Faber & Faber

Saturday 6th March 2010

Bloomsbury House
74-77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DA

Course cost: £175

The Art of Publication: Covering Letters, Opening Chapters and Great Titles
with Hannah Griffiths and Arzu Tahsin

A one-day course offering aspiring fiction writers the opportunity to find out what really goes on inside a publishing house, how editors make their choices and how to improve one’s chances of publication. The programme will include sessions on Editing your First Page, how to write a great covering letter and the top ten reasons manuscripts are rejected.

Held at the Faber offices in the heart of literary Bloomsbury, the course will be directed by Hannah Griffiths (Faber and Faber) and Arzu Tahsin (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), two of publishing’s most established editors.

Course itinerary to follow.

The course includes:

•    1 day of intensive tuition by Hannah Griffiths and Arzu Tahsin (10am-5pm)
•    A complimentary Moleskine® Notebook
•    An artisan lunch
•    Regular coffee breaks
•    A handy course pack
•    A special discount off Faber books purchased at www.faber.co.uk

About the Tutors

Hannah Griffiths has worked in publishing for seventeen years. She began life as a publicist, then became an agent and now works as an editor at Faber and Faber. Her list includes the award-winning novelists Rachel Cusk, Miriam Toews, Barbara Kingsolver and Deidre Madden.

Arzu Tahsin began her career in publishing over 20 years ago at Virago Press. She then moved to Random House where she worked at Vintage, before joining Bloomsbury in 2002 where she acquired Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, Jim Lynch’s The Highest Tide and most recently, Daniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. She is currently Editorial Director at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, part of the Orion Group. She has worked with many successful authors including Donna Tartt, Joanna Trollope, Kamila Shamsie, Chuck Palahnuik, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Jeanette Winterson, Salman Rushdie and Anne Tyler.

About Faber

Faber and Faber is the last of the great independent publishing houses in London. We were established in 1929 by Geoffrey Faber and our first editor was T. S. Eliot. Among our list of authors we are proud to publish five Booker Prize winners and eleven Nobel Laureates. We are particularly well-known for our unrivalled list of modern poets and playwrights, as well as for publishing writers of prize-winning fiction and general non-fiction. More


To make a booking:

Contact Patrick on either patrickk@faber.co.uk or +44 (0) 207 927 3822

Alternatively, write to:

Patrick Keogh
Faber and Faber Ltd
74-77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DA

Places are strictly limited, so book soon to avoid disappointment