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Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall

Royal Literary Fund

This is a free, confidential service to help you improve your writing skills. Students of any discipline, at any level of study (from 1st year to postgraduate) – and staff – are welcome to book a session.

The Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow is a professional, published author whose role is to help you strengthen your writing.

Sign up for a one-to-one tutorial to help you:

  • Plan your study time.
  • Express your ideas more clearly.
  • Answer grammar and punctuation questions.
  • Discover reading to improve your writing and editing skills.
  • Increase your writing skills with the aim of improving your grades.
  • Improve any academic writing – essays, reports, theses, dissertations, book chapters.

Sessions are normally on Thursdays or Fridays for 50 minutes, face-to-face on campus. Email Roz on roz.watkins@rlfeducation.org.uk and you’ll get an auto response with information on how to book a session.

Please note that RLF Writing Fellows do not undertake proofreading or EAP tuition.

Roz Watkins is a crime writer, author of a detective series set in the Peak District and a standalone thriller, The Red House, one of the Times ‘best books of summer 2023’. Her first book, The Devil’s Dice, was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger award, and was the Times crime book of the month.

Roz lives in Falmouth with her extremely demanding cats. She enjoys walking in the countryside looking for murder locations and sea-swimming when the weather allows. She’s also a big fan of drinking coffee and eating cake while planning her next novel, a Cornwall-based thriller.

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Roz Watkins

RLF Writing Fellow