A Sense of Place at The Biscuit Factory with Amanda Quinn
Region: North East England
Discover the importance of place in your writing with experienced writer and tutor, Amanda Quinn. Whether you’re writing about real or fantasy worlds, you’ll learn how to create and describe settings in vivid detail. You’ll explore how settings interact with characters and how they can set the mood of a piece of writing.
Hermit Crabs as Queer Forms
Region: International
How do we relate to the containers and structures we live with(in)? How do they change us, and how do we change them? What contradictions come to light when we examine the ways we seek to make home? This four-week course offers space and provocation to write into these questions through a focus on hermit crab essays and their limits & possibilities as queer forms.
Manchester Experimental Poetry and Arts Festival 2025
Region: North West England
Join us for the inaugural Manchester Experimental Poetry and Arts Festival on 17 May 2025 from 1–6 pm at Centenary Gardens, Manchester (M16 9QE). Free entry.
Write What You Know: Characterisation
Region: International
A one-hour online Zoom workshop exploring how to craft authentic, nuanced fictional human beings using a little (ethical) identity theft...
New Writing North: Stories from Life with Richard Benson
Region: International
Do you want to share your experiences and memories, and write powerful stories that people love reading? Would you like to express yourself in a way that means people get to read about the events, places and communities that mean something to you?
Poetry Technique Masterclass Webinars - 3 session series
Region: International
Nine Arches Press poets will lead 3 x 1 hour webinars exploring poetry techniques from traditional form, line breaks and rhythm and using punctuation (or not) in poetry. Monday evenings in June: 9th, 16th and 23rd, 7pm-8pm BST. All 3 sessions for just £45.
Poetry School: Fourteen Lines, Myriad Methods: Experimental Sonnet Studio with James Davies
Region: International
‘Doesn’t sound like no sonnet, my lord’. Sonneteering has proved to be the most popular form of poetry over the last 500 years or so. The twentieth and twenty-first century has seen its reinvention time and time again in staggering ways, suggesting there are no end to the possibilities it has to offer.
Summer term of verse: 7 weekly writing workshops & open mic trip
Region: London
verse is a queer-led creative writing group designed to improve your craft, overcome writer’s block and nourish your creative wellbeing with award-winning poet and playwright, Toby Campion. For complete beginners & experienced writers looking to re-invigorate their practice.
Rebecca Swift Foundation: Women Poets' Webinar - Fusion Poets
Region: UK
Part of the Rebecca Swift Foundation’s two-year By Poets, For Poets programme, these webinars are designed to support women poets at all stages of their journey toward building a fulfilling career. Our next webinar is all about crafting a fulfilling poetry career while pushing artistic boundaries.
Word Factory presents: Small Like a Bullet (2) with Tom Fowler
Region: International
One writer, one story. An in-depth series of exclusive masterclasses on the short story form running until July 2025. The second story in our series is Tom Vowler's V.S Pritchett Prize-winning story, Voyagers.
The 2025 PEN Lecture with Kamila Shamsie
Region: North East England
New Writing North is hosting this year's annual PEN Lecture in Newcastle on 19 June 2025. Home Fire author Kamila Shamsie will be reflecting on the state of free expression in our current era of upheaval and conflict and exploring the hope that the principles of the PEN Charter – from one of the world's oldest human rights organisations – offer for the future. Chaired by Preti Taneja, NCLA.
Arvon Saturday Writing Club (Online)
Region: International
Writing doesn’t have to be a solitary experience. The Saturday Writing Club is your monthly creative check-in - an hour of low-pressure, high-impact writing time with a welcoming community.
Out-Spoken: The Poetry Room, May 2025 - Register Now
Region: International
The Poetry Room is a four-week online mini course facilitated by Anthony Anaxagorou. The purpose of The Poetry Room is to find innovative ways of getting poems up on their feet by leading with a series of distinct prompts focused on certain themes and subjects.
Revisiting ‘A Serious Man’: creative writing workshops with Anna Morvern
Region: International
Summer 2025 series of three workshops on the Coen brothers’ 2009 film, 'A Serious Man'. Participants need to have watched the film before attending the workshops but certainly do not need to be film studies graduates, creative writing experts or similar (open to all). There will be encouragement, but no requirement, to share creative writing produced during the workshops.
Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre: Stratifying Dialects
Region: South East England
Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre is excited to announce 'Stratifying Dialects': a critical-creative symposium about the relationship between environmental memory and poetry that will be taking place at Oxford Brookes University on Wednesday 7 May 2025 from 10am-4.30pm.
Launceston Poetry Festival 2025
Region: South West England
The Charles Causley Trust presents the first-ever Launceston Poetry Festival, taking place from Thursday 29 May to Sunday 1 June 2025 in the beautiful Cornish town of Launceston, the beloved home of poet Charles Causley.
The Story in a Song
Region: International
Find the music in your writing with this four-part weekly workshop series throughout June at The Joy of Fixion. Immerse yourself in a varied playlist and use writing exercises to inspire stories, characters, settings and ideas.
Neurodivergent Creatives: This Is for You
Region: International
Divergent Creatives is now open for registration. This three-month programme is designed to help you, as a neurodivergent writer, build a sustainable and joyful creative practice that truly works for your unique needs. Follow your writing dreams without burnout, stress, or guilt, and create from a place of freedom and authenticity.
Meet Me in the Estuary: Writing as Ecotone
Region: International
The workshop will draw on specific bodies of water that have shaped its development, while extending invitations to engage with the liminal bodies of water that speak most to you.
Creative Writing Kickstart at The Biscuit Factory with Amanda Quinn
Region: North East England
Whether you’re new to creative writing or a writer wanting fresh inspiration, this workshop will encourage and support you to get writing and stay motivated.