This 5-week course is designed for neurodiverse writers (both diagnosed and undiagnosed) who want to understand their own individual writing process and develop practical strategies for creativity and approaching publication.

You’ll build a personalised “Survive and Thrive” toolkit to help you navigate common challenges in writing and the professional side of being a writer. Through guided tasks, prompts and shared discussion, you’ll explore what helps, what hinders, and what supports you in your creative process and in everyday life.

This course will cover keeping on going, using what you love to fuel your work, navigating social networking, managing sensory challenges, and shaping a writing life that works for you.

Rachel Sambrooks is a writer with late diagnosed ADHD. Having a lifetime of learning strategies for her own writing as well as teaching creative writing to adults, young people and ESOL students it was only recently she discovered how her unusual approaches to her writing were informed by her own neurodiversity. Additionally being a parent/carer for a child with DLD has meant she has spent the last twenty years expanding her understanding of neurodiversity. Rachel was runner up in the CWIP prize 2025 and is now represented by an agent and on submission to publishers with her debut novel. She is published in anthologies with her short story and poetry and has a poetry pamphlet ‘Harpy’ published by Palewell Press.

Dates: Tuesdays from 2nd– 30th June 2026 from 19:00-21:00 BST
Location: Online
Cost: £175

Book your place here