Category: Updates
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Transform your writing: Retreat, March 2025 (BOOKED OUT)
Fiction intensive: residential Escape to a place where we focus on craft, creative practice, and mastery. Welcome to our weekend writing retreat: Transform your writing. This exclusive experience is focused on story development, practical approaches and techniques for fiction projects, and enhancing your mastery of the key tools in our writers’ toolbox. The retreat is…
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Do crime: November 2024
One-day masterclass: Writing unforgettable crime fiction Crime fiction, in its many and diverse forms, is one of the most popular genres in the world. From The Woman in White to The Dry, blockbuster crime novels dominate bookselling, while every year thousands of new titles become somebody’s new favourite read. When a reader picks up a…
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How to build a heroine: September 2024
Modern fiction is filled with fabulous, feisty, funny girls and women making their way through the universe. How do writers imagine them and bring them to life on the page?
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Kick off!
I’m so pleased to announce this new venture, New Page Writing Retreats and Masterclasses. First cabs off the rank are one-day masterclasses: How to build a heroine (21 September 2024) Do crime: writing unforgettable crime fiction (16 November 2024). Then early next year, I’ll run my first weekend fiction intensive (dates to be confirmed, but…
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Welcome!
I’m delighted to announce a new series of classes and writing retreats: a chance for me to do what I love – teaching – on topics that I choose, and that I hope will be useful and interesting to you. If you’d like to keep in touch, or learn more about the writing retreats and…
