National Novel Writing Month is over but there are many outlets that you can channel your creative skills into with the Emirates Literature Foundation. Costa Debate is still open for entries by answering Fact vs Fiction and the Montegrappa Writing Prize if you want to write something longer. Montegrappa winner and co-host Rachel Hamilton gives us her top tips for winning entries.

We’re also chatting to Ranya AbdulRahman about the new The Love of Words majlis happening with Emirates Literature Foundation. The first event is Talking Translation, a light-hearted look at literary translation and the highs and lows as well as the key steps into the profession.

If you want to unleash your inner Ibsen, you can take a nine-week course on playwriting with world renowned playwright Alex Broun. He talks about what you can expect once you enroll and how you can have a chance to read your play to an audience at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.