I signed up for the mentor course as I felt I needed a bit more help with my journalism career.

Since then I have had work published in several magazines and newspapers, and forged a link with a press agency that feeds national newspapers and magazines.

I signed up for the programme as l felt I needed a bit more help with my journalism career.

Cleland really pushed me out of my comfort zone and encouraged me to contact a new weekly paper in my hometown.

He suggested I call in to introduce myself to the editor and take in a story that I had written. I was shaking. I thought that at any minute the editor would realise I was not a real writer.

But the paper was happy to print this story and many more over the following months.

Since then, I have had work published in several magazines and newspapers and forged a link with a press agency that feeds national newspapers and magazines.

One story of mine made it to the Sun Online, the Daily Mail Online and The Times.

You are never too old to get your work in print with the right teacher … Cleland Thom.

See our career mentoring course | Return to home page