About the Writing Community

Welcome to the Transition Tradition Writing Community

2 December 2008

The Transition Tradition writing community brings together articles, interviews, resources, events and news for anyone with an interest in developing their writing practice or building a career as a writer. You can meet other emerging and more established writers in our forums and also contribute your own work for publication here at Transition Tradition.

Latest Writing Articles

Finding Your Feet In Fleet Street

2 April 2009

After work experience stints on The Times and The Observer I can report, not only tales of social awkwardness but of publishing success.

How to Get Your Writing Published

2 April 2009

Freelance journalism can be both lucrative and rewarding, plus you get to work in your pyjamas or in coffee shops, or both if you're feeling brave. It's also highly competitive, and a lot of writers spend large chunks of their time pitching for work.

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If you think it's impossible then you are wrong, I began writing commercially...

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This is a new forum and a new topic - all in all a momentous day! And what better way to begin the Writing Community Forum than with a topic which gets to the heart of the challenge for new writers - to earn or not to earn!

Sadly for most of us it is the latter but lets here from some of you who manage the alchemy and get paid for writing...

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Latest Writing Interviews

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work; Interview with Alain de Botton

18 June 2009

Alain de Botton is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a 'philosophy of everyday life.' He's written on love, travel, architecture and literature.

In Conversation with Author and Lecturer Paul MacDonald

7 December 2008

Not many academics can saddle a horse, let alone make said saddle. But then Paul McDonald has followed a refreshingly different path into academia.

Latest Writing Community Reviews

The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets

07/12/2008 - 14:10

The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets is a landmark collection not only because it catalogues the achievement of Indian poets over the twentieth-century,