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Writing Fiction for Women’s Magazines
This starter writing course aims to provide you with all the key tools to create a tight, lively and, above all, saleable short story for this key market. It will also offer 'insider' tips and full details of what all the major magazines are looking for to help you acheive publishing success.


Advanced Story Structure
Aimed at those with some experience, this more advanced writing workshop will help you hone your fiction writing skills and grab any editor's attention. With extensive group and individual feedback, it will explore short story techniques in more detail and look at how to target specific magazines and genres. Perfect for anyone determined to see their writing in print.


Sample Published Stories
Time Tricks - A 1000-word Women's Weekly story with a slight twist in the tail about an exhausted young mother...click to download.

In The Still of the Night - A 1600-word My Weekly story about a number of
different women looking out on the same night ...click to download.


With a Little Help From Heaven - a classic 2500-word 'People's Friend'
romance....click to download

Come along to one of the Joanna Barnden
courses on writing fiction...

With my novel going out to publishers in the new year I'm afraid I am keeping my course programme limited.

However I am pleased to announce that I will be running an updated

Writing Fiction for Women's Magazines

in the Midlands this Spring – Friday March 9th

Click here for further details about the course.

Joanna Barnden Fiction Writer