The author is supporting the Killer Women mentoring programme saying she knows how hard it is to be unknown
JK Rowling has backed a new scheme aimed at discovering female crime writers from black, Asian, minority ethnic (BAME) and working-class backgrounds, hoping that it will help “open doors to new and as yet undiscovered voices in crime fiction”.
Killer Women, an author collective of 20 female crime writers, opens its new mentoring scheme on Wednesday for unpublished women from under-represented backgrounds who want to write crime or thriller novels. Entrants must submit a synopsis and sample chapters of their writing and the four winners will receive mentoring and support from writers including the award-winning Jane Casey, author of the Maeve Kerrigan series, and Emma Kavanagh, a police and military psychologist turned crime author.
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