Always felt you had a book inside you?

If you’re on this page because you’re interested in booking yourself  into a weekly workshop at my house in Shepton Montague (near Bruton, Somerset), here’s the low-down. I currently run two weekly workshops: a general one (suitable for all) on Thursday mornings, 9.30-1pm – currently full but you’re welcome to get in touch and put yourself on the waiting list; and one on Friday mornings, 9.30-1pm, which is for those with a work in progress (again, currently full, but do register your interest for when places open up). 

The workshops are lively and engaging and a lot of fun – expect to write, read out and learn about new aspects of the writing craft. One week we might look at how to write a really attention-grabbing first paragraph. Another week we’ll examine the pros and cons of a first- or third-person point-of-view (one of my favourites). Or we might explore why perhaps it’s not so important what your characters say as how they’re sitting (or leaping around, or propping themselves up against the mantlepiece) when they’re saying it…

You’ll be triggered to write short fragments during the workshops – pieces that you can go off and edit/expand at home (entirely optional – some people only write during the workshops and still produce whole novels!). Expect to be surprised and delighted by what you produce: something magical happens when 10 people bow their heads quietly together in a room…

What I can guarantee is that while you may write very well already, in these workshops your writing will move to a whole new level.  And your novel/memoir/don’t-yet-know-what-to-call-it-but-I’m-interested-to-see-where-it’s-going will, almost without you noticing, start to take shape.

A series of 10 workshops costs £400, payable up-front. If you can’t make a session, you can receive either a recording or an emailed workshop plan so that you can do the workshop in your own time. Groups are filled on a first-come, first-served basis and strictly limited to 1o participants.

Summer term 2023, Thursday morning workshops:

20 April

27th April 

4th May

11th May

18th May 

25th May 

1st June – half term, no workshop

8th June 

15th June

22nd June

29th June

 

Summer term 2023, Friday morning workshops:

21st April

28th April

5th May

12th May

19th May

26th May

2nd June – half term, no workshop 

9th June

16th June

23rd June

30th June