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application form
You can either to post with your manuscript, or send it separately using the 'submit' button below. Please do not send manuscripts via email.
name
address
postcode
email address
telephone
mobile phone

name of project
you wish to work on
Please tell us briefly what you would hope to achieve by the opportunity to have input from a Gold Dust mentor.  Please also indicate whether you prefer to meet in London, Oxford, Manchester or Cambridgeshire, and days and times you would have available.

previous writing experience/publications or attendance at creative writing courses


Where did you hear about Gold Dust?

other:

  • The fee of £2000 is payable on acceptance to the scheme, on signature of a contract between Mentor and new writer.
  • We will acknowledge received work via email.
  • We cannot take responsibility for work lost in the post – never send the only copy of your work.   Work will not be returned.
  • Gold Dust has limited place numbers and we regret that not all those wishing to apply to the scheme will find a place.
  • The judges’ decisions will be final and no correspondence entered into.
  • Only those wishing to write fiction and/or life-writing (autobiography, biography, memoirs) are eligible to apply.  
  • Your work will be treated in the strictest confidence.
  • The copyright of your work is automatically yours and remains yours at all times.
  • Mentors will be chosen according to availability, location and compatibility with work submitted.
  • In the event of the relationship breaking down Gold Dust will negotiate to find a solution.  However, fees are non returnable.

PLEASE SEND BY SNAIL MAIL UP TO THREE CHAPTERS OF THE WORK IN PROGRESS and a fee for twenty pounds (cheques payable to Gold Dust Mentoring Scheme) to the following address:

PO Box 247
Ely
CB7 9BX

Do not send the work via email. Sorry, but work sent via email will not be acknowledged.  We regret that work will not be returned.  Thank you and good luck!

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