NAWE Member Meet-Up / June 2024 (Online)
Region: International
Our next online NAWE Members Meet-Up on Wednesday 12th June 2024 will be a chance to share updates on our writing work and to find out what other NAWE Members are up to.
Raw Writing Memoir Bootcamp Five-Day Intensive Course (Online - Zoom)
Region: International
Memoir is no longer the preserve of the rich and famous. We can all write about our life. If you’re keen to write your memoir, join me on this five-day course and learn all you need to get started. I’ll cover memory and truth, how to write about other people, setting, structure and more.
Wise stories with Anna Morvern
Region: International
Grandchild of Jewish Hasidism’s founder, Nahman from Uman wrote creative folktales and parables with life guidance. Over a year, we’ll read around/into these wise stories, letting them inspire writing exercises. Sunday evenings, Zoom & WhatsApp, from 2 June 2024, with Anna Morvern.
Deinstitutionalise your writing
Region: International
A workshop for anyone who feels that their writing & relationship with it has been disciplined/harmed/cowed/constricted by institutional encounters: be these via early school experiences, professional mores, parental judgment or any other kind of structural bad vibes.
SciFi and Horror Workshop Series with Sarah Jackson
Region: International
Three affordable online workshops exploring monsters, aliens, and robots in science fiction and horror. Together we'll read extracts from classic and contemporary authors and then use writing games and prompts to create our own vivid and unique creatures, extraterrestrials, and synthetic beings. Come to all three or choose the ones you're most interested in. Join online to find writing ideas and inspiration, try new techniques, and generate story seeds.
The Writers Bureau’s Poetry Club
Region: International
Led by WB’s poetry tutor, Mandy Pannett, members have the chance to explore and develop their poetry writing skills. It is a place to kick-start and develop your poems with constructive feedback from your poetry peers.
Reflect, Reset, Reconnect for Writers
Region: International
Spark ideas and explore new perspectives in this professional development workshop for writers. You’ll get the chance to play with a range of reflective and creative techniques to help support any aspect of your writing life.
Nottingham Trent University Summer School 2024
Region: East Midlands
The creative writing short courses at NTU will introduce you to the ins and outs and twists and turns of putting pen to paper, whether for personal pleasure or professional development.
Poetry School: Poetic Theft: From Inspiration to Transformation with Louis Glazzard
Region: International
A transformative workshop series about harnessing your inspirations to expand your writing.
Professional Writing Academy: Running Writing Workshops with Anne Taylor and Victoria Field
Region: International
Run effective writing workshops. This professional development course provides you with the skills and confidence required to run successful writing workshops.
City Lit: Writing black out poetry with Sarah Westcott
Region: London
Sometimes a poem is shaped by stripping words away. This fun day workshop explores the emerging form of black out poetry. Learn how to find hidden poems in texts such as newspaper articles, advertisements and letters.
Gladstone's Library Masterclass: Archives as Inspiration: a Day with Novelist Sarah Smith
Region: Wales
Do you feel drawn to historical fiction, but don’t know where to start? Are you drawn to your own family history, but baffled about how to go about the task of putting the information together? Then this day masterclass with novelist Sarah Smith is for you.
WordPath Scotland: Focus: Creative Writing Mentoring Day (Online)
Region: International
Have a novel or short story collection that needs that extra push to get it to the finish line? A creative non-fiction or memoir project that you long to see published? Maybe you simply want the focused attention and feedback a Mentoring course offers in order to gain greater confidence and trust in your own work?
Ty Newydd: Food Writing: Experiencing the Self and World Anew with Angela Hui & Rebecca May Johnson
Region: Wales
Join us for this weekend course where you’ll learn to add spice, flavour, and substance to your writing. During the course, you’ll explore different forms of food writing – from memoir to cookbook, from newsletters to journalism.
Moniack Mhor: Nature and Poetry with Alycia Pirmohamed and Genevieve Carver, Guest Reader Tim Tim Cheng
Region: Scotland
Intersections of Experience and Nature: Inspired by the nature around us including the Highland landscapes of Moniack Mhor, we’ll look at how environment, place and wildlife can inform our poetry.
Arvon and Quay Words Fiction Writing Day in Exeter
Region: South West England
Do you have a fiction writing project that needs attention? Perhaps you need some technical help or are curious about navigating the industry in general? Join bestselling writer Clare Chambers and editor Alexa von Hirschberg at Exeter Custom House for an intensive creative writing workshop focused on writing fiction.
Spread the Word: London Writers Network Event: TikTok for Writers
Region: London
Starting out on TikTok or curious to know what it's like to be a BookToker? Join us for an evening on all things TikTok with prize-winning spoken word poet Priyanka Moorjani and debut author Anam Iqbal. These two established BookTokers will share their insights into how they develop content for the app and how you could make the most of it as a reader and a writer.
More The Poetry Business online workshops this summer
Region: International
The Poetry Business has a whole host of exciting online workshops lined up this summer with Greta Stoddart, Romalyn Ante, Jonathan Edwards , River Wolton, Christopher Wakling, Laurie Bolger and many more.
Free tickets! See Anne Michaels deliver the Wanda Barford Memorial Lecture at the RSA
Region: London
Join the Royal Society of Literature on Monday 20 May at 7pm for an unmissable evening with novelist and poet Anne Michaels whose books are translated into more than fifty languages and have won multiple awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Lannan Award for Fiction. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.
Collaborative Poetry Improvisation Workshops
Region: London
Discover the world of collaborative poetry improvisation in three workshops with Robin Vaughan-Williams.