{"id":9968,"date":"2019-03-05T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T12:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=9968"},"modified":"2019-03-05T12:25:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T12:25:16","slug":"secl-alumni-take-part-in-writing-for-a-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/03\/05\/secl-alumni-take-part-in-writing-for-a-living\/","title":{"rendered":"SECL alumni take part in &#8216;Writing for a living&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School of English and the School of European Culture and Languages worked together to organise \u2018Writing for a living\u2019, an event for students across the Faculty of Humanities taking place as part of the University&#8217;s &#8216;Humanities for Hire&#8217; festival on Wednesday 27 February 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/scott.html\">Dr Jeremy Scott<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/index.html\">English Language and Linguistics<\/a> and a published author, chaired an expert panel of professional writers &#8211; including SECL graduate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/alumni-profiles\/Cook.html\">Emily Cook<\/a> &#8211; who discussed the trials and tribulations of making a living from the written word. The panel of writers, drawn from a range of careers including novelists, lecturers, journalists, freelance writers and poets, shared their insights into breaking into this competitive, frustrating and rewarding profession.<\/p>\n<p>Following the event, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/colthup.html\">Heidi Colthup<\/a>, panellist and Lecturer in English Language &amp; Linguistics, commented: \u2018It was great to have a packed room for the panel, and to speak to so many students afterwards who wanted to know more about how to get a career in writing started. The event was a very good opportunity to hear a wide variety of experiences about writing for a living and how surprisingly accessible it can be\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of English and the School of European Culture and Languages worked together to organise \u2018Writing for a living\u2019, an event for students across &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/03\/05\/secl-alumni-take-part-in-writing-for-a-living\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":9971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9968"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9993,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions\/9993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}