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You don’t have to spend 20 years learning to be the best writer you can be. Our flagship Creative Writing Course contains everything we wish we’d known when we were starting out as writers – [...]

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 […]

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. […]

Language is capable of making the subtlest of distinctions. In our quest to move the story along, we sometimes forget about this awesome power. We write as if the world […]

Our flagship Creative Writing Course kicks off on Saturday 10 April 2021. This comprehensive online creative writing course is designed to provide you with the skills and tools every writer […]

There is one last place available on our live Creative Writing Course starting on Monday 15 March. You’ll learn in real-time via Zoom on Monday and Thursday evenings for five […]

The blank page, the even blanker screen, can act as a profoundly inhibiting factor in the life of a writer. The blank page invites you to write… whatever you like. […]

Don’t panic. That’s the theme for the New Year. There was too much of that last year and it wasn’t productive. I hope that, this year, you’ve cast aside unattainable […]

“He was a gentleman with red whiskers who always went first through a doorway.” This is how Guy de Maupassant described a character in one of his stories. Its details […]

We’re in the mood for a bit of fun this weekend. We think it’ll be worth your while to join us on our jamboree which includes a range of special, […]

Ever wanted to write a memoir? Thought of telling your life story? Wondered how memoir writers find the courage, or how they craft a compelling story from their life experiences? […]

“Every human situation, every sort of meeting or conversation, is something you have read before or know by heart. But then here comes a story – maybe only a couple […]