You’ll explore shape and form and learn how a strong grasp of structure can help your stories flourish — making them polished, purposeful, and ready for submission.
Our 90-minute energising flash workshops offer a fast-paced introduction to new forms, practical ways to overcome creative blocks, and fresh motivation to get writing again.
Part of NCW Academy
Naomi Wood
Naomi Wood is the bestselling author of The Godless Boys, Mrs. Hemingway and The Hiding Game. As a novelist, her books have won a Jerwood Award, the British Library Hay Festival Prize, and been shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Historical Writers Golden Crown. Mrs. Hemingway was a Richard and Judy Bookclub pick in 2014 and a Chanel Bookclub pick in 2023. Her début story collection This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things was published in 2024 by Phoenix (Orion), Nagel und Kimche (Germany) and Morrow (US).
In 2023 she won the BBC National Short Story Prize with ‘Comorbidities’. Her short stories have also won the Desperate Literature Tbilisi Prize, and been shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, the Galley Beggar Press Prize, and a Society of Authors Prize. Her interests are complicated femininity and transgressive motherhood, and how these fit in the modern workplace. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
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Magic Systems with Bea Fitzgerald
Join Bea Fitzgerald and learn to design systems that raise the stakes, captivate readers, and feel seamlessly woven into your fantastical worlds.
Saturday 28 February
Exploding Archetypes with Rachel McCrum & Amélie Prévost
Join co-authors Rachel McCrum and Amélie Prévost, and meet other writers, for a workshop dedicated to collaboration and poetry.
Wednesday 18 March
Exploring Identity in Fiction with Nicolas Padamsee
In this workshop, you’ll explore this powerful theme in an engaging, thought-provoking, and morally nuanced way.
Saturday 28 March