Our 2025 Yearbooks are here, and to mark the 118th edition of the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook and the 21st anniversary edition of...
Identifying Your Audience
The most important task an artist or illustrator has is to create. Forging a career, however, does require you to sell work and identifying an audience really is key to this. This selection of articles concentrates on how to think about who your work is aimed at and how you can make them aware of it.
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17th July 2024
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26th September 2023
In keeping with Pen to Print’s vision that everybody should have the chance to tell their story and inspire potential in others, we welcome new...
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24th May 2023
Opening up to the world, putting words onto paper is hard. I spent half my life with no qualifications – unsure whether I could actually write. In...
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21st July 2022
In this extract from her article inside the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2023, Felicity Cloake, a multi-award-winning freelance journalist,...
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22nd June 2021
Over the years I’ve struggled with this question, finding it impossible to judge my own work. Adept at knowing when someone else’s manuscript hits...
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23rd December 2020
Freelance illustrator Frances Moffatt describes her route into professional non-fiction illustration and gives practical advice for aspiring...