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Wed 19 May 2021 to Mon 19 May 2025
The Prompt Box is our creative writing prompt subscription service. Each month you’ll receive unique, creative, and inspiring writing prompts all wrapped up and delivered to your door. We’ll also email a PDF workbook each month to help you get the most from the prompts. Our Prompt Boxes will help you write fiction and non-fiction, or you can use them to write poetry. Read more...

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...

Wed 13 Sep 2023 to Mon 7 Jul 2025
This unique Masters (MSc) with Metanoia Institute London, accredited by Middlesex University, is for people fascinated by writing and its many applications. Study part-time at weekends (7 live online and 3 in person in Bristol UK per year). Read more...

Fri 20 Oct 2023 to Tue 29 Jul 2025
The Wonderland Theatre Book Club is a lively online Book Club for writers and artists who want to ignite their potential by reading important plays together. Every Tuesday fortnight, we share ‘Challenges’ we have written in response to the ‘prompt’ of this classic play. Read more...

Mon 30 Sep 2024 to Sun 29 Jun 2025
The Creative Writing Programme offers UK and international in-person and online creative and life writing courses from its base in Brighton. From October 2024 we are offering our two-year, part-time Creative Writing Programmes and the Life Writing Programme; a range of Advanced Poetry courses and our popular Advanced Writing Workshops. Read more...

Tue 1 Oct 2024 to Thu 3 Jul 2025
The Novel Studio is an intensive year-long novel writing course for aspiring novelists with an excellent track record of published alumni. It offers 15 selected students the opportunity to work exclusively on their novels for a year. Scholarship available. Apply by 30 June. Read more...

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...

Thu 10 Oct 2024 to Thu 3 Apr 2025
If you’re a committed aspiring poet ready to take your writing to the next level, join Maurice Riordan for this six-month course at the home of British poetry. Apply by 29 September. Read more...

Mon 11 Nov 2024 to Sun 30 Mar 2025
Annual affordable coaching clinic at the Poetry Pharmacy is open for applications until 11 October with just three places available. Are you a poet, author or creative practitioner who would like to set some goals to move your work-in-progress forwards this winter?  Read more...

Thu 21 Nov 2024 to Sun 20 Apr 2025
The Creative Writing for Teachers programme brings together like-minded peers from across the teaching profession, allowing participants to take the time to develop their own creative writing practice, share ideas, and reflect on their creative writing teaching. There are two courses, one aimed specifically at teachers working in secondary schools and colleges and the other for teachers in primary school settings. Read more...

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...

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...

Thu 9 Jan 2025 to Thu 5 Jun 2025
The Centre for Arts and Wellbeing at the University of Brighton are partnering with New Writing South to run writing and wellbeing workshops for members of the LGBTQ+ community and our allies. Workshops will be run by local writer Lou Tondeur. Read more...

Mon 13 Jan 2025 to Sat 5 Apr 2025
Our Spring Term is now live! We have a whole host of brilliant tutors and poetry courses ready lined Our courses tend to sell out really fast, so early booking is recommended. Read more...

Wed 15 Jan 2025 to Wed 9 Apr 2025
Join the weird, multi-species crew of our compost-bin spaceship, Earth. In this course, we’ll look through a queer lens at the bumptious and unruly biosphere, seeing how it intersects with speculative, ecogothic, and queer-theory approaches. Read more...

Tue 21 Jan 2025 to Tue 1 Apr 2025
This intensive fiction workshop is open by selective application to a maximum of ten fiction writers working at the advanced and professional levels.  Read more...

Tue 21 Jan 2025 to Tue 24 Jun 2025
Towards An Experimental Ecology of Line is a six-month, online container course for artists, musicians, performers, poets, writers and thinkers working across & between forms, who want structured time to explore the ecological dimensions of their creative-critical practice. Read more...

Wed 22 Jan 2025 to Wed 9 Apr 2025
Amplify your creative practice with TLC. In this three-month online group coaching programme, come together with like-minded writers working seriously towards individual writing goals who want to make tangible progress with their writing with the support of their peers. Read more...

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...

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...

Sat 25 Jan 2025 to Tue 8 Jul 2025
Story for Novelists is an advanced-level asynchronous online course, perfect for writers looking for an intensive deep dive into story structure. Read more...

Tue 28 Jan 2025 to Tue 24 Jun 2025
Achieve your writing potential with Faber Academy's flagship course. Writing a Novel is designed to support aspiring fiction writers to develop your craft over six months, with courses in London (at Faber's HQ in Hatton Garden) and online. Read more...

Wed 29 Jan 2025 to Wed 14 May 2025
There are only a few spaces left in these intimate monthly sessions, where we immerse ourselves in poetry for two hours. NAWE Members Discount. Read more...

Fri 31 Jan 2025 to Fri 20 Jun 2025
A new Foundation Course for aspiring playwrights is starting January 2025 at Vincent’s Club in the centre of Oxford. The course is run on Fridays, 10.30am – 5.30pm, and is in person throughout. Read more...

Wed 5 Feb 2025 to Thu 27 Mar 2025
Transform your relationship with writing, through individual support, fresh mindsets, and the time you need to write, in lively workshop-style classes.In person (Oxford) and online options. Read more...

Thu 6 Feb 2025 to Wed 21 May 2025
The first batch of Spring courses has arrived featuring a new selection of online and in-person courses, from writing short stories, adapting your writing for the screen and writing edgy fiction. Read more...

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...

Mon 10 Feb 2025 to Mon 9 Jun 2025
Looking for a high-quality, in-depth writing course that fits around your busy schedule? Want to develop the technical skills, routine, and confidence to achieve your writing goals? Searching for a welcoming and supportive community of writers?  Read more...

Mon 10 Feb 2025 to Mon 28 Apr 2025
Ready to master the techniques of creative non-fiction writing? In this 12-week online course, you’ll explore a variety of forms within the creative non-fiction genre, including biography, reportage, nature writing, and more. Read more...

Fri 14 Feb 2025 to Fri 16 May 2025
An online reflective journal programme to support connection, creativity, insight and expression. Starting Friday 14th February 2025. Read more...
NAWE Conference
For details of the NAWE Conference which is our largest annual gathering of NAWE members and others, click here