Our friends at Scottish Book Trust run a brilliant scheme for teenagers looking to become creative writers. What’s Your Story? is Scotland’s

Here at Skriva, we love Scrivener (and not just because it sounds like it was made for us!). Scrivener is a software application that helps writers do their work better and easier. Whether you are writing a book or a screenplay, a biography, a comic strip or a stage play, Scrivener provides a wide range of features to help writers organise their material, do research, create plots and outlines and put your creativity on the page. Whatever it is you are writing, you are going

Doug and I have been looking for ways to make our courses more accessible. With that in mind, we've just launched a new award for writers on tight budgets: the Skriva Novelist Scholarship. We're offering a place on one of the 6-week Novel Writing courses, taught by myself, to the winner of the award. The award is open to writers who have not previously had a novel published, and who would otherwise struggle to pay for one of our courses. The Scholarship: If you win the award,