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Centre for Learning and Study Support (CLaSS): Royal Literary Fund Fellow: Develop your writing with a professional writer

Improve your academic writing

A free, confidential service to help you

improve your writing skills

 

Our Royal Literary Fund Fellow for 25/26 is Susannah Pearse.

Susannah Pearse is a writer and composer working mainly in theatre and radio. She has co-written musical adaptations of Around the World in 80 Days, A Christmas Carol and Treasure Island (all for the Octagon theatre in Bolton) as well as two musicals for the radio, Hall of Mirrors (BBC Radio 3) and an adaptation of Rossum’s Universal Robots (BBC Radio 4). She is now bringing her expertise in writing to support everyone here in the DMU community. Welcome Susannah!

Meet Susannah Pearse, your RLF Writing Tutor

About RLFF Writing Tutorials

DMU students on any course, at any level of study (from 1st year to postgraduate) – and staff – are welcome to book a session.

Susannah Pearse, our Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow for 2025/26, is a professional writer who is not employed by the university and whose role is to help you strengthen your writing.

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

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

Sessions are for 50 minutes. Susannah will be available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Contact Susannah via email to arrange a time on one of the days she is available and you will be sent a link for the tutorial:  Susannah.pearse@rlfeducation.org.uk

Please note that RLF Writing Fellows do not undertake proofreading or English language tuition and will not comment on creative writing.

About Susannah's support