Host: Amanda Marples

Hands up who is neurodivergent and really needs some support with their writing? Who longs for a writing coach but is having enough trouble paying the gas bill? Here is a solution: low-cost, high-quality group mentoring.

Here's what to expect:

• Monthly meetups

• Small groups of no more than 5 writers

• Opportunity and dedicated space to bring your writing-related executive function issues (see below)

• Space to talk it through with other ND writers

• Access to the expertise of ND professional writer and mentor Amanda Marples (facilitating)

• Solutions

• Gentle accountability and goal-setting

What are writing-related executive function issues? (not an exhaustive list!)

• Time management

• Focus and concentration

• Motivation & procrastination

• Rejection sensitivity

• Planning and workload management

• Maintaining interest

• Managing boom-bust cycles of activity

• Making sense of feedback & understanding submission requirements

Bring your stuff ... and let's find a way through it together.

BOOK HERE

Host: Beverley Ward

Start your week as you mean to go on - as a writer! Set goals, measure progress and get the support of myself and other writers who know the ups and downs of the writing life.

We meet on Zoom at 9am every Monday.

BOOK HERE

Host: Anne Grange

If you are writing poetry but don't know any other poets, or if you just fancy a regular poetry check-in every two weeks, this group is for you! We will read and share work and give each other gentle and constructive feedback. We'll also do a writing exercise together, set ourselves poetry prompt challenges and talk about poetry.
Everyone is welcome, whether you've written volumes of poetry or are just dipping your toe in the poetry waters. It's just an hour - enough to kickstart your passion for poetry!

BOOK HERE

Facilitator: Amanda Marples

New online!

The first of a series of 6 online sessions for writers who are neurodivergent, this session is all about ... the science! What’s going on in the brain, and more importantly, what’s going on in the neurodivergent writer’s brain? In this first workshop you will learn how we are battling our own biology and how that shows up as “rejection sensitivity” and a really loud, often deeply unpleasant inner critic. This is your chance to have a good look at how this stuff might be derailing your writing, and find ways to overcome it (or at least turn the volume down a touch).

You do not need a diagnosis to attend these sessions.

BOOK HERE

Discount available for booking all 6 sessions.

Facilitator: Rosie Carnall

Creative Critique offers a different approach to feedback for writers. Based on philosophical enquiry methods, the process provides the opportunity to explore what meaning a reader finds in your writing. It's an interactive, interesting and affirming experience.

The structured process goes beyond opinions about word choice or sentence structure. It invites reflection on how the work lands with the reader, encouraging their broader responses on what they experience in your writing. This enables you to get a clearer idea about whether your writing intentions are matched by the reader experience.

In this workshop, we’ll warm-up together by listening to a passage of text and practising the method. Then you’ll spend time with other writers listening and responding to each other’s work using a structure that supports you to delve into the underlying themes in your work.

Bring a short prose passage (around 300 words i.e., first page) of your own writing to share. Take away some new insights on your writing and ideas to apply to self-critique in the future.

This kind of philosophising invites use of your creative, critical, collaborative and caring thinking to explore ideas together. Come ready to listen as well as speak.

BOOK HERE

Host: Beverley Ward

Start your week as you mean to go on - as a writer! Set goals, measure progress and get the support of myself and other writers who know the ups and downs of the writing life.

We meet on Zoom at 9am every Monday.

BOOK HERE

Host: Beverley Ward

Start your week as you mean to go on - as a writer! Set goals, measure progress and get the support of myself and other writers who know the ups and downs of the writing life.

We meet on Zoom at 9am every Monday.

BOOK HERE

Host: Anne Grange

If you are writing poetry but don't know any other poets, or if you just fancy a regular poetry check-in every two weeks, this group is for you! We will read and share work and give each other gentle and constructive feedback. We'll also do a writing exercise together, set ourselves poetry prompt challenges and talk about poetry.
Everyone is welcome, whether you've written volumes of poetry or are just dipping your toe in the poetry waters. It's just an hour - enough to kickstart your passion for poetry!

BOOK HERE

Facilitator: Rosie Carnall

Write from the Art is a fun and thought-provoking art-inspired ONLINE creative writing session.

We'll start by looking at an artwork together as the starting point for a series prompts and exercises to inspire your thinking and writing.

Whether you can’t remember the last time you picked up a pen or you’re a well-practiced scribbler, you’ll enjoy this friendly, stimulating approach to generating new writing. Join us to try out new ideas and write some sentences that only you can write.

Suitable for anyone who enjoys words in company - talking with them, exploring what they mean and writing them down.

To book, click here.

Host: Anne Grange

If you are writing poetry but don't know any other poets, or if you just fancy a regular poetry check-in every two weeks, this online group is for you! We will read and share work and give each other gentle and constructive feedback. We'll also do a writing exercise together, set ourselves poetry prompt challenges and talk about poetry.
Everyone is welcome, whether you've written volumes of poetry or are just dipping your toe in the poetry waters. It's just an hour - enough to kickstart your passion for poetry!

BOOK HERE