Work in Progress is a unique critical assessment scheme for writers that provides free, impartial, anonymous, critical feed-back on work in progress.

Work in Progress provides writers with an assessment report on their work completed by one of a specially selected panel of Scotland’s major writers and agents including, where appropriate, feed-back on potential markets and publishing opportunities.

Work in Progress is open to writers of fiction, poetry, screenplays (for film and TV) and non-fiction for adults and children, writing in English, Scots or Gaelic, living in the Highlands and Islands region of Scotland. Work in Progress is free of charge to use, and writers can usually expect to receive their assessment report back within four weeks of submission. However at times when the project is being more heavily used, the response times might be longer.

Full guidance notes, terms and conditions are available for download at the bottom of this page. Please read these carefully as the guidelines for different genres do vary.