Contact us/apply to Gold Dust

Gold Dust Mentoring Ltd
PO Box 247
Ely
CB7 9BX

Application to Gold Dust is simple and you will know within weeks or even days whether you have been successful. We are a small selective scheme and whether you are awarded a place will one of our top mentors will be based on the quality and promise of the work in progress you submit to us.

Please in the first instance, email us at .

‘I will miss our sessions in the British Library and I hope to work with Gold Dust again on my next book.I cannot recommend this programme highly enough.’
– Felix Bechtolsheimer, shortlisted for Tony Lothian award, mentored by Sally Cline

We will discuss your requirements, which of our writer-mentors might be most suitable for you, and then if we feel you would be right for our programme, we will invite you to apply by emailing us a small sample – of around five thousand words – of your work in progress. If one of the three mentors we approach on your behalf feels your work has potential you will be offered a place with that mentor. We believe that a mentor who loves your project and chooses to work with you is the best possible start for the mentoring.

'On Louise Doughty – words simply fail me. She is the most wonderful mentor I could ever have hoped to have.'
– Stephanie Scott, whose novel The Sentence is about to be published. Mentored by Louise Doughty

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Please note that not everyone is successful and we reserve the right to say no to applications that we do not feel meet our selection criteria.

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