Miri Halahmy : news and notes

I have just secured a three book offer from Meadowside Books, award winning publishers of picture books, who are now building their older fiction list, which is also winning awards. The first book in my linked cycle of three novels set on Hayling Island may come out as early as October 2010. Exciting times and lots of work ahead. Watch this space!

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I am running a poetry workshop on the first HamHigh Literary Festival this September and we will be focusing on Surprising ways into poetry. Click on the link and scroll down to my entry. Hope to see you there!
HamHigh Literary Festival

We had a great Masterclass on Writing Dialogue last Saturday at the usual London meeting place, upstairs at the Theodore Bullfrog pub. Thanks to everyone who attended. I was most impressed by all the different ideas and writing which the writers presented to the class and feedback has been very positive. People have commented that they found the workshop inspiring and very practical, helping them to sort out difficulties with characters and plot, to take their novels forward. I run regular… Continue

I am gathering some juicy materials for my Masterclass on June 27th on Writing Dialogue. If you are interested, there are still some places. Some of my weekly workshop participants have been working on dialogue this term and they have highlighted two major problems : how to integrate dialogue and narrative seamlessly into their work and how to write distinct voices for each character. Both of these gritty problems will be dealt wi… Continue