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After a successful European tour we are bringing our KICKSTART YOUR WRITING workshop home! If you’re struggling with getting words down onto the page, stuck with a project, or just can’t seem to make the time for writing, come along for this two-day bootcamp that promises to get you back on track. Join tutors Victoria … Read more

Beginning this May/June we have a variety of daytime and evening creative writing courses available. All course descriptions are now available online! There is still time to book your place, simply e-mail us at hello@thereaderberlin.com

This May 28th psychologist and author, Dimitra Didangelou, returns to Berlin to teach her expressive writing workshop, ‘Steps into Nature’ in Viktoria Park, Kreuzberg. The workshop will explore how expressive writing can aid you to write freely and without fear of criticism, using nature’s spring symbols to help you locate your voice and discover new perspectives. The … Read more

The Reader Berlin and EXBERLINER are delighted to announce our 2016 short story contest. This year, we’re looking for fiction on the theme “A Summer Night”. As the days grow longer and we slough off the last grey cells of another Berlin winter, it’s time to let your imagination run riot and tell us your tales … Read more

The Reader is travelling to Belgium! This May we’ll be landing in beautiful Brussels to host a Kickstart Your Writing workshop with Sterling Books. Perfect for struggling writers and complete beginners, this workshop will get your creative juices flowing and help you to generate a body of new work! Further information here, to sign-up or if you have … Read more

The Reader is going on tour! This May we’ll be landing in beautiful Stockholm to host a Kickstart Your Writing workshop with The English Bookshop Stockholm. Perfect for struggling writers and complete beginners, this workshop will get your creative juices flowing and help you to generate a body of new work! Further information here, to sign-up … Read more

Lately, when people ask you how your writing is coming along, do you laugh hollowly and put your head in your hands? This spring why not reinvigorate your muse and move into summer 2016 inspired and unblocked… On March 19th and 20th, join Jane Flett and Victoria Gosling for a whole weekend devoted to feverish scribbling. Covering the basics of … Read more

The brilliant Donna Stonecipher returns to bring us another new course to begin in January 2016. The POETRY WORKSHOP with Donna Stonecipher will begin on January 18th and will run for seven weeks at St. Georges Bookshop in Prenzlauer Berg, further details available here.  

Lately, when people ask you how your writing is coming along, do you laugh hollowly and put your head in your hands? Why not give yourself an early Christmas present and make sure you begin 2016 inspired and unblocked… On December 12 and 13th, join Jane Flett and Victoria Gosling for a whole weekend devoted to feverish scribbling. Covering the basics … Read more

Do you want to write, but don’t know how or where to start? Are you daunted by the thought of writing alone? Our new creative writing tutor Fatin Abbas will be making her Reader debut at Topics in Neukölln, with a 7 week course starting 3rd November. More details here.

Join us for a a special half day workshop exploring expressive writing with psychologist and writer Dimitra Didangelou. Combining the joys of writing, nature and personal growth, the workshop will explore and employ the techniques of expressive writing with the aim of enabling you to write freely and without fear of criticism. The workshop will … Read more