Now that the mentorship has wrapped up, I appreciate even more how much of a driving force it was in my writing in the first part of this year. It was the external motivation I needed to keep going and develop a story to an extent I hadn’t previously thought possible. It gave me the opportunity to pursue fiction writing more seriously than I’ve ever done before, and made me feel more confident that it was a pursuit that I should continue with.

Mitra Thompson, participant in the 2018 Mentorship Program