).
- 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 Ultimate Novel Writing Programme for just £20. We know how important it is to feel comfortable and confident when committing to a writing programme, so these sessions are designed so you can run your book idea past an expert tutor and get honest, professional guidance on two crucial questions: is this a book worth pursuing right now? and if so, is this the right course to help you write it?
If you do go on to join us on the Ultimate Novel Writing Programme, this session fee will be credited towards the course cost.
If you have any further questions about the Ultimate Novel Writing Programme 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.