Mentoring application

Cinnamon Pencil: Online Application

Applying to Cinnamon Pencil to mentor in 2025 is simple.

We have a rolling programme of mentoring rather than fixed dates and will be reading for work beginning in late February-early March up to the end of January 2025.

Please upload 4 documents: your contact details, plus:

A synopsis:

Tells us the outline of the work you’d like to mentor. This document should be no more than 500 words long.

An extract:

Give us a flavour of your writing by sending part of the work to be mentored. Prose writers should submit up to 10,000 words of their novel, memoire, or short stories. Poets please send up to 15 poems from your collection/pamphlet.

And a personal statement:

Tell us a little about yourself, your writing and why you want to mentor with Cinnamon Pencil. Up to 500 words.

N.B. Please send your documents as PDF files. We cannot accept paper submissions to the scheme and the site security system will not accept .doc or other formats.

Sadly, we cannot give feedback on unsuccessful applications.

We’ll take a look at your application and get back to you as soon as we can, usually from January through to mid February.

There is no closing date, but to be considered to beging in late February/March 2025 let us have your documents by the end of January 2025.

Thank you for your interest in Cinnamon Pencil and for entrusting us with your work. And good luck!