Dr Nathalie Teitler -– Writer development service
Benefit from over 20 years of experience helping artists reach their full potential through mentoring, editing and nurturing. For the last 20 years Dr Nathalie Teitler has been helping writers to develop their talent and craft. Working in all genres, many of the writers she has supported have gone on to be published by imprints including Bloodaxe,
HarperCollins and Mills and Boon, as well as winning major prizes, such as the Bridport Fiction Prize. The service is bespoke, tailored precisely for what a writer might need at their stage of development. Each session with Nathalie is carefully tailored with extensive discussion and close reading of the writer’s work. This can be as short as 90- minute session, all the way up to a year-long package of support. Particular areas of expertise include:
• Editing-from first to final draft.
• Addressing specific craft issues.
• Mentoring - a writer through the process trying a new medium or genre.
• Building audiences and use of social media.
• Working with bi-lingual and multi-cultural writers to develop a unique voice.
• Advice on fundraising for literature-related projects.
• Insight into maintaining creativity over the long term.
• Help overcoming writers’ block. Sessions can be delivered face to face, by Skype or by e-mail. Costs are reasonable, with support priced to reflect a writer’s current circumstances. About Nathalie:
Dr Nathalie Teitler holds a PhD in Latin American poetry from King’s College London, and is a former lecturer in creative writing and literature at Birkbeck College and City Lit. She is the Director of the Complete Works (TCW), a national development programme promoting diversity and quality in UK poetry. Under her leadership, the programme has lead to the numbers of Black and Asian poets published by the UK’s major presses dramatically increasing, from less than 1% to over 8%. Nathalie has also founded a unique mentoring scheme for writers living in exile, which has lead to many books of fiction and poetry being published, and served as a judge for a number of national and international poetry competitions.
