We are piloting a mentorship based on the brilliant one offered by Gold Dust, whose mentorships are specifically for people writing books. Some of us are book-writers, and we certainly offer that, but we’re setting up here because we also work with drama, storytelling and comedy of all kinds.

What We Offer

As with Gold Dust, we enjoy doing this but we are busy and so we’re selective and don’t offer mentorships to all applicants. We’re not interested in taking people’s money and wasting their time, in a nutshell. We’re looking to work with people whose work shows talent and who are committed to working for a specific period.

Gold Dust offer, for a book, sixteen hours of mentorship made up of eight meetings taking place over the course of a year. That works for us. For other projects, we will offer different lengths of mentorship. A play might need as much time, a sitcom pilot will need less, a storytelling project would depend entirely on the project.

Our mentors are all highly experienced, highly skilled and have a long and proven track record of bringing work to page, stage, screen or radio. They will primarily focus on the work itself, but you will be able to ask their professional advice as part of your sessions.

The meetings will be either personal or online, by arrangement. The fee will be the same.

Fee

The basic fee, as with Gold Dust, will be £4,350 (plus VAT in the case of some of our authors) for the standard book mentorship, and we will scale up and down from that. Your contract will be with your Mentor. Listen & Often is just providing the introduction, as it were.