Events

Wed 19 May 2021 to Mon 19 May 2025

The Prompt Box is our creative writing prompt subscription service. Each month you’ll receive unique, creative, and inspiring writing prompts all wrapped up and delivered to your door. We’ll also email a PDF workbook each month to help you get the most from the prompts. Our Prompt Boxes will help you write fiction and non-fiction, or you can use them to write poetry. Read more...

Wed 21 Sep 2022 to Tue 31 Dec 2024

We are a friendly Creative Writing Group for everyone at any level of their writing. We write fiction, nonfiction, and poems. We encourage and strengthen each other’s writing by using discussions, videos, articles, and sharing in the group. Read more...

Wed 30 Aug 2023 to Wed 31 Dec 2025

Start your story with NCW Academy, the home for creative writers. NCW Academy creative writing courses, workshops and mentoring are delivered by award-winning tutors, authors and industry experts. Whether you’re just starting out or you’re an experienced writer taking the next step in your career, they have a programme to provide structure and support for you to achieve your writing goals. Read more...

Wed 13 Sep 2023 to Mon 7 Jul 2025

This unique Masters (MSc) with Metanoia Institute London, accredited by Middlesex University, is for people fascinated by writing and its many applications. Study part-time at weekends (7 live online and 3 in person in Bristol UK per year). Read more...

Mon 25 Sep 2023 to Fri 27 Sep 2024

Looking for a flexible postgraduate degree? Places are available for part-time and full-time study on the new MA Creative & Critical Writing at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU). Read more...

Wed 11 Oct 2023 to Wed 10 Jul 2024

This higher-level course has been designed for writers who have completed either the Creative Writing Programme, an undergraduate or a masters programme in creative writing, or who have work in progress and can show they are capable of discussing the creative process and participating in workshops at an advanced level. Monthly from October 2023 to July 2024. Read more...

Fri 20 Oct 2023 to Tue 29 Jul 2025

The Wonderland Theatre Book Club is a lively online Book Club for writers and artists who want to ignite their potential by reading important plays together. Every Tuesday fortnight, we share ‘Challenges’ we have written in response to the ‘prompt’ of this classic play. Read more...

Mon 20 Nov 2023 to Mon 17 Jun 2024

Are you reaching the stage with your writing project where you need some constructive feedback? Would you like some help getting your manuscript finished and taking the next steps towards publication? If you want regular feedback, support, and a group of writers with whom to discuss good writing every month, these sessions are for you. Read more...

Mon 18 Dec 2023 to Mon 17 Jun 2024

This latest Writer's Imaginarium is a six month editorial programme for writers, of any genre, with a first draft of a body of work, looking for a new and supportive community alongside whom to edit this fresh piece of writing. Read more...

Wed 10 Jan 2024 to Sun 8 Dec 2024

Do you have a story you’re burning to tell? Would you love to write a script, and hear it read by professional actors? Following our sold out 2021, 2022 and 2023 courses, we are very pleased to again be offering this year-long programme, facilitated by two professional writers, which will enable you to explore and develop your skills as a writer for both the stage and the screen.  Read more...

Tue 16 Jan 2024 to Tue 30 Apr 2024

The Spring 2024 programme from Cath Drake's The Verandah features writing workshops and poetry masterclasses with Poetry & Mindfulness starting soon. Read more...

Sat 27 Jan 2024 to Sat 28 Dec 2024

If you keep finding reasons not to write your book, then this is the course for you! With one session per month for a year, you will be guided through the whole process, from turning your idea into a workable structure, to progressing, chapter-by-chapter, dealing with setbacks along the way.  Read more...

Sat 3 Feb 2024 to Sat 11 May 2024

Following the success of our inaugural podcasting course, Sounds Good is back with a wealth of activities for writers and producers next Spring. Online and in-person at Northumbria University, Newcastle. Read more...

Mon 5 Feb 2024 to Mon 29 Jul 2024

If you’re a committed aspiring poet hoping to take your writing to the next level, join Maurice Riordan and Richard Scott for this six-month course at the home of British poetry.  Read more...

