'How to get published': Kate Mosse in conversation with Elaine Canning, Director of the Swansea Uni Dylan Thomas Prize

'How to get published' with Kate Mosse in conversation with Elaine Canning, Director of the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize

Have you dreamed of a writing career but don’t have the confidence to give it a go? Or feel that there are too many barriers to the publishing world to getting your work published? Join bestselling novelist and Discoveries chair of judges, Kate Mosse for an inspiring talk about her journey and the Women’s Prize Discoveries writing programme and prize .

Run in partnership with Audible, Curtis Brown Literary Agency and Curtis Brown Creative Writing School, Discoveries addresses challenges that women face as writers and finds new talent. Entry is free, open to all women over 18 in the UK or Ireland and writers are not required to have finished their novel. Unpublished and un-agented women writers can submit the opening of a novel in English – up to 10,000 words – for the chance to take part in a bespoke creative writing course, secure personalised mentorship packages, an offer of literary agent representation and a prize of £5000. The judges look for promise, not polish. For more information visit here https://womensprize.com/discoveries

Supported by the Women’s Prize Trust.

Kate Mosse CBE is an international bestselling novelist, playwright, theatre performer, and writer of history and memoir. She is also an activist who supports female creatives and the Founder Director of the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction (which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2025) and Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Kate’s books have been adapted for the stage and TV, translated into thirty-eight languages and published in more than forty countries.

*Please note: Event delivered in English

‘Sut i gael eich cyhoeddi’: gyda Kate Mosse mewn sgwrs gydag Elaine Canning, Cyfarwyddwr Gwobr Dylan Thomas Prifysgol Abertawe

Ydych chi erioed wedi breuddwydio am yrfa ysgrifennu ond doeddech chi ddim yn ddigon hyderus i fynd amdani? Neu ydych chi'n teimlo bod gormod o rwystrau yn y byd cyhoeddi i'ch gwaith chi gael ei gyhoeddi? Ymunwch â'r nofelydd tra phoblogaidd a Chadeirydd Beirniaid Gwobr Discoveries, Kate Mosse, am sgwrs a fydd yn eich ysbrydoli am ei thaith a rhaglen ysgrifennu a gwobr Discoveries y Women’s Prize Trust a sefydlwyd i fynd i'r afael â'r heriau penodol mae menywod sy'n ysgrifennu yn eu hwynebu. Cefnogir y digwyddiad gan y Women's Prize Trust

Mae Kate Mosse CBE yn nofelydd, yn dramodydd, yn berfformiwr theatr ac yn awdur hanes a hunangofiant rhyngwladol hynod boblogaidd. Mae hi hefyd yn ymgyrchydd sy'n cefnogi creadigrwydd benywaidd ac yn Gyfarwyddwr Sylfaenydd y wobr arobryn Ffuglen gan Fenywod (sy'n dathlu ei phen-blwydd yn 30 yn 2025) a Gwobr y Menywod am Lyfr Ffeithiol. Mae llyfrau Kate wedi cael eu haddasu ar gyfer y llwyfan a'r teledu, wedi'u cyfieithu i 38 o ieithoedd ac wedi'u cyhoeddi mewn dros bedwar deg o wledydd.

*Sylwch: Cyflwynwyd y digwyddiad yn Saesneg