No – beginners are welcome! There are no entry requirements to The Writing Nook. If you want to explore writing short stories, poetry or even a novel for the first time or the tenth time, this is the place for you. There are plenty of writers – including best-selling household names – who have no formal training in writing. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have a passion and creative instinct for it. Whether you’ve always dabbled in writing, you used to write but stopped or you’ve barely done it before but always wanted to, join us!

The Writing Nook will start on September 9th and finish on November 28th. (But we will have one final session, the Open Mic, on Tuesday, December 3rd.)

When you sign up, you'll receive the calendar invites to all of our calls.

All the calls will take place on Zoom. The opening welcome session will be on Monday 9th of September at 7 pm. And every week, we’ll have two Word Factory sessions on Tuesdays (7 am and 7 pm) followed by a Quill & Think, Gather & Read or Book Nook session on Thursdays at 7 pm. At the end of the programme, we’ll have an Open Mic session on Tuesday 3rd of December at 7 pm.

The monthly book club and journaling sessions will be recorded and shared with you to play back at any time. But the Word Factory and Gather & Read calls won’t be recorded.

No! Sharing your writing is like baring a little piece of your soul and I’ll never pressure you to read your work aloud to the group. There will be an opportunity during the Open Mic final session for you to read out your writing, listen to others and give/receive feedback. But this will be completely voluntary. And if you like, I can read out your writing on your behalf.

The Writing Nook is a fiction writing and reading community where you’ll have dedicated time to develop your writing, participate in book club sessions and connect with other writers and readers. But this is not a fiction writing course. You won’t receive lessons on writing or be given homework. This is a space to discover – or rediscover – the joy of writing fiction and be held accountable to writing and reading more and more often with a group of lovely people who want to do the same.

While this programme is geared more towards fiction, there’s no reason why you can’t use our sessions to work on your nonfiction writing. If you’re open to trying out some fiction writing now and then, great!

If you upgrade, you’ll receive a Writing & Reading Kit with a notebook, stationery and copies of all three books we’ll be reading for our book club, Book Nook. You’ll also receive written feedback on up to 10,000 words of your own work and a 1:1 call with me to review the feedback and discuss your writing.

That’s absolutely fine! The monthly Book Nook and Quill & Think sessions will be recorded for you to watch in your own time. And there will be three different sessions per week to give you flexibility.

In Book Nook, our monthly book club, we’ll read and discuss Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King, Sula by Toni Morrison and Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin.

On the standard membership, no. But if you upgrade to The Cosy Writing Nook, you'll receive copies of all 3 books we'll be reading in our monthly book club sessions along with other goodies, feedback on your writing and a 1:1 call.

Absolutely! The times listed are UK time so make sure you can attend the sessions based on your time zone.

The Writing Nook is a considered purchase so please make sure you have read everything on this page in detail to make sure this is the community for you before signing up.

But if you decide The Writing Nook isn’t for you after you've signed u, you can cancel at any time. If you paid the total fee upfront, you’ll be partially refunded based on how many sessions you have already attended or had access to through recordings. If you're spreading the cost, your payments will be stopped.