Mon 5 Feb 2024 to Mon 3 Jun 2024

A monthly class for movers or poets in need of support developing their sound and movement poetry. Read more...

Mon 12 Feb 2024 to Mon 29 Apr 2024

Do you want to tell your own story? Looking for a high quality, in-depth writing course that will provide you with the tools and techniques for writing a compelling memoir? Read more...

Mon 12 Feb 2024 to Mon 17 Jun 2024

Book your place on a comprehensive, flexible online tutored creative writing course from National Centre for Writing, designed in partnership with the University of East Anglia, starting Monday 12 February 2024.  Read more...

Tue 13 Feb 2024 to Tue 23 Jul 2024

Towards an Experimental Ecology of Line is an intra-disciplinary, online workshop designed for artists, musicians, performers, poets, writers and thinkers working across & between forms who want some structured time to explore the ecological dimensions of their creative-critical practice. Read more...

Mon 4 Mar 2024 to Mon 10 Jun 2024

A friendly and interactive series of masterclasses for writers who want to explore craft and process in writing while learning about the business of publishing. Read more...

Mon 4 Mar 2024 to Fri 13 Dec 2024

We are delighted to launch Dy Bennod Nesaf – Your Next Chapter, our new programme of creative writing courses and retreats at Ty Newydd Writing Centre to help bring your stories and ideas to life in 2024. Read more...

Thu 7 Mar 2024 to Thu 23 May 2024

This six-week course uses setting – place and time – as a starting point for writing compelling short stories. Rather than beginning with characters and their problems, we will look at the conflicts which settings provide, including social, cultural and physical, and use those to ‘people’ the story.  Read more...

Thu 7 Mar 2024 to Thu 2 May 2024

Entering writing competitions is great fun and brilliant for building up your writer’s CV if you get placed. Join this eight-week course where, at the end of it, you’ll have a 5000 word short story that you can be proud of, and is competition ready. Choose from afternoon or evening sessions. Read more...

Mon 11 Mar 2024 to Mon 30 Sep 2024

Serious about writing but don’t have the time to commit to an MA? Our online courses at the New Writing North Academy are the perfect solution for serious writers with full time jobs, caring responsibilities, and full lives in whatever form that may take. Read more...

Mon 18 Mar 2024 to Mon 16 Sep 2024

Six one-hour sessions of 1:1 coaching in-person with Write Within's Julia Forster at the Poetry Pharmacy once a month, on the third Monday of the month, from March – September 2024 (excluding August). Apply by 29 February 2024. Read more...

Mon 18 Mar 2024 to Sat 14 Dec 2024

Have you booked this year's place at The Garsdale Retreat yet? There are still some places available to book on a variety of courses and untutored retreats. Read more...

Wed 20 Mar 2024 to Thu 2 May 2024

Start your day with a burst of creativity! This spring, the Write & Shine is about size and scale, shape and structure. We'll be inspired by the new shapes we see in the springtime landscape, as tiny buds blossom and leaves unfurl to face the sun. Read more...

Mon 25 Mar 2024 to Sun 29 Sep 2024

Ireland Writing Retreat marks its tenth anniversary with a programme of exciting writing retreats in Paris and Ireland in 2024. Read more...

Wed 27 Mar 2024 to Wed 5 Jun 2024

Amplify your creative practice with Write Club Plus. In our 3-month advanced group coaching programme, come together with like-minded writers working seriously towards individual writing goals who want to make tangible progress with their writing with the support of their peers. Read more...

Sat 6 Apr 2024 to Sat 4 May 2024

In addition to our Summer programme this year, we are running a series of exciting Easter courses tutored by fresh voices from The New Poets Collective. Read more...

Mon 8 Apr 2024 to Thu 2 May 2024

From Inkling to Impact: conceive, craft, and publish your true stories with multi-award-winning journalist and author, Puja Changoiwala. Read more...