Non-stop writing joy every goddamn day
The incredible Writers’ HQ community offers an inclusive, welcoming, supportive, step-by-step environment, away from tiresome literary snobbery and grammar pedantry, for the many writers out there who feel as though they don’t fit.
We know what you’re dealing with – the joys, the frustrations, the research rabbit holes, the endless urge to procrastinate. And we’re working on our stories right alongside you.
With thousands of WHQers all over the world, you can get writing, grow your skills, learn your craft, swap work for critique, swoon and flail, and be caught by other writers who just get it, 24 hours a day. Oh yeah – we put the mm in community!
- Weekly write alongs
- Monthly goal setting and troubleshooting
- Monthly online retreats
- Regular live masterclasses with guest authors
- Over 25 mammoth creative writing courses
- Always-on workshop library
- Flash Face Off and Flash Face Off Live
- Monthly festivals and challenges
Come on in for free!
That’s right. We’re enticing you in with some freebies so we can worm our way into your brain and show you how amazing the Writers’ HQ community is. Sneaky.
- The WHQ Guide to Productivity
- Write A Tiny Novel
- Writing project tracker
- Flash Face Off and Flash Face Off Live
- The Secret Retreat forum
Become a Glorious Writing Beats!
Fuck yes, you are!
- Daily accountability
- Writing project tracker
- Weekly write alongs
- Monthly goal setting and troubleshooting
- Monthly live masterclasses with guest authors
- Monthly online retreats
- Over 25 mammoth creative writing courses
- Always-on workshop library
- Flash Face Off, Flash Face Off Live and Introduction to Flash course and workshop
- Monthly festivals and challenges
- Glorious Writing Beast exclusive forum
Gift a membership
Treat your favourite writer to the best writing support
Write brilliant stories, yeet self-doubt into the sun, make friends with awesome writers, and create a deep, joyful writing practice.
At Writers’ HQ you can do all these glorious things:
Get writing
Procrastination-busting, word-writing, story-eating, tea-drinking, biscuit-dunking writing retreats, workshops, courses and general butt-kicking. Online and irl.
Stay writing
Daily accountability, weekly write alongs, monthly goal setting and troubleshooting, regular generative writing workshops and in-depth courses. We’ve got everything you need to get going, keep going, plot, edit, unpick, rebuild, and publish your stories.
Finish your story
WHQers are the most productive, supportive, story-writing, gif-sharing generous, loving bunch of writertypes anywhere ever, and together we’ll help you through.
Write with us in actual real life
People, not pixels!
Latest and greatest writerly workshops
A blundred bazillion creative writing courses
Start straight away. Work at your own pace. Share, learn and create with the best community of writers this side of the Internet.
Covering everything from how to get writing, writing a novel, writing short stories, and writing flash fiction.
Get me writing
Everything you need to kick your writerly butt into action and develop a writing practice that is joyful, sustainable, and all round bloody lovely.
Write a novel
It’s time to extract that novel from your veins. Start, plan, plot, write, edit. Fuck yeah!
Write short stories
Write flash fiction
Who’s awesome? We’re awesome!
Well. You’re awesome, actually. You do the hard work, we just provide the warm embrace of swearing and tea and pep.
After hanging around as a freebie member and completing the free courses, I was so convinced by the improvements to my writing – and amused by the emails! – I signed up for three months… I’m still here, months later! I’ve learnt so much, from courses like Plotstormers and The First Draft, and from fellow WHQers, I would rather give up cake and chocolate than let my membership lapse! Love you WHQ!
Jan M
Writers’ HQ has honestly been life changing for me! After doing the 14 Days to a Solid Writing Habit course, which gave me a great kick start, I have been doing Plotstormers II to help me edit my novel. How do I say this without swearing? Fuck it, it’s been sodding amazing! It’s helping me so much to edit my novel. I’ve also been doing the Flash Fiction course and a piece of mine is on the Welkin Prize shortlist!
Agnes H
I cannot imagine life without WHQ
I’ve been a subscriber since April 2019 and I now cannot imagine life without WHQ. It’s like my inner sanctum and I bang on about it to everyone all the time. They must get sick of me. In the past when I’ve had to knock other subscriptions on the head because of money, there was never any question of me doing the same for this wonderful organisation.
Lauren P
WHQ is fantastic! I did a free writing course with WHQ at the start of the pandemic and joined up straight after – since then I have had over twenty pieces published, been long and shortlisted in various competitions and won one at the beginning of this year – the tutors, and the encouragement of the forum members, are fantastic.
Claire
A wonderful community. Before I joined WHQ I never dreamed of submitting my work to magazines. Since becoming a paid-up member 5 months ago, I’ve had 6 flash fictions and 2 poems accepted for publication – entirely thanks to the inspiration and support of this wonderful community.
Sarah K
Join the most word-writing, tea-drinking, story-slinging, biscuit-dunking, productivity-boosting, super supportive writing community this side of the internet
Freebies
- Two creative writing courses
- Flash Face Off and Flash Face Off Live
- The Secret Retreat forum
- That's it
- If you want more you have to upgrade, sozzzz
- See you on the inside mwa mwa mwa
Glorious Writing Beasts
- Weekly write-alongs
- Monthly live masterclasses with guest authors
- Monthly Q&A support group
- Monthly online retreats
- Over 25 mammoth creative writing courses
- Always-on workshop library
- Flash Face Off, Flash Face Off Live and Introduction to Flash course and workshop
- Monthly festivals and challenges