Workshop: Make Your Own Literary Luck with Sue Divin
‘The harder I work, the luckier
I get.’ – Samuel Goldwyn
Is getting a traditional publication deal
just about pure luck? Can you make your
own luck? This course, whilst useful for all
writers, is ideal for emerging prose, novel
or short story writers aiming to publish
their writing.
just about pure luck? Can you make your
own luck? This course, whilst useful for all
writers, is ideal for emerging prose, novel
or short story writers aiming to publish
their writing.
Through discussion and activities,
this course aims to help writers to be
purposeful, focused and active in working
to breakthrough. It covers two key areas:
this course aims to help writers to be
purposeful, focused and active in working
to breakthrough. It covers two key areas:
1. Connect, submit, compete:
How to get your writing noticed.
2. Polish until it shines:
How to lift your work to the next level
through self-editing, mentoring and
pitching.
through self-editing, mentoring and
pitching.
Sue Divin is a Derry-based writer with
Armagh roots. She has published two
YA/crossover novels, and another is due to
be published in 2026. Carnegie-shortlisted
Guard Your Heart, a ‘Romeo and Juliet set
in Derry 2016’, won the Great Reads Award
Ireland, and Truth Be Told, ‘Parent-trap meets
Derry Girls’, was shortlisted for the Irish
Book Awards.
Armagh roots. She has published two
YA/crossover novels, and another is due to
be published in 2026. Carnegie-shortlisted
Guard Your Heart, a ‘Romeo and Juliet set
in Derry 2016’, won the Great Reads Award
Ireland, and Truth Be Told, ‘Parent-trap meets
Derry Girls’, was shortlisted for the Irish
Book Awards.
