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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...

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...

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...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Mon 1 Sep 2025 to Wed 1 Jul 2026
Bookings are now open for the Spark Young Writers 2025-2026 programme offering young people aged 8-17 across West Midlands the opportunity to take part in a fun, creative writing group led by a professional writer either in person or online. Read more...

Mon 1 Sep 2025 to Tue 1 Sep 2026
Brunel University has launched a brand new Master’s in Creative Writing for Marketing. This is the only postgraduate course in the UK offering a fusion of these two disciplines. Graduates will leave with a unique set of skills that sets them apart in the competitive jobs market. Read more...

Mon 1 Sep 2025 to Mon 31 Aug 2026
The MA English Literature & Creative Writing recognises creativity as a critical act and criticism as always creative. You will study a varied range of English Literature with the option of an Advanced Creative Writing Workshop for those who wish to publish in professional contexts. There's also a 25% discount for Hope alumni who got a first or 2.1. degree. Read more...

Tue 2 Sep 2025 to Tue 30 Sep 2025
The Creative Writing Programme is the leading independent centre for creative writing teaching in the south-east of England offering one and two-year courses in creative writing, life writing and poetry in person in Brighton, Worthing, Eastbourne and Tunbridge Wells and online.  Read more...

Wed 3 Sep 2025 to Mon 13 Oct 2025
The TLC's self-editing courses are designed to equip you with the necessary tools to refine your manuscript whether it's fiction or non fiction. Tutors are Jon Barton (fiction) and Xanthi Barker (non fiction). Read more...

Wed 3 Sep 2025 to Tue 30 Sep 2025
Take a deep dive into the radical nature of creativity and the transformative possibilities of stories with this year’s Writing as Resistance Festival from The Writers' HQ. Read more...

Fri 5 Sep 2025 to Fri 5 Dec 2025
Elevate your poetic craft in this dynamic monthly small group mentoring workshop tailored for those already writing and eager to take their poetry to new heights. Read more...

Mon 8 Sep 2025 to Mon 6 Oct 2025
Join award-winning poet Liz Berry for a playful generative 5-week poetry course about seeking inspiration from the worlds of music, visual art, movement, architecture, mapping and history. Read more...

Tue 9 Sep 2025 to Thu 27 Nov 2025
This autumn we bring you a variety of Zoom workshops including our Make Money From series, Short Story Skills series, Writing Humour in Fiction, Dialogue and World Building. Created by WB’s team of expert tutors, our workshops offer a relaxed, friendly environment to learn new skills. Read more...

Tue 9 Sep 2025 to Wed 19 Nov 2025
We have a range of new courses beginning in September covering everything from novel-writing, to writing ghost stories, to writing spoken word poetry.  Read more...

Wed 10 Sep 2025 to Wed 29 Oct 2025
The “Objective Correlative” (T.S. Eliot) is, quite simply, the ability to find in the “outside world” a signifier, or equivalent, for our inner human experience. For poets, typically, we see the Objective Correlative in the form of an image. Read more...

Fri 12 Sep 2025 to Fri 21 Nov 2025
Would you like to explore how reading can enhance your everyday life? Then this course is for you… Read more...
NAWE Conference
For details of the NAWE Conference which is our largest annual gathering of NAWE members and others, click here