Introduction to persuasive techniques in creative and commercial writing, looking at how language sells ideas, products and stories.

Explore how to adapt work between forms — prose to film, memoir to fiction, stage to screen — and what is gained or lost in each move.

Overview of writing for younger readers, from chapter books to young adult fiction, with attention to age range, tone and structure.

Writing for the very youngest readers, focusing on rhythm, sound, image and simple narrative patterns for shared reading.

Explore books aimed at early readers just beginning to move from picture-led to text-led stories, with strong characters and clear stakes.

Writing for children in the middle years of primary school, where humour, adventure and emotional realism all play a part.

Explore writing for new and mid-teens, with a focus on voice, conflict, romance, friendship and contemporary concerns.

Writing for older teenagers/young adults, looking at themes of independence, identity and transition into adult life.

Techniques for writing humour in fiction, drama and performance pieces, including timing, contrast and audience expectation.

Introduction to writing fantasy and speculative fiction, with a focus on world-building, rules, magic systems and reader immersion.

Working with recorded events and periods from history while crafting strong characters, stories and credible period detail.

Combined look at horror writing and how it reaches readers, touching on subgenres, fear mechanics and routes to publication.

Approaches to publishing and writing on the internet: blogs, web fiction, serials, social platforms and experimental forms.

Discussion of long-form creative writing — novels, extended memoir, major hybrid projects — with emphasis on stamina and structure.

Writing about hobbies, travel, work and other areas of nonfiction, balancing fact, voice and narrative shape.

A space to discuss and problem-solve your own creative project in a focused tutorial; may be booked when not listed elsewhere.

Close look at point of view, distance and perspective in creative writing, and how these choices affect readers’ experience.

Explore poetry, prose-poetry and flash fiction, focusing on compression, image, rhythm and subtext in very short pieces.

Introduction to writing romantic fiction and understanding the expectations of the romance market and its many subgenres.

Combined session on science fiction writing and developing a sustainable practice as a working writer.

Discussion of how readers co-create meaning, and how to factor the reader’s role into choices of form, voice and structure.

Combined session introducing relationship-driven fiction and how to give and receive constructive feedback in workshop settings.

Overview of crime fiction fundamentals with a practical look at revising your own work for clarity, pace and impact.

Focused discussion on making significant structural or tonal changes to a project that has already reached full or partial draft stage.

Practical tutorial on preparing query letters and submission packages for agents, publishers and other decision-makers.

Introduction to mixed-genre and mixed-medium writing, including projects that blend prose, script, image and other forms.

Key technical skills for preparing work professionally, from layout and consistency to basic copy-editing practice.

Seminar on preparing, structuring and delivering confident presentations, readings and talks about your work.

Discussion of rhythm in creative writing — from line breaks and punctuation to prose cadence and pacing.

Learn and establish an effective submissions routine to agents, publishers, magazines and other industry professionals.

Introduction to writing for comics and graphic novels, with a focus on panels, pacing and collaboration with artists.

Approaches to writing songs, lyrics and text that engages directly with rhythm, melody and musical structure.

Tutorial on writing for radio and audio formats, including sound-focused storytelling and voice-driven scenes.

Introduction to writing for games, with attention to branching narratives, player choice and world-building.

Key elements of screenwriting for film and television, including scene building, structure and visual storytelling.

Deep dive into building strong, memorable characters for screen projects.

Explore story development in screenwriting, from premise to plot and sequence.

A practical look at drafting processes for scripts, including outlines, treatments and revisions.

Techniques for revising screenplays and tightening scenes, dialogue and structure.

Module focused on correctly formatting scripts for industry submission and collaboration.

Overview of the submission process and basic aspects of getting a script produced for screen.

Introduction to writing for live performance, including theatrical conventions, dialogue, blocking and staging considerations.

Explore writing as an informal form of therapy and reset, using stage-writing exercises as a way to process experience.