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Water Ways

On Saturday a lovely group of writers came along to Water Ways, the newest of the Four Elements workshops that

On Sunday I taught for the first time at the Victoria and Albert Museum: a workshop on food in writing

I read a lot of good books in 2019. I am never sure about the idea of Best Books, or

In 2020 I’m continuing the ongoing series of new Four Elements workshops with Kellie Jackson of Words Away. Four Elements

Here towards the end of the summer break comes a post with info on writing and creativity workshops I’m leading

1. I saw Bhanu Kapil reading at the LRB Bookshop on Friday. An intense but joyful event – tales of

What’s the conflict, where’s the conflict? These questions often arise in creative writing, and sometimes I find them tiresome. Perhaps it’s

Kellie Jackson of Words Away and I have lined up two further day-long masterclasses on craft for the summer term.

I’m really happy to introduce a guest writing experiment from Zoe Gilbert. She’s chosen a topic that I myself encountered

Last month I felt very privileged to see Anna Burns talk about writing and read from her wonderful, prize-winning novel

Following on from the Character Questionnaire exercise that came out of last week’s masterclass, here is another writing experiment to help

On Saturday I led a masterclass on Character and Setting in conjunction with Kellie Jackson of Words Away. It’s the