Anna O’Steele, writing as Anna Mansell, has published several novels, How to Mend a Broken Heart, The Lost Wife, I Wanted to Tell You, Her Best Friend’s Secret, The Man I Loved Before, and What We Leave Behind. Her most recent release, writing as Lottie Brook, is Cheap Dates (HarperCollins). We’re delighted she’s running a writing romance workshop in November, so we asked her to tell us more about her writing.

The second Complete Fabrication Short Story Challenge is coming soon. If you’re looking for a new way to develop your short-story skills, could this course be what you need?

New associate at the Writers Workshop Gavin Extence shares with us what got him started and keeps him going as a novelist, as well as what our members can expect from his new novel-writing classes … plus a few tips for Novel Slam hopefuls this Friday!

Jools’s workshop on October 17th will focus on world-building in fantasy fiction. We asked Jools to tell us a bit more about what world-building is and what makes an engaging fantasy world.

The Sheffield Short Story Competition 2024 is now open, and you’ve got till September 30th to enter. Our very own Beverley Ward, one of the judges last year, gives her thoughts about what makes a good entry.

It’s summer, so it must be time to submit! If you’ve got some writing to share with the world, we’re here to help you. Find out more here.

In our July programme, Clare Jenkins is offering an introduction to travel writing. Even if you’re not travelling far this summer, why not use your holiday as inspiration to write? Find out about Clare’s class and her approach to travel writing in this blog post.

The Writers Workshop is excited to launch PEN PUSHERS, a workplace initiative that supports employees’ wellbeing and their employers’ community engagement programmes while also raising money for the Writers Workshop. Do you know a company that might be interested? Read on!

Developing Style is a new series of craft classes starting Saturday, April 20th, led by professional editor Lorna Partington. Here's what she has to say about the series and the first class.

In the final post in our mini series about pitching at Novel Slam, joint winner Lorna Partington shares her thoughts about how to make the most of the pitching opportunity.

Kate Fox is our next guest at Sounds About Write and we couldn’t be more thrilled to host her at Sheffield Plate on Thursday 16th November. She’ll be performing some poems and talking about her eclectic writing career as a neurodiverse stand-up and stand-out poet, broadcaster and performer. In advance of the evening., we asked Kate to tell us a bit more about her work. Read on to find out why and how she wrote a poet about author, Adam Farrer’s mum!

Jane Croft was joint winner at this year’s Off the Shelf Novel Slam pitching contest. In the second post in the mini series featuring the winners, Jane tells us about her project and top tips for pitching success.

Pitching to a room full of people can be daunting indeed! But on Friday October 13, sixteen brave souls did just that at Novel Slam, the annual pitching contest held as part of the Off the Shelf lit fest. In this miniseries of blogs, we questioned the three winners to discover the secrets of their success.

Meet Rachel Guilford, member of The Writers Workshop.

Anna Caig is offering a new online course for you to work through at your own pace, Marketing for writers - the fundamentals, to all Writers Workshop members who sign up before the end of December. This includes existing WW members and new sign-ups.