(Sept. 3 & 4, 2022) Remember when writing was fun? This course consists of a 30 minute one-to-one (in-person or ONLINE) with Sarah on September 3, and a group workshop on September 4. During the one-to-one you will work through specific creative blocks with Sarah. The second day will be consist of play and experimentation to help … Read more
(Aug. 13 & 14, 2022) Television is an inherently commercial medium, and learning to write it goes hand in hand with learning how to sell it. This weekend course will introduce the craft of writing serialized television and give students guidance and tools to pitch their screenplays and series ideas to producers. Participants will be expected … Read more
(July 9, 2022) We experience life in and through our bodies – but when did you last read a book in any genre that really captured embodied experience? This course is about reclaiming the body as an important subject and portal in writing in order to help you claim your narrative voice. It is suitable … Read more
(June 25, 2022) Have you always wanted to write poetry, but don’t know how to start? Maybe you already write poems and are looking for a good excuse to spend a weekend delving deeper? Maybe your writing feels a little bland and you want to explore other forms that could help you break out of old … Read more
(May 14 & 15, 2022) Have you always wanted to write a collection of short stories, but don’t know where to begin? Do you already have some stories that you’d like to publish, but don’t know how to link them together? Are you searching for a theme, a title or a USP for your collection? … Read more
(April 23, 2022) Great literature is an immense source of know-how for writers; deep reading is the art of exploring it. Even in times of constant distraction, and without knowing much about literary history, it will help you understand and learn from the most challenging, bold, and original texts, encouraging you to take your own … Read more
(June 11, 2022) The Plot Workshop is a new weekend workshop event that will help you explore, expand and finesse the plot of your novel or novel idea. In this highly interactive space, you, as a participant, will work with the novelist Ben Fergusson and four other writers to explore your plot in detail, to iron … Read more
(Mar. 19, 2022) Do you want your work to get weirder and wilder, experiment with form, or find new ways to break through creative blocks? In this one-day generative fiction workshop you will experiment with form and find new ways to break through creative blocks. Master story writer, Olivia Parkes will guide you in developing … Read more
(Jan. 22 & 23, 2022) Book reviews often mention how beautiful a writer’s sentences are. What does that mean? Is it important? Should sentences that strike the reader as so very beautiful simply be cut? In this workshop, we’ll work on your sentences in order to make sure they’re working the best they can for … Read more
In this workshop we’ll look at the relationship between words and pictures: how pictures can tell a story, how illustrations can elaborate on text, and the narrative possibilities this can open up in your own work. We’ll be looking at a wide variety of artists and discussing the techniques they use to incorporate stories and images, then … Read more
In this 1-day workshop we’ll think about how we can imagine the city. We’ll draw inspiration from works on Berlin by writers like Else Lasker-Schüler, Audre Lorde, and Musa Okwonga, and use them as prompts to render our own worlds. We’ll then look to some of the most fantastic city fabulists, like Italo Calvino and William … Read more
Join Nikesh Shukla for a weekend workshop in which the acclaimed and prolific author will don his surgical gown, sharpen his scalpel and address all your writing concerns, bugbears and issues. Nikesh will address topics like Process, Plotting, Character, Publishing, but with room to go off-piste. He’ll share his knowledge and experience, invite participants to pose their questions, … Read more