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October Creative Saturday Enjoy a bit of literary fun at our next creative writing workshop on 7 October 2017 Only three places available Be inspired by the cry of gulls as you release your [...]

We’ve been talking about conflict at a weekend workshop in what must be one of the least conflict-ridden towns in the United Kingdom. Stow-on-the-Wold is a lovely Cotswolds wool town, [...]

Have you always wanted to write – a novel, a short story, a memoir – but never got beyond the first few pages? You might have written the book you’ve always dreamed about, but know there’s [...]

  Upcoming courses Cape Town Creative Saturday, Muizenberg – 7 October Creative Writing Course, Online – starts 9 October Creative Writing Course, Cape Town and Johannesburg – starts 16 [...]

I’m now onto the sixteenth CJ Box novel which documents the adventures of his Wyoming game and fisheries warden, Joe Pickett. Why have I become so addicted to the series? Well, they’re well [...]

All About Writing celebrates its tenth anniversary this September, in the city which most symbolises how far we’ve come. Here we are, mentoring our writers in the most romantic writing venue in [...]

Upcoming courses Cape Town Creative Saturday, Muizenberg – 7 October Creative Writing Course, Online – starts 9 October Creative Writing Course, Cape Town and Johannesburg – starts 16 October [...]

We’ve been ensconced in the Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice for a few days now, spending our mornings talking to writers about their work, devising ways over hurdles (straight up and over) and through [...]

Write a scene which includes reference both to a tenth anniversary and to Venice. You could choose to set it in Venice, or mention it in conversation. Your characters might be in the process of [...]

Accolades where they’re due We’d like to congratulate the winners of the August competition, which challenged you to write a scene set on or around water. Our winner, who will receive a token [...]

Upcoming courses Cape Town Creative Saturday, Muizenberg – starts 7 October Creative Writing Course, Online – starts 9 October Creative Writing Course, Cape Town and Johannesburg – starts 16 [...]