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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 21 Sep 2022 to Tue 31 Dec 2024
We are a friendly Creative Writing Group for everyone at any level of their writing. We write fiction, nonfiction, and poems. We encourage and strengthen each other’s writing by using discussions, videos, articles, and sharing in the group. 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...

Mon 25 Sep 2023 to Fri 27 Sep 2024
Looking for a flexible postgraduate degree? Places are available for part-time and full-time study on the new MA Creative & Critical Writing at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU). 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...

Wed 10 Jan 2024 to Sun 8 Dec 2024
Do you have a story you’re burning to tell? Would you love to write a script, and hear it read by professional actors? Following our sold out 2021, 2022 and 2023 courses, we are very pleased to again be offering this year-long programme, facilitated by two professional writers, which will enable you to explore and develop your skills as a writer for both the stage and the screen.  Read more...

Sat 27 Jan 2024 to Sat 28 Dec 2024
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 setbacks along the way.  Read more...

Mon 5 Feb 2024 to Mon 29 Jul 2024
If you’re a committed aspiring poet hoping to take your writing to the next level, join Maurice Riordan and Richard Scott for this six-month course at the home of British poetry.  Read more...

Tue 13 Feb 2024 to Tue 23 Jul 2024
Towards an Experimental Ecology of Line is an intra-disciplinary, online workshop designed for artists, musicians, performers, poets, writers and thinkers working across & between forms who want some structured time to explore the ecological dimensions of their creative-critical practice. Read more...

Mon 4 Mar 2024 to Fri 13 Dec 2024
We are delighted to launch Dy Bennod Nesaf – Your Next Chapter, our new programme of creative writing courses and retreats at Ty Newydd Writing Centre to help bring your stories and ideas to life in 2024. Read more...

Mon 11 Mar 2024 to Mon 30 Sep 2024
Serious about writing but don’t have the time to commit to an MA? Our online courses at the New Writing North Academy are the perfect solution for serious writers with full time jobs, caring responsibilities, and full lives in whatever form that may take. Read more...

Mon 18 Mar 2024 to Sat 14 Dec 2024
Have you booked this year's place at The Garsdale Retreat yet? There are still some places available to book on a variety of courses and untutored retreats. Read more...

Mon 18 Mar 2024 to Mon 16 Sep 2024
Six one-hour sessions of 1:1 coaching in-person with Write Within's Julia Forster at the Poetry Pharmacy once a month, on the third Monday of the month, from March – September 2024 (excluding August). Apply by 29 February 2024. Read more...

Mon 25 Mar 2024 to Sun 29 Sep 2024
Ireland Writing Retreat marks its tenth anniversary with a programme of exciting writing retreats in Paris and Ireland in 2024. Read more...

Tue 30 Apr 2024 to Thu 18 Jul 2024
Develop your story-building and creative writing skills over twelve weeks in a collaborative, supportive group, through creative games and activities that create and extend stories in class, plus feedback on your writing. Book by 23 April. Read more...

Wed 1 May 2024 to Thu 25 Jul 2024
The Irish Writers Centre offers a range of in-person and online courses for writers at every stage of their career.  Read more...

Wed 1 May 2024 to Fri 30 Aug 2024
Our Summer Season is now on sale, full of events and opportunities to help you develop your writing career, discover new books and authors, and connect with your local community. Read more...

Thu 2 May 2024 to Thu 25 Jul 2024
Always wanted to write for children but not sure where to start? Kickstart your path to writing your first novel for younger readers with our inaugural Newcastle Writing for Children course. Read more...

Sun 5 May 2024 to Sat 5 Oct 2024
Join fellow writers for the In Vino Veritas workshop in Tuscany and get those creative juices flowing! 2024 Dates: May 5 - 11 or September 29 - October 5. All-inclusive Package. Stunning location in Tuscany. Read more...

Mon 6 May 2024 to Mon 2 Dec 2024
‘To Manuscript and Beyond’ is a new poetry course aimed at helping you to develop and prepare for submission to editors/publishers a pamphlet length collection of poems (18 – 24 pages).  Read more...

Tue 7 May 2024 to Mon 9 Sep 2024
Become the writer you want to be with one of our online tutored courses, in partnership with UEA's School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, beginning May 2024. Book by 21 March to take advantage of our 10% early bird discount. Read more...

Thu 9 May 2024 to Thu 1 Aug 2024
The poet as critic, the critic as artist – poetics across the divide. In this course you will traverse the conventional boundaries between poet and critic – lyricism and analysis, immersion and distance – to explore where these vantage points can intersect, overlap and diverge in interesting and impactful ways. Read more...

Tue 28 May 2024 to Mon 12 Aug 2024
On sale now! Brand new short courses for writers with a manuscript in progress. This series of new eight-week online short courses is for writers seeking to reflect, reimagine and refine their work in progress. Early bird discount available. Read more...

Thu 30 May 2024 to Thu 8 Aug 2024
Playing to the crowd; polish your pieces through the poetics of performance. This course will give feedback on how you read your poems to a live audience and, simultaneously, use that to help workshop and positively critique your poems. Read more...

Sat 1 Jun 2024 to Tue 31 Dec 2024
Led by WB’s poetry tutor, Mandy Pannett, members have the chance to explore and develop their poetry writing skills. It is a place to kick-start and develop your poems with constructive feedback from your poetry peers. Read more...

Tue 4 Jun 2024 to Tue 5 Nov 2024
First Tuesday Writers is a new series of online workshops from New Writing South for writers of all kinds to keep your writing fresh.  Read more...

Tue 4 Jun 2024 to Mon 23 Sep 2024
Take your rough first draft all the way to finished and polished novel and put together a compelling pitch package ready to send to agents on this specially designed three-month course. Read more...

Thu 6 Jun 2024 to Thu 1 Aug 2024
A transformative workshop series about harnessing your inspirations to expand your writing. Read more...

Thu 13 Jun 2024 to Thu 12 Dec 2024
How do poets write about the unspeakable? How do we teach students to write about impossible subject matter? Why and how do poets employ such strategies as fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetition to address a subject that is not bearable? Can poetry be a healing process for the poet? For the reader? Read more...
NAWE Events
For details of NAWE events including our Annual Retreat, CPD Programme and Annual Conference, click here.