Oxford

Writing

Mentors

One-to-one mentoring | Online writing feedback groups

Workshops with guest speakers | Residential courses and retreats

Oxford Writing Mentors… who are we?

  • OCLW

    The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW) has been operating for over 10 years. During that time, we have nurtured a vibrant and rich community of writers. We have supported many of these writers with advice, feedback, and camaraderie — and it has been a joy to see so many ideas conceived at the Life-Writing Centre turn into fully-fledged auto/biography, family history, essay, memoir, and poetry.

  • Words by Design

    Words by Design is a small publishing consultancy run by a Wolfson College alumni that specialises in memoirs, biographies and family histories.

    The company offers a range of bespoke services to individual and corporate clients, as well as to the printing and publishing industry.

  • Oxford Writing Mentors

    Together, we founded Oxford Writing Mentors (OWM) to help share our insights and offer support to other writers through online writing groups, individual mentoring sessions, conferences and retreats.

    Whether you are working on biography, autobiography, memoir, auto-fiction, novels, poetry, plays and screenplays… we have someone to help.

Testimonials…

Competition Winner

In 2022 we ran a competition to win a free place on our December course in Oxford.

Here we reproduce the winning entry.