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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...
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Fri 9 Aug 2024 to Sun 24 Aug 2025
The full 2025 Edinburgh International Book Festival programme has been announced with a key theme of Repair. Read more...
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Wed 2 Oct 2024 to Wed 31 Dec 2025
Love creative writing and want to make it more of a feature in your life? Read more...
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Wed 8 Jan 2025 to Mon 1 Dec 2025
A year of hunting and gathering of words, words, words! Every minute of every day of every month of every year is different. Why not spend a year pinning down your experiences? Read more...
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Wed 8 Jan 2025 to Mon 15 Dec 2025
Quality online writing workshops, poetry feedback workshops and masterclasses curated by Cath Drake. 1 January 2025 to 15 December 2025. NAWE member discount for the new year Poetry & Mindfulness Uplift. Read more...
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Wed 22 Jan 2025 to Wed 31 Dec 2025
Connect with nature and your work-in-progress on a self-led writer’s retreat at the Writers’ Cabin, situated just three miles outside Machynlleth, mid Wales. The Writers’ Cabin, which was picked by The Sunday Times in 2024 as one of the top 7 UK writer’s retreats, sleeps up to two people with a separate shower room and large sauna. Self-catered stays last either 3, 4 or 7 days and include a complimentary sauna session and a bottle of Poetry Pharmacy pills. Read more...
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Sat 25 Jan 2025 to Sat 27 Dec 2025
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 challenges along the way. Read more...
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Sat 8 Feb 2025 to Sat 6 Dec 2025
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? Then our MENTORING MORNINGS are for you! Read more...
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Mon 24 Feb 2025 to Sat 13 Dec 2025
The Garsdale Retreat is a creative writing centre in the remote and beautiful setting of The Yorkshire Dales. We have a wonderfully inspiring line-up of tutors and guest readers for 2025 as well as nine untutored retreats. Read more...
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Mon 10 Mar 2025 to Thu 11 Dec 2025
Ty Newydd Writing Centre’s 35th programme of creative writing courses is now out in the world! Our 2025 programme features a varied and rich mix of residential and online writing courses and retreats designed to inspire you to push your writing to the next level. Read more...
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Mon 17 Mar 2025 to Mon 15 Sep 2025
This online Imaginarium is focused on the power we hold as writers, the power dynamics in what we’re writing, the power of words, the variable power of voice and form. Read more...
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Wed 2 Apr 2025 to Wed 31 Dec 2025
Getting On: Understanding & Writing Love in Later Life is a new project that explores and embraces the lived experience and cultural representations of love in later life in Scotland today. Read more...
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Wed 2 Apr 2025 to Wed 31 Dec 2025
Lower Brinsop Writers’ House, a 15th century Grade II listed former Hall House in unspoilt Herefordshire countryside, offers a stimulating and inspiring environment for creative practitioners for whom we offer special rates. Read more...
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Mon 28 Apr 2025 to Mon 15 Sep 2025
Refresh your writing this spring with an online tutored course, designed in partnership with National Centre for Writing and University of East Anglia. Choose from fiction, romantic fiction, creative non-fiction and novel writing. Read more...
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Mon 2 Jun 2025 to Sun 31 Aug 2025
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. Read more...
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Tue 3 Jun 2025 to Wed 22 Oct 2025
Join a group of 15 writers working at a high level, get expert guidance as you redraft your novel and learn what literary agents are looking for directly from the source. Read more...
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Mon 9 Jun 2025 to Sun 21 Sep 2025
Not only but also enjoy live traditional Irish music and dance performances, visit an intriguing island with a guide, step inside a castle and be part of a writing workshop inside a 19th century thatched cottage on the beautiful ‘Wild Atlantic Way’ coastline. Read more...
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Mon 30 Jun 2025 to Wed 31 Dec 2025
Having provided mentoring for its alumni for some years, Curtis Brown Creative is now rolling out its new one-to-one mentoring programme that is open to all. Get expert, individual guidance as you write and edit your novel, memoir or non-fiction project. 3/6/9 Months | Zoom or In Person | £1,700. Read more...
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Wed 2 Jul 2025 to Wed 17 Sep 2025
Over the last 14 years, Writing a Novel, Faber Academy’s flagship course, has inspired hundreds of writers and put more than 150 authors on the path to publication. Re-immerse yourself in the craft of the novel and continue – or rediscover – the momentum and camaraderie of our world-famous course. Read more...
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Wed 9 Jul 2025 to Wed 27 Aug 2025
This course is aimed at writers with a body of non-fiction (small or large) that they are hoping to polish for publication. Read more...
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Fri 11 Jul 2025 to Sun 23 Nov 2025
New introductory and advanced courses on bibliotherapy and the art of reading for wellbeing starting this autumn plus a guided literary walk around Spitalfields and Brick Lane this July. Read more...
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Sat 2 Aug 2025 to Sat 30 Aug 2025
Five full-day creative writing workshops for adults on Saturdays in Oxford in August. These one-day writing workshops are filled with creative, practical exercises to discover new ideas and use them immediately. All the workshops are multi-level (suitable for both beginners and experienced writers) and for most workshops you can choose to create new ideas or to develop a work in progress. Read more...
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Mon 4 Aug 2025 to Sat 20 Dec 2025
Lumb Bank is back and more inspiring than ever! Transformed after months of careful redevelopment, our creative writing house in Yorkshire is reopening its doors. Read more...
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Tue 5 Aug 2025 to Wed 27 Aug 2025
Coming up from The Poetry Business this August are online workshops with Jonathan Edwards, Michael Schmidt, Hannah Lowe, Vanessa Lampert, Amanda Dalton and Rory Waterman. Read more...
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Wed 6 Aug 2025 to Sun 24 Aug 2025
Embro is a walk through the literary sights of Edinburgh's Royal Mile for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, with local poet Ken Cockburn. Read more...
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Tue 12 Aug 2025 to Tue 2 Sep 2025
A four-week course exploring the key elements of publication for writers, taking in short stories, novels, self-publishing and more!
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Thu 14 Aug 2025 to Thu 28 Aug 2025
This August, Write & Shine turns ten! We're celebrating our tenth year with a joyful Summer Festival, which takes place from 14 to 28 August. Each event reflects a core value of Write & Shine, including paying attention to the seasons and our love of quiet mornings. Read more...
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Tue 19 Aug 2025 to Tue 23 Sep 2025
This course will explore how to use a work of art to tell a personal story. We will look at memoirs, essays, and reviews to look at how art – in any medium – can inform and elevate our understanding of ourselves, and the world. Read more...
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Mon 25 Aug 2025 to Sat 30 Aug 2025
Nature writing involves filtering your feelings for the life around you through observation and knowledge. The aim of this course therefore is to explore not just nature and wildlife, but the way we use language and the ethics of writing about a world we have so diminished. Read more...
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Thu 28 Aug 2025 to Thu 28 Aug 2025
What stories lie just beneath your thoughts? What images, memories, or truths emerge when you let go of logic and let language lead? In this generative poetry workshop, we’ll begin and end with mindfulness—guided stillness to help us settle into the body and open the door to the subconscious. Read more...
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For details of the NAWE Conference which is our largest annual gathering of NAWE members and others, click here
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