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Courses lasting 1–5 days

Courses lasting 1–5 days (29)

Crime, Fiction Development, Novel Writing

Start Your Crime Novel in Five Days – 21 July 2025

Want to learn the art and craft of writing a murder mystery? Start writing your crime novel with expert guidance from novelist Margie Orford.

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Starting out

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London

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1-5 days

Tutors

Margie Orford

Start Date

Monday 21 Jul 2025

£595
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Notebook, pen, headphones, phone, book and coffee on a table
Fiction Development

Start to Write Audio Drama

Want to tell stories for podcasts or radio? Discover how to create compelling audio drama in this one-day intensive course for beginners.

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Starting out

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London

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1-5 days

Tutors

Caroline Raphael

Start Date

Saturday 26 Jul 2025

£100
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Fiction Development

Start to Write

A no-excuses, let’s-get-going, beginners' creative writing course to kickstart your writing life.

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Starting out

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London

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1-5 days

Tutors

Richard Skinner

Start Date

Saturday 26 Jul 2025

3 more start dates available

£100
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Poetry

Start to Write Poetry

Kickstart your writing life with a specially designed day of learning, writing and discussion from the home of British poetry.

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Starting out

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London

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1-5 days

Tutors

Richard Scott

Start Date

Saturday 26 Jul 2025

3 more start dates available

£75
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Fiction Development, Novel Writing

Start to Write

A no-excuses, let’s-get-going, beginners' creative writing course to kickstart your writing life.

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Starting out

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Online

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1-5 days

Tutors

Marcel Theroux

Start Date

Saturday 26 Jul 2025

5 more start dates available

£100
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Poetry

Start to Write Poetry

Kickstart your writing life with a specially designed day of learning, writing and discussion from the home of British poetry.

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Starting out

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Online

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1-5 days

Tutors

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Start Date

Saturday 26 Jul 2025

2 more start dates available

£75
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Writing the Body – 28 July 2025
Fiction Development

Writing the Body

Step into the art of writing the body in this immersive week-long course. Explore embodiment, sensation and discover how to translate physical experience into powerful prose.

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Improving

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London

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1-5 days

Tutors

Jessica Andrews

Start Date

Monday 28 Jul 2025

£595
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Fiction Development, Non-fiction

Writing Lives

Life writing is perhaps the most exciting and broadest literary genre of our times – spend a week discovering how you can work within the form to tell your story of a life.

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Improving

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London

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1-5 days

Tutors

Richard Skinner

Start Date

Monday 04 Aug 2025

£595
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