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Welcome to this month’s newsletter Many of our community, it seems, have earmarked 2018 as their year for writing. We’ve had so many requests for help and support, we’ve decided to dedicate [...]

What would our fourth annual Venice Writing Retreat give you? That’s easy, if we quote one of our past participants, who called it “a life-changing experience”. It will certainly provide [...]

What do you need in order to write well? Think of your life: a constant round of tasks and duties. Too many things to fit in the day. And demands? Oh my goodness, let’s not even start. Everyone [...]

When Peter Benchley first visited Venice, he wrote to his editor at the New Yorker: “Streets full of water. Please advise”. Venice has both fascinated and repelled writers for centuries, and [...]

There’s a paradox to writing: it is at once an intensely solitary activity, and at the same time is dependent on the good opinion of a vast community of readers. And while, necessarily, [...]

  Welcome to this month’s newsletter! What we’ve been doing with you for the past ten years is talking to you about the stories you wish to tell. Life consists of “one damned thing [...]

So, just occasionally, when writing has become a burden – or perhaps, at that moment when you anticipate that it will become a burden –  here’s an idea… It was inspired by immediate experience. [...]

Trish and I have just spent six weeks slowly working our way down the Thames River in our narrowboat Patience. We’re on the Grand Union Canal now, moored up in Paddington Basin in the heart of [...]

We at Allaboutwriting are celebrating creativity. Through our offerings and our news this month, we are reaching out to like-minded souls who long for something more – for the imagination which [...]

Current and forthcoming courses and retreats Our Creative Writing Online Course kicked off on Tuesday – but it’s by no means too late to sign up for a rollicking ride through the hills and dales [...]

I struggled to get the hang of friendship, as a child.  Something would always shift: I would express a liking for the wrong band, or even the wrong hairband. And seemingly, without a word being [...]

This month we celebrate a variety of writers whose commitment and talent has earned them a place at South Africa’s literary table. Writers who’ve learned that it’s possible to master the craft of [...]