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Maria Lewis: Crafting stories for any medium

In this workshop, Maria Lewis will discuss how to craft stories across a range of mediums, including tips and tricks to help you tell whatever story you’re interested in, whether that’s a novel, short story, novella, podcast, film, feature article, and more.

Dave Warner: Crime - developing outlines

In this interactive workshop, Dave Warner will introduce categories of crime-writing, along with its inspiration and approach. Then attendees will simultaneously develop two different styles of crime novel outlines with Dave, in a collective exercise with everyone free to toss ideas into the fire to form the bare bones of several crime novels.

Maggie Dent: Understanding the writing process

Have you ever wondered about the writing process, from beginning to end? This workshop will explore just that - what helps and what hinders, the why, the how, editing, publishing, and everything else you could ever think of. Come prepared with questions!

Emma Darragh: Story starters

This interactive workshop is designed to kickstart your creativity. By completing a series of timed writing exercises, you’ll discover new ideas and experiment with language, voice and form. You’ll take inspiration from your own life as well as from external stimuli, with writing exercises to support your learning.