J L Hall - writer, teacher, mentor
J L Hall is a Scottish writer, teacher, mentor, and editor living in Portobello on Edinburgh's coast. Her features, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry are published in print, broadcast on the BBC, and can be found online, and in podcasts. She is an international prize-winning travel writer, and has been finalist in several national writing prizes.
Her writing is published in print including 24 Stories, Tempest, A Narrative Map, AM Heath/TLC Reads, Rebel Alliance, Surfing, To Whom It May Concern, A Wild and Precious Life, Prototype:3, Intrinsic, and Dreich/The Joy of Living, plus The Bookseller, and broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland. Her writing can also be found online at Women Writers, Women's Books, Imustbeoff.com, and Full House Literary Magazine, and in The Mechanics’ Institute Review and Alternative Stories podcasts.
With over twenty years of Higher Education and adult education teaching experience, her writing courses and workshops are supportive, encouraging, and inspiring, and she aims for them to be as accessible and inclusive as possible. They are carefully designed to build her students' confidence, develop their writing craft, and boost their creativity.
J L Hall delivers private workshops online and in venues, and delivers community creative writing programmes on behalf of Scottish Book Trust's Live Literature fund. Should you wish to also book J L Hall via this fund, please click here.
During and following her courses, former students have had writing featured in Mslexia, The London Reader, The Common Breath, Clover and White Literary magazine, and The Ogilvie Review. From these successes, students have progressed to be working on their own book proposals and pitches, have their pieces read in performance, and have signed book deals.
When she is not writing, or helping others to write, J L Hall works part-time as an academic, and nurtures herself with beachcombing, painting, and photographing the natural world.
J L Hall posts regularly as @jlhallwriter on both Twitter and Instagram.