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Welcome to the Transition Tradition Writing Community

2 December 2008

The Transition Tradition writing community brings together articles, interviews, resources, events and news for anyone with an interest in developing their writing practice or building a career as a writer. You can meet other emerging and more established writers in our forums and also contribute your own work for publication here at Transition Tradition.

Latest Writing Articles

How to Get Your Writing Published

2 April 2009

Freelance journalism can be both lucrative and rewarding, plus you get to work in your pyjamas or in coffee shops, or both if you're feeling brave. It's also highly competitive, and a lot of writers spend large chunks of their time pitching for work.

Post-Collegiate Drift; Making the Transition from an English Degree

29 November 2008

In retrospect, I was always going to do an MA.

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Writing Community Forum

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If you think it's impossible then you are wrong, I began writing commercially...

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This is a new forum and a new topic - all in all a momentous day! And what better way to begin the Writing Community Forum than with a topic which gets to the heart of the challenge for new writers - to earn or not to earn!

Sadly for most of us it is the latter but lets here from some of you who manage the alchemy and get paid for writing...

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Latest Writing Interviews

Creating a Career as an Author of Teenage Fiction - An Interview with Mal Peet

17 November 2010

Mal Peet is a Devon-based author who, after trying a variety of jobs, has found success in writing.

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work; Interview with Alain de Botton

18 June 2009

Alain de Botton is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a 'philosophy of everyday life.' He's written on love, travel, architecture and literature.

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Latest Writing Community Reviews

The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets

07/12/2008 - 14:10

The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets is a landmark collection not only because it catalogues the achievement of Indian poets over the twentieth-century,

13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

01/02/2006 - 08:00

As a writer and potential novelist, (I can dream, can't I?) I found Jane Smiley's book both enlightening and terrifying, probably in equal measures.

Throughout the 570 pages, which includes synopses of each of the 100 novels she read, she applies a dazzlingly wide range of approaches.