Events

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 9 Sep 2024 to Sun 2 Feb 2025

Our brand-new programme of writing courses and workshops, author events, community-led writing groups, and more, is open for bookings now! We've got something for readers and writers of all kinds across the North. Read more...

Tue 10 Sep 2024 to Tue 25 Feb 2025

It’s said that everyone has a novel in them… What’s yours? This six-month online course from September 10th 2024 - February 25th 2025 has been designed to increase your writing confidence, help you find your voice, and start writing your novel. Read more...

Mon 23 Sep 2024 to Mon 27 Jan 2025

Our online tutored courses, designed in partnership with UEA's School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, are back for the September 2024 term! Book by 12th July for Early Bird discount on Level One courses. Read more...

Tue 24 Sep 2024 to Tue 25 Feb 2025

Spread the Word are thrilled to announce the launch of their new Developing Tutor strand of creative writing workshops. Running from September 2024 to February 2025, this series of low-cost workshops cover everything; from developing words as a form of resistance to exploring the crossover connections between poetry and prose. 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...

Tue 7 Jan 2025 to Mon 10 Feb 2025

What makes a short story work? From skin and bones to the beating heart, how do we bring them to life? In this course, we’ll take some great short fiction apart for parts, work on exercises to get to know our own writing, and try to breathe new life into our stories. Read more...

Wed 8 Jan 2025 to Wed 12 Feb 2025

This six-week online course offers writers the chance to develop the skills needed to write a historical novel. Participants will learn about the key elements of writing historical fiction including how to research your story, build the world of the novel and develop historical plots and characters. 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...

Thu 9 Jan 2025 to Thu 6 Feb 2025

Across a series of five two-hour live Zoom sessions, freelance journalist Caroline Butterwick will guide you through the process of getting articles published in newspapers and magazines. Read more...

Sat 11 Jan 2025 to Sat 1 Feb 2025

Join Bernadette Russell and Sophie Austin in the woods for a series of fireside, outdoor creative-writing workshops that will bring you closer to the wild within and without. Read more...

Mon 13 Jan 2025 to Sun 16 Mar 2025

Join Andrew Wille's masterclasses on the craft and practice of writing or come along to his creative workshops on tarot for writers. 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...

Mon 13 Jan 2025 to Mon 3 Mar 2025

Know yourself through words. This long-established and ground-breaking course for personal and professional development will provide you with an understanding of therapeutic and reflective writing techniques for working personally or with groups. Read more...

Tue 14 Jan 2025 to Tue 18 Feb 2025

This six-week online course focuses on portraits and self-portraits in poetry, fiction, life writing and art. Writing activities will include poetry, fiction, character studies, ekphrasis and memoir pieces. Read more...

Tue 14 Jan 2025 to Wed 12 Feb 2025

Five Weeks To Make Your Novel Grow or Five Weeks to Make Your Novel Great - with writer Helen Cross Read more...

Wed 15 Jan 2025 to Wed 26 Feb 2025

Treat yourself this Christmas to an online writing course for the new year. Story for Screenwriting, Writing Crime Fiction and Fiction Foundations will get started in January 2025, and Write a Submit a Short Story, Stories from Life and Write a Young Adult Novel return in February 2025. Bursaries available to residents of Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland. 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...

Thu 16 Jan 2025 to Fri 7 Feb 2025

Do you love all things ghostly and eerie, and stories that give you a chill? Perhaps you’ve been writing scary and uncanny things for a while, or perhaps you’d like to try something new.  Read more...

Mon 20 Jan 2025 to Wed 29 Jan 2025

The Poetry Business has more inspiring online poetry workshops lined up this January.  Read more...