LONDON WRITERS’ CLUB LIVE WITH an AGENT
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Join us at our LWC LIVE MONTHLY ONLINE EVENT. The live Zoom events are a friendly chat with a leading literary agent and Jacq Burns.
27 October 6:00pm – 7:30pm
LWC Live with Marina Gask, Press Consultant and Media Strategist
Journalist and former health commissioning editor at the Telegraph, Marina Gask is a press consultant and media strategist who helps position entrepreneurs, authors and leaders as experts in their field through media profile, thought leadership strategy and press coaching at marinagask.co.uk.
What’s unique about Marina? She thinks in headlines and can spot your press potential a mile off. Apart from editing magazines and writing for newspapers, her CV includes teaching journalism at Goldsmiths and London Metropolitan University, copywriting for solopreneurs and multinationals, running media workshops for charities like Joseph Rowntree Trust and editing customer magazines like John Lewis Edition.
Marina was on staff at Cosmopolitan, Glamour and SHE, and author of three books for teenagers in the 1990s. Nowadays she writes for a range of broadsheets and glossies covering health, psychology, work, family and relationships. She was named one of the f:entrepreneur #ialso Top 100 female entrepreneurs in 2020, and British Society of Magazine Editors Women’s Magazine Editor of the Year in 1996. In February 2027 she is launching The Press Room, a space for ambitious people to learn how to get noticed by the media, and Meet The Experts, a platform to share their stories.
Jacq Burns was commissioning editor at Random House & Editorial Director at Harper Collins where she edited classics such as Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus, Who Moved My Cheese, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Toddler Taming – which have sold millions of copies.
She is the author of Write a Bestseller, published by Hodder, and a bestselling series of successful books for Random House, under a pseudonym. Jacq has also ghostwritten a number of well-known titles, co-founder of The London Writers Club and is Head Judge for the Business Book Awards. She is also a literary agent for authors.
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2026 Events – live on zoom with Jacq Burns and a guest agent or author.
27 October – Marina Gask, Press Consultant and Media Strategist
17 November – Guest Agent
8 December – VIP Members Christmas Event