{"id":2750,"date":"2019-09-29T10:49:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T09:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2019-10-02T15:57:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T14:57:26","slug":"writing-for-a-living-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2019\/09\/29\/writing-for-a-living-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing for a Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Do you want to write for a living? What does a writer\u2019s day look like? What are the options and how can you get started? Our expert panel of professional writers look at the trials and tribulations of making a living from the written word and share their insights into breaking into this competitive, frustrating and rewarding profession.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by: Declan Wiffen, Lecturer in Creative Theory and Contemporary Literature<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Confirmed Panellist:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Nick Barreto &#8211; Co-Founder and Technology Director at Canelo<\/li>\n<li>Rosario Blue &#8211; Freelance journalist, social media manager and editor<\/li>\n<li>Heidi Colthup \u2013 Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics<\/li>\n<li>Vybarr Cregan-Reid &#8211; Professor of English and Environmental Humanities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Schedule<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>16:00 &#8211; Panel Discussion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>All welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 9th October, 16:00-18:00. Grimond LT3<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to write for a living? What does a writer\u2019s day look like? What are the options and how can you get started? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2019\/09\/29\/writing-for-a-living-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53063,"featured_media":2751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[143219,178181],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2764,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions\/2764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}