All these events are online and accessible to all.
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View all our online events on Eventbrite here (excluding Monday Motivation and ZoomRooms)
Write Yourself Calm - life writing workshop (online)
Facilitator: Anne Grange
This workshop will be run in the Writers Workshop in Orchard Square, Sheffield, and also online on Zoom as a hybrid session.
The start of the year is a good time to capture some calm memories to look back on when we most need them. Using photos, objects and sounds as prompts, we'll remember moments of serenity and put them down in words so you'll always be able to think about them.
If you are only just starting writing creatively, this workshop will help your imagination to flourish. By the end of the workshop, you will have several short pieces of writing you can develop further.
We'll be trying out a series of prompts and exercises intended to spark your creativity - and to help you to reach your most tranquil memories. The session will be fun, interactive, and sensitive to everyone's needs.
Write from the Art
Host: 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 of themed 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.
Rosie Carnall also runs monthly Sharing the View: Philosophy in the Gallery sessions at the Graves Gallery, Sheffield.
Monday Motivation
Start the week as you mean to go on by setting goals, working through blocks and barriers and discussing your writing conundrums with writing coach, Beverley Ward, and other writers.
Monday Motivation is open to anyone but free to Gold members of The Writers Workshop (membership includes a weekly bulletin too!)
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 11.00am-12.30pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Group Mentoring for Neurodivergent Writers
Facilitator: 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 meet-ups (in-person also available)
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
Herding Cats Poetry Meetup
Facilitator: 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 have 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!
I will email you details of the Zoom meeting directly, as well as the prompt for this week's session.
Monday Motivation
Start the week as you mean to go on by setting goals, working through blocks and barriers and discussing your writing conundrums with writing coach, Beverley Ward, and other writers.
Monday Motivation is open to anyone but free to Gold members of The Writers Workshop (membership includes a weekly bulletin too!)
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 11.00am-12.30pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Pen Pushers
Facilitator: Lorna Partington
LEVEL: New, Emerging or Developing writers
A regular creative space to explore your imagination or generate new story ideas.
Taking place online (via Zoom) once a month, Pen Pushers is an intensive hour of creative-writing improvisation that uses theme-based prompts to spark your imagination and get the ink flowing. The use of pen and paper is strongly encouraged because handwriting gets us into a different headspace than typing, but you can use whatever writing tool is most appropriate to you.
Each session will include several short, focused writing exercises where we can explore characters, situations, places and ideas. Hopefully, these exercises will open the doors to worlds you can explore more fully in your own time.
Monday Motivation
Start the week as you mean to go on by setting goals, working through blocks and barriers and discussing your writing conundrums with writing coach, Beverley Ward, and other writers.
Monday Motivation is open to anyone but free to Gold members of The Writers Workshop (membership includes a weekly bulletin too!)
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 11.00am-12.30pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Herding Cats Poetry Meetup
Facilitator: 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 have 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!
I will email you details of the Zoom meeting directly, as well as the prompt for this week's session.
Monday Motivation
Start the week as you mean to go on by setting goals, working through blocks and barriers and discussing your writing conundrums with writing coach, Beverley Ward, and other writers.
Monday Motivation is open to anyone but free to Gold members of The Writers Workshop (membership includes a weekly bulletin too!)
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 11.00am-12.30pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 11.00am-12.30pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Monday Motivation
Start the week as you mean to go on by setting goals, working through blocks and barriers and discussing your writing conundrums with writing coach, Beverley Ward, and other writers.
Monday Motivation is open to anyone but free to Gold members of The Writers Workshop (membership includes a weekly bulletin too!)
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 11.00am-12.30pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Monday Motivation
Start the week as you mean to go on by setting goals, working through blocks and barriers and discussing your writing conundrums with writing coach, Beverley Ward, and other writers.
Monday Motivation is open to anyone but free to Gold members of The Writers Workshop (membership includes a weekly bulletin too!)
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 11.00am-12.30pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Herding Cats Poetry Meetup - Festive Special
Facilitator: 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 have 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!
I will email you details of the Zoom meeting directly, as well as the prompt for this week's session.
Monday Motivation
Start the week as you mean to go on by setting goals, working through blocks and barriers and discussing your writing conundrums with writing coach, Beverley Ward, and other writers.
Monday Motivation is open to anyone but free to Gold members of The Writers Workshop (membership includes a weekly bulletin too!)
Pen Pushers
Facilitator: Lorna Partington
LEVEL: New, Emerging or Developing writers
A regular creative space to explore your imagination or generate new story ideas.
Taking place online (via Zoom) once a month, Pen Pushers is an intensive hour of creative-writing improvisation that uses theme-based prompts to spark your imagination and get the ink flowing. The use of pen and paper is strongly encouraged because handwriting gets us into a different headspace than typing, but you can use whatever writing tool is most appropriate to you.
Each session will include several short, focused writing exercises where we can explore characters, situations, places and ideas. Hopefully, these exercises will open the doors to worlds you can explore more fully in your own time.
Group Mentoring for Neurodivergent Writers
Facilitator: 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 meet-ups (in-person also available)
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
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 11.00am-12.30pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Monday Motivation
Start the week as you mean to go on by setting goals, working through blocks and barriers and discussing your writing conundrums with writing coach, Beverley Ward, and other writers.
