PRIVATE MENTORING
With twenty years' experience as a fiction editor for various major London publishers, as well as four novels published by Picador and a non-fiction memoir, Charlotte is uniquely in demand for her one-to-one help for authors at every stage of writing a novel. She works primarily with experienced non-fiction writers and journalists struggling with their first novel, and her help varies from discussing possible themes to in-depth structural editing, from regular morale-boosting meetings to giving advice about agents and publication. She has worked with debut writers, well-known journalists and famous authors, and can offer a completely personalised programme wholly based on the tutee's requirements. She also can help structure non-fiction, from memoirs to biography and history.
Charlotte has a long waiting list but occasionally has space for a new mentee; please contact her for more information.
TEACHING
Charlotte is a highly-regarded teacher of creative writing classes at all levels. She has taught six-month Guardian/UEA creative writing courses and numerous one-day fiction masterclasses, as well as Advanced Fiction for the Arvon Foundation; she has given fiction writing workshops at the Faber Academy and conducted numerous workshops and masterclasses on how to write, how to self-edit and, occasionally, how to get published at a huge range of schools and literary festivals. She has been a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, on the Creative Writing MA course.
She frequently teaches three-month courses for Curtis Brown Creative; for more information, please see http://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/three-month-novel-writing-course-with-charlotte-mendelson/