Introducing

The results of the Writers-of-the-Year Competition 2008 are now available on the Competitions page.

Sue Hubbard and Mario Petrucci regret that owing to the cessation of the annual Arts Council London grant to as from the beginning of April 2008 it will be impossible for this organisation to run the normal creative writing programme during the coming year. All the arrangements for the Competition will however remain as they stand at the moment with the closing date for entries on Monday 14 April, announcements of winners in July, and a Winners evening at the Barbican Library in the City of London on Wednesday 8th October.

Now in its 15th year is a London-based organisation which exists to provide a forum for writers to develop their skills. Through day and weekend residential workshops aims to give opportunities to aspiring writers of any age, background and experience to benefit from high quality tutoring from the founders of , Sue Hubbard and Mario Petrucci, and guests.

Mario Petrucci is an ecologist, physicist, voice trainer, songwriter, Arvon tutor and poetic innovator. He is the only poet to have been in residence at the Imperial War Museum and is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. Recognised as one of the country's leading exponents of public/site specific poetry, he continues to attract major awards for his work: including the Bridport, The London Writers (three times), the Silver Wyvern Award, the New London Writers Award, the Arts Council Writers' Award, and the Daily Telegraph/Arvon Prize which he won with Heavy Water, a book-length poem on Chernobyl (Enitharmon 2004), described by Jackie Kay as "Heartfelt, ambitious and alive" in The Daily Telegraph. Mario Petrucci has recently been poet in residence at BBC Radio 3. Visit Mario Petrucci's website.

Sue Hubbard is a freelance art critic, novelist and poet. Twice winner of the London Writers competition she was the Poetry Society's first-ever Public Art Poet when she created site-specific poems under the Poetry Places Scheme in Birmingham's jewellery quarter. She was also commissioned by the Arts Council and the BFI to create London's biggest public art poem that leads from Waterloo to the IMAX. Her first collection, Everything Begins with the Skin, was published by Enitharmon in 1994.A number of her poems appeared in Oxford Poets 2000 published by Carcanet. Depth of Field, her first novel, was published in 2000. John Berger called it a "remarkable first novel." She was recently writer-in-residence at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill. Sue writes a regular column in The Independent. Her latest collection Ghost Station (Salt Publishing) was published in 2004. Visit Sue Hubbard's website