Lisa Selvidge

From the Algarve, Portugal, creative writing tutor offers creative writing feedback/critiques on prose fiction, scriptwriting and memoir (either by email or in situ), writing holidays for small groups, one day or half day workshops, and five week (2 hours per week) creative writing courses on writing fiction. Accommodation in the Monchique mountains is also available, providing a perfect retreat for writers, walkers, birdwatchers and anyone else who enjoys the mountains.

'To write a novel you must sit down and stay sitting. Unless you are a Hemingway and you stay standing. Or a Proust and you stay in bed.' Beryl Bainbridge (‘Waiting to Grow Up’, Review Saturday Guardian, 15.10.05)

'It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Sol Stein, Stein on Writing, St Martin's Press, 1995

'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.' Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, A Room of One's Own (1929)