This 8-week, in-person course will set you on the journey of writing memoir. In a creative and supportive environment, Writing Memoir will offer you methods of accessing memories and recognising their inherent shape, finding your writing voice, bringing the details to life, creating the lived reality of your experience on the page and finding its structure.

This 8-week, in-person course will set you on the journey of writing memoir. In a creative and supportive environment, Writing Memoir will offer you methods of accessing memories and recognising their inherent shape, finding your writing voice, bringing the details to life, creating the lived reality of your experience on the page and finding its structure.

After reading your full manuscript and providing you with a reader’s report, author and former agent Nell Pierce will lead you through the process of re-drafting your novel, by focusing on key ideas and strategies from plotting to characterisation and style. Over six monthly sessions, you’ll workshop your re-drafts and stress-test the decisions you’ve made, exploring what works and what could be made stronger in your novel.

In this special free interactive information session, join our tutors from around the country as they discuss what to expect from their courses and how to best prepare your scholarship application.

Crime fiction can be as much a mystery to writers as it is to readers. While the reader tries to figure out ‘Whodunnit?’, the aspiring writer might ask ‘Howdunnit?’ In this 8-week, online program, crime author Ashley Kalagian Blunt will reveal exactly how she does it in her popular novels. This course will take you through the fundamentals of crime fiction, while affording you space to develop your own craft.

Over the course of six months, you’ll submit newly written or revised material for constructive feedback from fellow Writing a Novel graduates and your tutor. Between fortnightly workshop sessions, you’ll have access to our zoom channel for a “shut up and write” session with your peers, where you can write material for your next workshop session and maximize the value of the bi-weekly workshops.

For emerging fantasy, science fiction and horror novelists ready to dive in and commit to completing a novel, this rigorous course will guide you through the process of planning, applying essential skills in writing (and reading) to the specialised art of speculative fiction, as well as establishing a dedicated writing practice toward completion of your project.

This intensive, year-long program will assist you in completing a finished manuscript draft, looking critically at a wide range of forms and subjects, designed to accommodate any type of nonfiction project: memoir, history, essay collection, investigative study, immersive explorations of other lives and situations, and experimental work.

For poets ready to shape and refine a full-length collection, this intensive course with Sarah Day will guide you through the process of assembling and refining your poetry collection, while deepening your craft and sustaining a committed writing practice.

For emerging novelists ready to dive in and make the commitment to complete a full manuscript, this intensive, online course will guide you through the process of imagining, crafting and polishing your novel, as well as establishing a dedicated writing practice.

For emerging novelists ready to dive in and make the commitment to complete a full manuscript, this intensive, in-person course will guide you through the process of imagining, crafting and polishing your novel, as well as establishing a dedicated writing practice.

For emerging novelists ready to dive in and make the commitment to complete a full manuscript, this intensive, in-person course will guide you through the process of imagining, crafting and polishing your novel, as well as establishing a dedicated writing practice.

For emerging crime writers ready to dive in and commit to completing a novel, this rigorous course will guide you through the process of planning and crafting your novel, as well as establishing a dedicated writing practice geared towards the completion of your project.

Adapting a Novel for the Screen is an eight-week, online course led by Anthony Mullins (Beyond the Hero’s Journey) for novelists who are ready to learn the foundations of screen adaptation.

Project plan your manuscript with one-on-one consultations with a leading writer.

You will be paired with a leading author for a series of fortnightly one-on-one consultation sessions to discuss your work, and help you negotiate the roadblocks and challenges you might be facing.