Creative and sensitive reading is a must-have addition to any writer’s toolkit. Learn how TS Eliot and Forward Prize-shortlisted poet, essayist and editor Will Harris draws inspiration and technique from the books that he loves. ‘Will Harris takes British poetry into new waters.’ This friendly online session is perfect for anyone who wants to use […]

Whether you’re new to writing or looking to take time out from a longer prose project, flash fiction takes a relatively short time to write and can give a great deal of satisfaction. It can be sharp, pithy, surprising, emotional, funny – and there is a growing market out there for this remarkable fictional form. […]

Emma Paterson from Aitken Alexander Associates represents writers across literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry – including Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, short story writer and Guardian columnist Chris Power, Sunday Times bestseller Otegha Uwagba, the infamous Sam Knight, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and Mary Jean Chan, an International Literature Showcase writer who […]

A unique workshop exploring the remarkable relationship between music and words. Join novelist and short story writer Sarah Bower and cellist Ingrid Perrin as they demonstrate how music can be used as inspiration for your writing. In this friendly, online group session you will: Listen to the Rondo from Purcell’s ‘Fairy Queen’, performed by Ingrid, […]