Monday Motivation is open to anyone but free to Gold members of The Writers Workshop (membership includes a weekly bulletin too!)
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 11.00am-12.30pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Monday Motivation
Start the week as you mean to go on by setting goals, working through blocks and barriers and discussing your writing conundrums with writing coach, Beverley Ward, and other writers.
Monday Motivation is open to anyone but free to Gold members of The Writers Workshop (membership includes a weekly bulletin too!)
Write from the Art
Host: 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 of themed 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.
Rosie Carnall also runs monthly Sharing the View: Philosophy in the Gallery sessions at the Graves Gallery, Sheffield.
Herding Cats Poetry Meetup
Facilitator: 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 have 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!
I will email you details of the Zoom meeting directly, as well as the prompt for this week's session.
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 10.45am-12.15pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Monday Motivation
Start the week as you mean to go on by setting goals, working through blocks and barriers and discussing your writing conundrums with writing coach, Beverley Ward, and other writers.
Monday Motivation is open to anyone but free to Gold members of The Writers Workshop (membership includes a weekly bulletin too!)
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 11.00am-12.30pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Monday Motivation
Start the week as you mean to go on by setting goals, working through blocks and barriers and discussing your writing conundrums with writing coach, Beverley Ward, and other writers.
Monday Motivation is open to anyone but free to Gold members of The Writers Workshop (membership includes a weekly bulletin too!)
*NEW* Pen Pushers
Facilitator: Lorna Partington
LEVEL: New, Emerging or Developing writers
A regular creative space to explore your imagination or generate new story ideas.
Taking place online (via Zoom) once a month, Pen Pushers is an intensive hour of creative-writing improvisation that uses theme-based prompts to spark your imagination and get the ink flowing. The use of pen and paper is strongly encouraged because handwriting gets us into a different headspace than typing, but you can use whatever writing tool is most appropriate to you.
Each session will include several short, focused writing exercises where we can explore characters, situations, places and ideas. Hopefully, these exercises will open the doors to worlds you can explore more fully in your own time.
Herding Cats Poetry Meetup
Facilitator: 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 have 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!
I will email you details of the Zoom meeting directly, as well as the prompt for this week's session.
Group Mentoring for Neurodivergent Writers
Facilitator: 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 meet-ups (in-person also available)
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
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 10.45am-12.15pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Book Get Writing online here
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 11.00am-12.30pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Monday Motivation
Start the week as you mean to go on by setting goals, working through blocks and barriers and discussing your writing conundrums with writing coach, Beverley Ward, and other writers.
Monday Motivation is open to anyone but free to Gold members of The Writers Workshop (membership includes a weekly bulletin too!)
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 11.00am-12.30pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Monday Motivation
Start the week as you mean to go on by setting goals, working through blocks and barriers and discussing your writing conundrums with writing coach, Beverley Ward, and other writers.
Monday Motivation is open to anyone but free to Gold members of The Writers Workshop (membership includes a weekly bulletin too!)
Write from the Art
Host: 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 of themed 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.
Rosie Carnall also runs monthly Sharing the View: Philosophy in the Gallery sessions at the Graves Gallery, Sheffield.
Herding Cats Poetry Meetup - Halloween Special!
Facilitator: 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 have 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!
I will email you details of the Zoom meeting directly, as well as the prompt for this week's session.
I have created this Halloween special version of Herding Cats - so please bring along spooky poems written by yourself or another poet, and prepare for a Halloween-themed prompt to get scribbling during the session.
Monday Motivation
Start the week as you mean to go on by setting goals, working through blocks and barriers and discussing your writing conundrums with writing coach, Beverley Ward, and other writers.
Monday Motivation is open to anyone but free to Gold members of The Writers Workshop (membership includes a weekly bulletin too!)
Group Mentoring for Neurodivergent Writers
Facilitator: 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 meet-ups (in-person also available)
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
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 10.45am-12.15pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)
Monday Motivation
Start the week as you mean to go on by setting goals, working through blocks and barriers and discussing your writing conundrums with writing coach, Beverley Ward, and other writers.
Monday Motivation is open to anyone but free to Gold members of The Writers Workshop (membership includes a weekly bulletin too!)
*NEW* Pen Pushers
Facilitator: Lorna Partington
LEVEL: New, Emerging or Developing writers
A regular creative space to explore your imagination or generate new story ideas.
Taking place online (via Zoom) once a month, Pen Pushers is an intensive hour of creative-writing improvisation that uses theme-based prompts to spark your imagination and get the ink flowing. The use of pen and paper is strongly encouraged because handwriting gets us into a different headspace than typing, but you can use whatever writing tool is most appropriate to you.
Each session will include several short, focused writing exercises where we can explore characters, situations, places and ideas. Hopefully, these exercises will open the doors to worlds you can explore more fully in your own time.
Get Writing Online
Friendly, supportive writing workshops for writers at all stages of their writing journeys. Push-ups for your writing muscles, a play date for your inner child, a chance to exorcise your demons or just plain magic.
You’ll be guided through a series of themed writing exercises to generate new writing in the company of other writers. You can write in whatever genre and for whatever purpose suits you. Expect fun, laughter, friendship and solidarity as side effects.
Online on Mondays 10.45am-12.15pm
(Also available in-person at The Writers Workshop, Wednesdays 11am-1pm)