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Updated: 17 March 2025

I email my list every now and then with a summary of the news and advance notice of special offers. If you’d like to be one of the first in the know, click here.

Planning to use Scrivener to write a play? Book your place on this workshop:

Hope Cove Writers’ Retreats

3-6 April 2025 & 13-16 November 2025

Book now for 2025. Booking your accommodation ahead of time is essential.

  • Needing time away from everyday life, to make progress on a writing project?
  • Looking for good company, fellow writers, to help you to find your muse?
  • Excited by the prospect of a few days of unadulterated writing?

The Hope Cove Writers’ Retreat Weekend is designed for you!

Places limited to 12. Full details here.

RedPen Mentoring

If you are mid-project, or about to embark on something new, and are looking for an accountability buddy, a mentor, a friend who will pull you through the tricky bits – then RedPen Mentoring might be for you.

All RedPen Mentoring is provided by me, Anne Rainbow.

Not sure if I’d be the right mentor for you?

Book a free 30-minute call.

How much does it cost? What do you get for your money?

For further details of what’s available, at what price, click here.

RedPen Editing

Keen to start editing?

You are welcome to join the RedPen Path forum where I post an editing tip every day ….

And you can learn all about my RedPen Editing cycle in my book: Editing the RedPen Way: 10 steps to successful self-editing.

Click here for details.

And my courses are available in my Shop.

SIMPLY SCRIVENER SPECIALS

For one-on-one help, book a 30-minute Zoom session with me via the RedPen Shop.

The recording of your one-on-one meeting will be available only to you. This is managed through a FaceBook group for just the two of us. After our session, you are welcome to ask further questions through that FB group.

Further details of how to book a Simply Scrivener Special session and what’s provided are here.

Dates for your diary

RedPen WRITE-INS on Zoom

Each write-in last 60 minutes.
Two 25-min writing sessions:
Hello + Declare intentions + Write + How’s it going + Write + Bye
Free to attend … write among friends.

Full programme of sessions here.

Artists on Air

 

 

 

 

 

Join the Rainbow On The Radio FB group for full details, to share details of artist dates you are promoting and to suggest questions I should put to my guest(s).

2025 Programme of guests

Jane Rayner

  • 31 Mar Jane Rayner
  • 28 April Kerry Hadley-Pryce
  • Guests TBA: 26 May (Bank Holiday), 23 June, 21 July, 18 August, 15 September, 13 October, 10 November, 8 December

PLAYBACK links

2025:  6 Jan Patsy Collins; 3 Feb Robert Garnham; 3 Mar Brenda Loosemore

2024: 20 May Christine Cooke; 17 June Nigel Grist
15 July Vicky Hadland; 9 September Stephen Baird; 7 Oct Maggie Smith
4 Nov Paul Dodgson; 2 Dec Sir Denis Pereira Gray OBE;

WEDNESDAY WRITERS ONLINE

Zoom workshops hosted by Anne Rainbow, and presented by novelist Dr Kerry Hadley-Pryce, lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at Wolverhampton University.

Remaining topics for the Spring Term (full details here)

Remaining Dates for 2025

  • Summer: 7 May, 4 June, 2 July, 30 July
  • Autumn: 10 September, 8 October, 5 November, 3 December

10am-1pm UK time. £35/class or £120 for a term of 4 Zoom workshops. Full details here.

TALKING SHOP

16 April 2025: 3.30-6pm

Zoom meetings hosted by me, an opportunity to discuss the pros/cons of self-publishing and to share experiences to date. Join the Facebook group here where we share information and support each other in our publishing journey.

Next meeting: focusing on online opportunities for publication: Medium, Substact …

NEW: ScrivenerVirgin Gift Card

ScrivenerVirgin gifts cards are now available! Click here to purchase an amount to suit (£10-£100 and multiples thereof). Gift cards can then be set against any of the products in my shop, including