1 Day Masterclass: Be Your Own Editor with Kit de Waal

Be Your Own Editor 

In this masterclass, Kit de Waal will help you look at your work with fresh eyes.  This course is for anyone who wants to know how to be author, reader, editor and re-reader and learn the techniques to bring their work alive from first draft through to the finished article. 

• Kit de Waal is an adjudicator for The Kerry Group Novel of The Year 2024.

Please be aware that all events at Listowel Writers' Week will be recorded and photographed for promotional and archival purposes. Your presence constitutes consent to be filmed and photographed. Thank you.

More about Kit de Waal

Kit de Waal, born to an Irish mother and Caribbean father, was brought up among the

Irish community of Birmingham in the ‘60s and ‘70s.

Her debut novel My Name Is Leon was an international bestseller, shortlisted for the

Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the Kerry

Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for 2017. In 2022 it was adapted for television by

the BBC.

Her second novel, The Trick to Time, was longlisted for the Women's Prize and her

young adult novel Becoming Dinah was shortlisted for the Carnegie CLIP Award 2020.

A collection of short stories, Supporting Cast was published in 2020. An anthology of

working-class memoir, Common People was crowdfunded and edited by Kit in 2019.

Kit founded her own TV production company, Portopia Productions and the Big Book

Weekend, a free digital literary festival in 2020 and was named the FutureBook Person

of the Year 2019. She is a patron of Prisoners Abroad, ambassador of Well-being in the

Arts and a trustee of The Reading Agency.

Kit is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor and Jean Humphreys

Writer in Residence at Leicester University.

Her memoir Without Warning and Only Sometimes was published in August 2022