NAWE Online Conference 2025: Inspiring Writing
Friday 7 & Saturday 8 November 2025, 9-5 / Online
Full Programme Announced
The full programme for Inspiring Writing, this year’s NAWE Online Conference on 7 and 8 November 2025 is available now. Download the programme as a pdf on the right of the page.
Spanning two days, the 2025 programme features over 80 presentations, workshops and panels exploring our theme of ‘Inspiring Writing’ from every perspective. 90 contributors will inform, showcase, and motivate from across the UK and as far afield as the United States, Canada, Nigeria, and Japan.
We are delighted to welcome as our opening speakers Naomi Alderman (Friday) and Peter Sansom (Saturday). Naomi Alderman is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University; the award winning author of novels, short stories and journalism; creator of games and apps including Zombies, Run! whose downloads stretch into millions, and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Human Intelligence, a history of thinking. Peter Sansom is a renowned teacher and editor of poetry, founder and co-director of The Poetry Business, and an award-winning poet. Read more
How to book
Conference rates start at just £86 for members and £25 for student members with reduced rates for contributors. Non-member rates include a year’s free e-membership to NAWE. Book your place here
Your conference
If you teach, facilitate or research creative writing, this is your conference. The two-day event brings NAWE members and others together, spanning further and higher education, adult learning, and the many diverse contexts in which creative writing takes place in communities and schools.
The conference is a wonderful opportunity to connect, learn and share in sessions, presentations and workshops. This year we are introducing lunchtime NAWE ‘Bars’ so you can network more with others in your part of the country. There are also opportunities to attend an open meeting of the HE Committee and meet up with the NAWE PhD Network.
The Inspiring Writing 2025 programme
Sessions cover a rich diversity of topics, for example:
• The art of creating writing prompts
• Inspiring community anthology writing
• Teaching interactive fiction in the classroom through text games
• Developing writing with family carers
• Interdisciplinary approaches to engage with hard to reach young people
• Ways of sustaining inspiration through writing itself.
You’ll find sessions about:
• The role of artificial intelligence in teaching and facilitating creative writing
• Attitudes to neurodivergence
• Creative writing methods in secondary schools
• Ways of working with diverse communities
• Creative writing in eco-education and with architecture students
• Writing for wellbeing and in health and social care
There’s more: the craft of writing is explored in sessions around the creative writing process and the forces behind creativity and there is a focus on literary forms such as anaphora and paratopia, historical research, and ethics.
The programme includes over 20 interactive workshops. Those include:
• A creative AI workshop using chatbots
• Ways to use silence in writing
• Methods to facilitate writing for wellbeing in the classroom
• Writing through poetic form
• 101 tips and ideas for working with young people
• Ways to use the Government Art Collection to inspire writing, and many more.
Sessions will be recorded and made available for delegates to view on demand after the conference, so you won’t miss out if there are sessions you can’t get to.
See you there!
We look forward to welcoming you as we consider what inspiration means in our work as teachers and facilitators, and individually as writers ourselves.
Book your place here