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Writing is a serious business, wouldn’t you say? It requires that you shed your defences and dig down deep to mine seams of memory and emotion. It requires that you attempt the virtually [...]

For obvious reasons, we usually spend a great deal of time thinking about the protagonist of our stories. He or she is unambiguously our Hero. But we don’t spend as much time as we should on the [...]

Writers observe. Their observations serve as the foundations on which characters are built and stories developed. We’re in Venice at the moment on our annual retreat – rudely interrupted by Covid [...]

This is your last chance to take advantage of our early bird specials of less 20% for either our real-time Creative Writing Course or our online Creative Writing Course. The offer ends at [...]

We’re delighted to announce the dates for our Stow-on-the-Wold Writing Weekend. We invite you to join us to explore the mysteries and the craft of creating story with a group of like-minded [...]

Once in a while, when I have the time, I allow myself the luxury of writing an extremely abbreviated Monday Motivation. I was trawling through old notes of mine and came across a short and [...]

“So who was Alan? Is he your cousin, or your brother-in-Law?” Laura said, clearly perplexed. “Neither,” I said. “He was my second cousin. Thomas’s son.” “Was? Won’t he be at the lunch on Sunday?” [...]

All About Writing’s latest flash fiction 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 [...]