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Hundreds of hours of creative writing courses covering everything from starting, middling, finishing and plotting.

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Free Creative Writing Courses and Workshops

Write the first word, then the next, then the next.

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Regular free courses to wake up and shake up your writing

Journaling with WHQ

A low pressure guide to super-chill writing

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Write, read and share brilliant flash fiction

Fantastic Course

Thoroughly excellent course. A guided tour of the first draft you thought you knew, with myriad exercises to ensure you end up knowing it better. Help to recognise its strengths, and strategies to deal with its weaknesses. Advice, support, and plain good sense. A variety of approaches, to suit different kinds of writers. By the end of the course, I was raring to go, and what’s more, I knew what I had to do to make my draft into the best book it could be.

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We’re writers too.
We understand how it works.

We’ve been helping writers love their writing since 2012

Writers’ HQ is run by Sarah and Jo and a badass team of hand-baked writers who believe that all stories – your stories – are important and need to be told.

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writers who get it

The incredible Writers’ HQ community offers an inclusive, welcoming, supportive, step-by-step, hand-holding environment, away from tiresome literary snobbery and grammar pedantry, for the many writers out there who feel as though they don’t fit.

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We can answer them! Preferably writing questions, but also questions about life, taxes, and cake.

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Getting it done ·

Troubleshoot Your Writing: Why Are You Stuck?

Fear not the stickage. Everyone hits a sticking point in their writing at some point. Hitting a sticking point does not = failure. Going through a writing drought does not mean you should give up. Realising your writing is riddled with problems does not mean it’s not redeemable. But before you can move past all…

Resist & Revolt

Accessible Submissions For All: An Interview With Banshee

As part of our Accessible Submissions For All campaign we’ve been interviewing literary journal editors and writing competition administrators to see the different ways fair,…

Story Foundations – Part 2: What is Plot?

Flash Face Off ·

Flash Face Off – 24th July

Wanna know what we’re doing? Clicky right here to find out how we Flash Face Off. The two opposing themes for this week’s Flash Face Off are: CIRCLES vs. SQUARES Use the prompts below and/or…

Character Emotions, Defence Mechanisms and Change

Getting it done ·

A Writers’ HQ Manifesto On Bad Language

At Writers' HQ, we often get angry messages telling us that we can't possibly be 'real' writers, or that we must not be very clever, because we swear, use slang and text speak, use bad…

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