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If you feel the end of the year looming without having achieved your writing goals, don’t worry, it’s not too late. It’s just the first day of November and there are still 61 [...]

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 know it can be intimidating to take the first step towards writing that book you keep promising yourself you will. You might find yourself staring at a blank page imagining the first word you [...]

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 are berthed a line of narrowboats. Sandwiched [...]

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 [...]

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 is divided into the good [...]

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 needs [...]

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 weeks. We are [...]

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. On the face of it, that sounds [...]

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 resolutions in favour of an [...]

“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 are so vivid and particular [...]