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  We can help you reach your writing goals with one of the wide array of courses and events we’re offering in July. But before the month even begins, we’ve scheduled a free screenwriting [...]

Find out everything you’ve always wanted to know about writing for the screen, whether for film or television, at our free screenwriting webinar. Ask Michele Rowe and Richard Beynon, two of South [...]

We’re tethered to a bollard on a jetty that sticks out into the centre of our lake here in Bedford. Across a stretch of water that we call Swan’s Way are berthed a line of narrowboats. Sandwiched [...]

Got a story to tell? Join All About Writing’s Jo-Anne Richards and Joanne Hichens, author of recently-released memoir, Death and the After Parties, for a virtual Saturday Writing Workshop [...]

This is a story about how a gauzy attachment to a stereotype was shattered by the facts. On our travels on the canals and rivers of England, we have encountered hundreds, perhaps thousands of [...]

Your book called. It asked us to tell you it misses you. Misses how you used to daydream about it, how you used to work on it. Remember when you promised you’d finish it and submit it to a [...]

Writing is rewriting. The first idea is not necessarily the best idea. Your protagonist must want something – badly. Writing is not the best way to prepare financially for old age. Writing is the [...]

This webinar will focus on memoir. You’ll set the agenda: we’ll be responding to your questions and discussing issues important to you relating to memoir writing. Join Joanne Hichens, author of [...]

How do writers improve? They write. They read. This is not contentious. It’s how writers have worked since the stylus was invented and the first papyrus scrolls hammered into existence. And they [...]

This June, we’ve got a buffet of courses and events for you to cherry-pick from. The month kicks off with our flagship Creative Writing Course, continues strong with a free memoir webinar [...]

All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2750 / £ 150 or a voucher to the same value to use on one of our courses or [...]