WRITING COURSES 2021
WRITING COURSES2021
Expand your writing horizons with courses, workshops and retreats during 2021. These are sorted geographically but, under lockdown, most organisations are now running events online – the perfect chance to check out courses that would normally be too far afield, so make sure you check each area to find the right course for you.
LONDON & SOUTH EAST
Chalk the Sun Creative Writing
Year-round courses, workshops and events for writers, in and around SW London, and Spain. All courses currently online only
Writers Room, first Saturday in the month;
Novelists’ Survival Group, first Monday in the month; tailored mentoring packages and development tutorials, customised workshop. Creative holidays in Spain TBC later in 2021. creativewriting@chalkthesun.co.uk http://chalkthesun.co.uk
Chris Leonard Writing
Creative writing workshops and writing days, various times and days, Surrey and East Sussex
Weekly Zoom groups and workshops.
Summer writing days June-August, dates TBC chrisleonardwriting@gmail.com www.chrisleonardwriting.uk
Complete Creative Writing Course
A range of courses for a range of levels of writing, various times and days, usually held at The Groucho Club, Soho; currently all online only.
Six 3-hour sessions on creative writing – choose from beginners, intermediate or advanced levels: Screenwriting course. Summer Workshop in July.
jamie@writingcourses.org.uk www.writingcourses.org.uk
Creative Writing Summer School, Oxford University
Three-week residential intensive course
Residential summer school, 25 Jul-14 August at Exeter College for experienced creative writers (intermediate and advanced levesl), with seminar-based study and a daily programme of talks and readings by established authors. £3,280/£3,575 residential, £1,460 non-residential. writingsummer@conted.ox.ac.uk
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/creativewriting-summer-school
Faber Academy
Extensive programme of weekly courses, weekend workshops and day events, all year round, exclusively online for now
One-day workshops: Start to Write Fiction, with Sarah May, 27 Feb, 27 March, 24
April, 29 May or 26 June; Start to Write Poetry, with Richard Scott, 27 Mar. Courses, all currently online, mostly comprising weekly sessions over multiple weeks: 15 Feb-14 Mar, Fiction Skills: Plot, with Tom Bromley; 22 Feb-25 April, Writing YA, with Lee Weatherly; 22-26 Feb, Writing in Captivity: An Online Writing Retreat, with Marcel Theroux; 22 Feb-21 Mar, Fiction Skills: Research, with Philip Marsden; 1-28 Mar, Create Brilliant Characters, with Tom Bromley; 22 Mar-23 May, Getting Started: Beginners’ Fiction, with Helen Shipman; 19 April-13 June, Kickstart Your Novel, with Ayisha Malik; 21 Apr-8 Dec, Writing a Novel, with Tom Bromley and Sarah May; 22 Apr-8 Jul, Poetry Salon, with Maurice Riordan and Richard Scott; 26 Apr-28 Feb 22, Finish Your Draft, with Tom Bromley and Paul Kingsnorth.
academy@faber.co.uk
www.faberacademy.co.uk
Guardian Masterclasses
Ongoing series of courses led by highprofile tutors from the Guardian’s contact book, held at the newspaper’s King’s Cross offices. Currently online only
A packed programme is planned. Six-week course, 18 Feb-25 March, Writing your First Novel, with Ross Raisin masterclasses@theguardian.com