This practical and engaging workshop will explore the theory behind how to organise plot and structure your story. You’ll learn about both classic and contemporary approaches to plot and examine how effective stories are built. We’ll explore how to create a narrative arc, manage pace, and how the right structure can help shape even the most loosely formed idea.

Participants are encouraged to bring either a work-in-progress or a story idea they would like to develop.

This workshop is suitable for both beginners and more experienced writers working on adult and children’s fiction.

Jyoti Patel is an author and winner of the 2021 #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize. An extract from her debut novel, "The Things That We Lost", was chosen as the winning submission from over 2,000 entries for the 2021 New Writers’ Prize, a competition that aims to discover unpublished, underrepresented writers from the UK and Ireland. Jyoti is a graduate of the University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing Prose Fiction MA and was selected as one of The Observer’s 10 Best New Novelists for 2023. Her writing has previously been published as part of We Present’s ‘Literally’ series and in the anthology for the 2022 Bristol Short Story Prize, for which she was shortlisted.

Date: 15 September 2025, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Online
Cost: £12-£9.60

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